Antoine Wiertz

1806 — 1865

Belgian painter (1806-1865)

Antoine Joseph Wiertz was a Belgian painter, sculptor, lithographer and art writer. He is known for his religious, historical, allegorical works, and portraits. An eccentric figure, he was originally much influenced by the works of Peter Paul Rubens and Michelangelo. Some of his works are erotic and macabre and presage Belgian Symbolism. While snubbed by contemporary art critics, he enjoyed the support of the new Belgian state, which, in return for his paintings, assisted him in building his personal studio and home in Brussels, where the artist worked on his art and writings as a recluse.

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Antoine Wiertz

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A Giant of the Earth

Constant van den Nest, Secretary of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

One second after the death

Rosine at her Dressing Table

Sketch

Auguste Blanqui

portrait d'Étienne Méhul

The Greeks and the Trojans Fighting over the Body of Patroclus

The Philosopher

Allegory with Skull

Autoportrait à l'âge de dix-huit ans

2 girls at a window

The Greeks and the Trojans Fighting over the Body of Patroclus

Esmeralda

Quasimodo

The Angel of Evil

The wait

Two Young Girls or The Beautiful Rosine

St. Cecilia

Hunger, Madness, Crime (or Famine, Madness, Crime)

The Reader of Novels

The Premature Burial

The Suicide

Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head

Self-portrait of the artist in his studio attire

Coquette Dress (The Devil's Mirror)

Young sorceress

Cannonfodder

Portrait of Maria Mertens

The rosebud

Rosine à sa toilette

The Devil Carrying Off One of the Damned