Genre
Eerie
The eerie picture withholds. Something is wrong, or about to be — an empty room too still, a light with no clear source, a landscape that seems to be watching. It works by suggestion rather than incident, leaving the dread to assemble itself in the viewer’s mind.
Key artists
Works
Old English House by Moonlight
The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)
The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows)
Nocturne
The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Heraldic Panel with Arms of the House of Hapsburg
January
Quatrefoil Roundel with Arms and Secular Scenes
Eye Miniature
Hanshan and Shide (Japanese: Kanzan and Jittoku)
The three suitors again begin to quarrel among themselves for the hand of the devotee’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night
Ghost and Oil Lamp
A Eunuch's Dream
Sketch of Ibaraki-dōji
Satire on the trial of Johan van Oldenbarneveldt
View of the Colosseum by Night
The Devil and Tom Walker
江戸仕入大津土産|Young Woman with an Otsue Demon Dressed as an Itinerant Priest
Skeleton Painter in his Studio
Blasted Tree
Lion wall painting
Izanami and Izanagi Creating the Japanese Islands
Uvejrslandskab
Mountain Scenery with Waterfall
Architectural Fantasy with the Conversion of Saul (Saint Paul)
Parti af Colosseum
Moonlight
Three Skulls from Convento dei Cappucini at Palermo
Gebirgslandschaft bei Mondschein mit Viehherde und Hirten
Stadt am Ufer im Mondschein
Smyrna (Bazaar)
Architectural fantasy featuring a palace courtyard
Uniate woman
A Tower beside a river
Sea at night
Death, central section of the triptych “Disaster”, sketch
Fleeing
If the Blind Lead the Blind, Both shall Fall into the Ditch
Life
Karton do polichromii Kościoła Mariackiego - Popiersie diabła z rozwartą paszczą
Mephisto
Karton do polichromii Kościoła Mariackiego - Diabeł z głową ptaka
Italian Cemetery at Dusk
Italian Joust of Peace
Scene in a Cave
The Belated Peasant (from Milton's 'Paradise Lost')
Fantasy Farmhouse
Genius
Study for Figure of Fame
Woman Floating in a River Attended by Two Female Spirits
Flying Monster
Das Schloss am Meer (Castle on the Sea)
The Legend of the Wolves
Frederik VII's ligfærd d. 2. december 1863
Fransk bivuak ved nat
St Nicholas of Bari banishing the Storm
Offerings to Mahakala
Small Village in the Autumn Sun
Ansichten aus den vier Weltteilen mit Szenen von Tieren: Bartanico oder Battanico
Caesar Octavianus finds Cleopatra by the body of Antonius
Parella de Sirenes d'Ocell
Monastery scene II
Dream of Gediminas about the Iron Wolf
Fire of Troy
Painted Banner (Thangka) with Guru Dragpur or Vajrakila, a Wrathful Form of Guru Padmasambhava
Castle in Ruins
Fisherman and the Genie
Oaks and Wild Boars
Tantric Manuscript, "Sangrahani Sutra"
Skull
Vessel in the Moonlight
The Dream of Queen Katherine (from William Shakespeare's 'Henry VIII', Act IV, Scene 2) (fragment)
Moonlight near Norwich
Moonlight
Coastline and Mountains
Night Scene with Poachers
Mary's Dream
Funeral March
The Universe is Created (L'Univers est créé)
The Drawbridge
Musical Monster
A Lakeside Chapel by Moonlight
Quien mas rendido? (Which of Them Is the More Overcome?)
The Lawyers Last Circuit
The Griffin
The Smoking Fire
Dis donc, Bichette... a quoi songes-tu donc...
La Blanche Caroline (Pale Caroline)
The Round Tower
Masque
The Flat Iron New York
Evil Tidings in B Flat
Boating Party in an Underground Cave
Duendecitos (Hobgoblins)
Rue de la Vieille lanterne (The Suicide of Gérard de Nerval)
The Sawhorse
Il y eut peut-etre une vision premiere essayee dans la fleur (There was perhaps a first vision attempted in the flower)
Sleeping Monsters
The Drawbridge
Frontispiece for "Zigzags d'un Curieux, d'Octave Uzanne"
Caliban
Le château de la mort (The House of the Dead)
L'Eclair (Lightning)
The Grand Piazza
Le château de la mort (The House of the Dead)
The Drums and the Tapestry Room, Weyers Cave
The Abbess
La galerie Notre-Dame, Paris (The Gallery of Notre Dame, Paris)
Der Tod als Freund (Death as a Friend)
Abbess
Der Bapst (The Pope)
Satané piallard d'enfant va!...
