Triumph of Venus, Francois Boucher, Oil on canvas, 4’3” x 5’3”, 1740
Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera, Jean-Antoine Watteau, oil, 1717 - FLASHCARD
Flashcard… Rococo style in Paris
Know about fete galante paintings
The Meeting, Jean-Honore
Fragonard, oil on canvas,
10’ x 7’, 1771-73
Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of
Dorset, 1730, pastel on paper
Part of a series of paintings on
Rococo romantic adventures
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Also did the Swing
Know about Rosalba Carriera’s role
with women and academies
Pastel colors, aristocracy at
play
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Self-Portrait with Two Pupils
Adelaide Labille-Guiard
1785, 7’ x 5’
What is Labille-Guiard saying about
the role of women painters?
Enlightenment and the role of women
painters?
Marie Antoinette with Her
Children
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
Oil on canvas, 1787
How does this painting try to give
a message?
Who was the patron of this
painting?
What kind of career did VigeeLebrun have?
She was one of 2 women elected to
French Academy
Allegory of abundance
What type of composition is shown?
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THE APOTHEOSIS OF HOMER
Anteroom, Syon House,
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Robert Adam (architect to King
George III)
WEDGWOOD VASE, white jasper body
with a mid blue dip and white relief 18”
Middlesex, England (Duke of
Northumberland’s home)
1786
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Developed style of interior
decoration based on applied
ornament; fit taste of wealthy
Wedgwood showed classical figures
against a pink or blue background
Recognize wedgwood, not necessarily this
specific piece
Aim: “to transform the beautiful
spirit of antiquity with novelty
and variety”
Neoclassicism in England-revival of
classical traditions
Used motifs from Pompeii and
rococo
How did Josiah Wedgwood feel about
Enlightenment ideals?
Never accepted by British Royal
Academy
Unearthing of Pompeii ruins big
influence in Neoclassicism
Lady Sarah Banbury Sacrificing to the
Graces, oil on canvas, Joshua Reynolds,
1765
Grand Manner portrait with style of classical
history painting combined with portraiture
Reynolds - 1st President of British Royal
Academy, wrote book on history painting as
highest form of art & preserving classical
traditions
Lady Banbury playing role of a Roman
priestess making sacrifice to the gods
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The Marriage Contract, William Hogarth, 1743, from Marriage a la Mode series
Flashcard.. Know about satirical paintings & how this showed Hogarth’s views on society
Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough
Oil on canvas, 2 m x 1.5 m, late 18th
century
Gainsborough studied portraits of Van
Eyck - painted over 700 portraits
Influenced by Watteau in feathery
landscapes
Son of a friend (ironmonger), legend
that he painted it in blue to prove
Reynolds wrong about the viability of
blue as a central color in a portait
Disagreed with Sir Reynolds about
having to do classical or history style in
portraits
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump, Joseph Wright, oil on canvas, 1768
Showed Industrial Revolution in dramatic and entertaining way, attempted to popularize
science. Dramatic lighting influenced by WHO?????? (hint: Baroque). Science brings
light into a world of darkness
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Samuel Adams, John Singleton
Copley, oil on canvas 50” x 40”,
1772
Neoclassic style in the colonies
What is Copley trying to say?
How does this reflect the
Enlightenment and what was
happening in England and the
colonies?
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Most famous
Neoclassical
painter
Part of series
of Royal
commissioned
history
paintings
Death of Marat, J. Louis David
1793, oil on canvas 5’5” x 4’2”
What event does this painting
show?
What influences/echoes are there
from Michelangelo and
Caravaggio?
Emblem of
French
revolution
Sacrifices for
good of state
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Oath of the Horatii, Jacques-Louis David, oil on canvas, 11’ x 14’, Louvre, 1785
Exemplum virtuitis.. What story does this show? Neoclassical drapery and tripartite
composition, David was sympathizer with human rights, and did not want education by
the Church
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Richard Boyle, Chiswick House. Gardens designed
by landscape architect William Kent, west London
1724-40
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