Meissonier inspired by Giorgione?

or: Inspired By(?) #9

Jean Louis Ernest  Meissonier ~ Un Homme de Geurre - 1857 oil on panel  15 3/4 x 11 1/4in.

Giorgione ~ Madonna and Child with Saints Liberale and Francis (The Castelfranco Madonna) 1505

St. John inspired by Leighton?

or: Inspired By(?) #8

Was J. Allen St. John inspired by Lord Frederic Leighton?

Who would dare doubt‽

Rockwell inspired by Vibert?

or: Inspired By(?) #7

Was Norman Rockwell inspired by J.G. Vibert?

Let us check the list: fat man, globe, magnifying glass, skull cap, red outfit… coincidence, I think not!

Frazetta inspired by Dalmonte?

or: Inspired By(?) #6

Was Frank Frazetta inspired by Luigi Dalmonte's Wolber bicycle tire ad?

Probably not,

but who knows?

The Poet and the Muse

Inspired By(?) #6 or: Pyle inspired by …Moreau? …Delaunay?  …Chassériau?  …Leighton? …Hokusai‽

Howard Pyle

A young man (a poet?) embracing his elusive muse (personified by a mermaid) for the final time?

"And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body, 

Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind." ~ Cream, Tales Of Brave Ulysses

Howard Pyle - The Mermaid, 1910

Gustave Moreau

Hesiod (a poet) and the muse, no mermaid but a Phrygian cap!

Gustave Moreau - Hésiode et la Muse, 1857

See also ~ https://picasaweb.google.com/104843871720362761374/GustaveMoreau18261898

Phrygian cap

Jules-Elie Delaunay

A poet but no muse.

Sappho Kissing Her Lyre by Jules-Elie Delaunay

Théodore Chassériau

A poet and his muse, but again not a mermaid.

Hero et Leandre, also known as Le Poete et la Sirene, 1841

See also ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_and_Daphne

Théodore Chassériau, Apollo and Daphne

Frederic Leighton

A mermaid and a fisherman, hmm… who is perhaps also a poet?

The Mermaid (The Fisherman and the Syren). (From a ballad by Goethe.) (26½ × 18½ in.) R.A.

Shown in 1858 at the Royal Academy, and again in the 1897 retrospective exhibition, was first entitled The Fisherman and Syren, and afterwards The Mermaid; it is a composition of two small full-length figures, a mermaid clasping a fisherman round the neck. The subject is taken from a ballad by Goethe:

"Half drew she him,

Half sunk he in,

And never more was seen."

Hokusai

WHATEVER.

http://www.delart.org/collections/howard_pyle/pyles_inspiration_mermaid.html

Inspired By(?) #5

or: Pyle inspired by de Neuville?

The Attack upon the Chew House, 1898 - Howard Pyle 1912-92 

Two days after Howard Pyle died, muralist Edwin Howland Blashfield eulogized him in a letter to their mutual friend, architect Cass Gilbert: 

Nov 11 1911

Dear Mr Gilbert

I was shocked to hear of Howard Pyle’s death and very very sorry too for I think he had before him years of work and I believe that his European trip would have put even more of interest into his beautiful talent. His canvas in the State Capitol of Minnesota is the finest battle-piece I’ve ever seen except that of the Bourget by De Neuville (which latter depends largely on its episodical quality).

His death is a very great loss 

Yours

Edwin H Blashfield

I wish I had known him better

[The letter comes from the Cass Gilbert Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.]

Le Bourget, 30 octobre 1870, 1873 - Alphonse Marie de Neuville (1835-1885)

For more on the Pyle ~ http://howardpyle.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-hope-sometime-for-you-to-see-original.html

Inspired By(?) #4

or: Pyle inspired by Dupré?

Salt and Pepper "The Apple of Contentment", Howard Pyle

THE GOOSE GIRL, 64.7 by 54.2 cm - JULIEN DUPRÉ

strike 1~ peasant girl

strike 2~ wearing sabots

strike 3~ knitting

strike 4~ tending geese

Out!!!! …what do you think?

Inspired By(?) #3

or: Gurney inspired by Dillon / Frère / Corrodi?

James Gurney - "Ebulon"

This post was inspired by this one~ http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/01/visually-similar.html

Frank Dillon / Charles Théodore Frère / Hermann David Solomon Corrodi

Inspired By(?) #2

or: Pyle inspired by Meissonier?

Howard Pyle - "The End (of the game of cards)" - 1903

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier - "The End of the Game of Cards" - 1865

Inspired By(?) #1

  For the blog entry, "Swipe Spot #1", I wrote, "Often an artist will swipe/quote from another, either as homage, parody, necessity of purpose, or lack of imagination.".

  Now, I put to you that there is a variation of the traditional swipe, one whose origin is often more nebulous. One for which your suspicions are righteous, though the perpetrator and their lackeys may forever feign. One that on first glance seems wholly original, and could indeed be just that, for any similarity may simply stem from plowing the same well trodden field (as if thats any better). This swipe's bastard shall be known as 'Inspired By(question mark)', for we may never know! (we're just askin')

Inspired By(?) #1

or: Rockwell inspired by Tanner?

Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) - "The Banjo Lesson" 1893

Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859 – 1937) student of Eakins, Laurens & Constant

Norman Rockwell "The Banjo Player" - 1926

Norman Rockwell (1894 – 1978) student of Fogarty, Du Mond, and Bridgman

1926 Pratt & Lambert "61" Floor Varnish ad Norman Rockwell

a related work?

Uncle Remus - Norman Rockwell - oil and charcoal on board, 20 x 21"