Une Variètè dans L'Amour
Une Variété dans l'Amour (A Change of Heart)
The Gothic Arch
Reynard Asks Permission to Speak
La Blanche Caroline
The Embrace
The Smoking Fire
An Early Riser
Cartouche in the Form of a Drape Suspended from a Cypress Flanked by Skeletons
The Obstacle (L'obstacle)
Prisoners on a Projecting Platform
Les Noctambules (The Night Prowlers)
Dunstanborough Castle
Square Napoléon
Le Tombeau du Diable (The Devil's Tomb)
An Early Riser
Job's Evil Dreams
Los ensacados (The Men in Sacks)
Bishop
First Vignette
Title Plate
Et celui qui était monté dessus se nommait la Mort (And his name that sat on him was Death)
The Bishop
Winter
Hantise (Obsession)
Fragonard and Bergeret with Their Wives Visiting a Tomb in Pompeii
The Warning (L'avertissement)
La galerie Notre-Dame, Paris (The Gallery of Notre Dame, Paris)
The Arch with a Shell Ornament
Marius a minturnes
Inconvénient de louer... non loin d'une rivière
Jacques Cazotte's "Le Diable amoureux" (1st vignette)
A Winged Skeleton Holding an Anatomical Drawing
Jackdaws of Chartres
The Staircase with Trophies
Asta su abuelo (And So Was His Grandfather)
Les Curieux Punis
Fantasy of an Antique Prison
Masque
Les Filles de Minée (The Daughters of Minyas)
On allume des cierges...
The Flight into Egypt
Quand s'eveillait la Vie au Fon de la matiere obscure (When life was awakening in the depths of obscure matter)
Le Patre
The Sculls of Lieut Leppar, & Six of his Men
Lueur precaire, une tete a l'infini suspendue(Precarious glimmering, a head suspended
Love Consecrated (Elle consacre l'amour)
Ancienne porte du Palais de Justice, Paris (Old Gate of the Palace of Justice, Paris)
Springtime Storm
The Gothic Arch
The Circle of the Thieves; Agnolo Brunelleschi Attacked by a Six-Footed Serpent
Rabbit and Two Fighting Men
Te Faruru (They are Making Love Here)
The Drawbridge
Sur le fond de nos nuits dieu de son doigt savant dessine un cauchemar multiforme et sans treve (On backdrop of our nights God with His knowing finger traces a multiform implacable nightmare)
The Infant Shakespeare, Attended by Nature and the Passions
The Gothic Arch
The Wave (L'Onda)
A Woman Carrying Two Children in a Basket, with a Musician
Et le diable qui les seduisait, fut jete dans l'etang de feu et de soufre, ou es la b ete et le faux prophete (And the devil thatdeceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are)
Temple of Jupiter, Evening
From "Bizzarie di varie Figure"
In the Crowd (Dans la foule)
Nocturne: Dance House
Les deux rats, le renard et l'oeuf (Two Rats, the Fox, and the Egg)
Pilate Washing His Hands
Le gascon puni
Job's Evil Dreams
Camera sepolcrale
Un cauchemar de M. Bismarck
Fanny Wocke
Frontispiece
Quien lo creyera! (Who Would Have Thought It!)
Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux (The deformed polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops)
The Duel (Le duel)
Bear Hunt
Death of Abel
On the Red Danube - "Bless You, My Children!"
Ruit Hora (Fleeting Time)
Le Cloître de l'église de Saint-Trophime à Arles
Scenes from the Lives of the Desert Fathers (Thebaid)
Grotto with figures
Small coffered ceiling panel with galley
andscape with Borgo
The Two Churches
Misty Moonlight
The Venezuelan Guard at El Dorado
Skeletons Warming Themselves
Frequently asked questions
What is Eerie?
Eerie is a mood in painting. The eerie picture withholds.
How many Eerie works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 624 public-domain Eerie works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Eerie artists?
Key Eerie artists in the collection include Jasper Francis Cropsey, Francis Wheatley and Rosa Bonheur.