Artists in the Spotlight: William Etty
The Englishman William Etty became famous in his homeland through provocative nude paintings, which were considered immoral and indecent in their time. Repeatedly, his pictures caused a scandal and provoked strongly negative reactions from the bourgeois public. His paintings showed scenes from classical mythology whose protagonists were naked as in "The Judgement of Paris" or "Diana standing at a waterfall".
Etty was born as the son of a London baker and began training as a draughtsman at the age of eleven, some of which he received from his uncle, who was also a painter. When Etty showed his painting "Amor and Psyche" to the painter John Opie, the latter suggested him for the Royal Academy of Arts, where he was a student and later a teacher. Etty was often accused of painting too offensive pictures and thus not behaving adequately according to the customs of the Royal Academy. Etty, on the other hand, thought he was an admirer of beauty who never sought to seduce or do anything immoral. The beauty of a woman longed for her naked image. Unveiled, female innocence was only all the more visible. "To the pure in heart, all things are pure."
.jpg "Cupid and Psyche")
.jpg "Female nude seen from the back, c.1835-40")
.jpg "Study of a Head")
.jpg "A letter from William Etty, 17 January 1844 1904")
.jpg "Cupid and Psyche")
.jpg "A Persian Warrior")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-1051946).jpg "The Duett, from the picture in the Vernon Gallery (engraving)")
.jpg "Nude Model Reclining")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-1051948).jpg "The Dangerous Playmate, from the picture in the Vernon Gallery (engraving)")
.jpg "Study for a Figure Composition - Two Female Nudes")
.jpg "The Repentant Prodigals Return to his Father")
.jpg "Seated Male Nude, Head resting against Hand, left Foot resting on Block")
.jpg "Reclining Male Nude, raised right Knee, 1815-45")
.jpg "Three standing Female Nudes")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059854).jpg "A Persian Warrior, from the picture in the Vernon Gallery (engraving)")
.jpg "Two standing Female Nudes")
.jpg "The Penitent Magdalen")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055135).jpg "The Brides of Venice, from the picture in the Vernon Gallery (engraving)")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055136).jpg "The Disciple, from the picture in the Vernon Gallery (engraving)")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-1051108).jpg "Youth and Pleasure, from the picture in the Vernon Gallery (engraving)")
.jpg "Study of a Draped Nude")
.jpg "Male nude lying down, raised left knee, 1815-45")
.jpg "Geography of Plants in Tropical Countries, A Study of the Andes, drawn by Schoenberger and Turpin, printed by Langlois, Paris")
.jpg "The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog")
.jpg "Starry Night")
.jpg "Young Hare")
.jpg "The Kiss")
.jpg "Sitting woman with raised knee")
.jpg "Almond Blossom")
.jpg "Yellow Red Blue")
.jpg "Ms 69 f.48r Nativity, from the Besançon Book of Hours")
.jpg "The Dream of the Fishermans Wife")
.jpg "The Garden of Earthly Delights")
.jpg "The Magpie")
.jpg "Woman with Flag, Mexico City, 1928")
.jpg "The Ghost of Perianders Wife")
.jpg "Sioux evening meal, Traverse des Sioux, 20th July 1851")
 from Le Tour du Monde published in Paris 1860s - (MeisterDrucke-81923).jpg "Wheelbarrow Taxi in the 1850s, China, engraved by Alfred Louis Sargent (b.1828) from Le Tour du Monde, published in Paris, 1860s")
 - (MeisterDrucke-682963).jpg "Alley of the Tombs (The Alyscamps)")
.jpg "The toilet of the bather")
.jpg "Northern Gate and Library, from King Johns Tower, 1895")
.jpg "Anne-Marie de Bosmelet, Duchess of La Force, 1714")
_McKenney_-_Do-Hon-Go_An_Osage_Woman_-_(MeisterDrucke-909917).jpg "Do-Hon-Go, An Osage Woman")
.jpg "Portrait of Peter the Great on his Death-Bed")
.jpg "The Thames near Weybridge, Surrey, England, 1924-1926")
.jpg "Chemnitz factories")
.jpg "Among the London Anarchists, the Treasury Bench")
_(ink_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-283465).jpg "A Shunga (erotic painting) (ink on paper)")
.jpg "The Terrace, Annecy")
.jpg "La Bella Principessa. C. 1496")
_SIGLO_XX_-_(MeisterDrucke-690764).jpg "(WOMAN IN INNER CLOTHING WITH A CHEST UNCOVERED) - XX CENTURY")
.jpg "The Circle of the Traitors: Dante's Foot striking Bocca degli Abbate, Inferno, Canto XXXII, illustration to the 'Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri, 1954")
.jpg "Self Portrait with a Beret, 1886")
.jpg "Landscape with towe")
.jpg "Appian Way")
.jpg "The Models")
.jpg "Man at a Window, 1653")
.jpg "Revolutionary unrest on the streets of France")
.jpg "Ms Fr 71 St. Margaret of Antioch and Olibrius")
