A/HI 240
Visual Culture of Western Europe, 19th C
Gayle Clemans
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Apotheosis of Homer, 1827.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
At the Moulin-Rouge, 1892-93
Oil on canvas,
approx. 12’ 8” x 16’ 10 3/4”
Oil on canvas,
4' 0" x 4' 8“
Government commission
Created “on speculation”
Eventually bought by art dealer
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Art of the 18th c.
The Rococo
The Enlightenment
The Taste for the Natural
Social Critique
Neoclassicism
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JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY,
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery (in which a lamp is put in
place of the sun), ca. 1763–1765. Oil on canvas, 4’ 10” x 6’ 8”.
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Bird in an Air Pump, 1768
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JEAN-BAPTISTESIMÉON CHARDIN,
Grace at Table, 1740.
Oil on canvas,
1’ 7” x 1’ 3”.
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ÉLISABETH LOUISE VIGÉE-LEBRUN
Portrait of Marie Antoinette, 1783
Portrait of Marie Antoinette, c. 1784
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Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Marie-Antoinette et ses enfants
(Marie Antoinette and her Children), 1787
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