This document features 15 artworks from the 18th and 19th centuries depicting themes of melancholy, suffering, and romanticism. The artworks portray iconic romantic figures like Lord Byron, John Keats, Chateaubriand's character René, and Mme de Staël and her work Corinne, showing how they captured the "mal du siècle" or suffering of the romantic hero that was prevalent during that time period.

1. Le Mal du Siècle

2. The Suffering Romantic Hero

3. Melancholia
Albrecht Dürer, 1513

4. Melancholy
Constance Charpentier, 1801

5. Lord Byron
Richard Westall, 1813

6. John Keats
Joseph Severn, 1820

7. Young Man by the Sea
Hippolyte Flandrin, 1836

8. Ovid Among the Scythians
Eugène Delacroix, 1862

9. The Prodigal Son
Emile Salomé, 1863

10. Melancholy
Edgar Degas, c. 1874

11. Musset’s Confession
Adolphe Lalauze, 1893

12. Charles Baudelaire
Georges Rochegrosse, 1917

13. Chateaubriand’s René

14. Closing Scene of René
Franz Ludwig Catel, c. 1820

15. François René de Chateaubriand (René)
Gustave Staal, 1860

16. Mme. de Staël and Corinne

17. Benjamin Constant
Hercule de Roches, c. 1830

18. Mme. de Staël and Her Daughter
Marguerite Gérard, c. 1805

19. Mme. de Staël as Corinne
Firmin Massot, 1807

20. Mme. de Staël
Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 1810

21. Mme. de Staël as Corinne
Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1812

22. Mme. de Staël
François Gérard, 1817

23. Corinne at Cape Miseno
François Gérard, 1819

29. Le Château de Coppet