th
• 1715 Death of Louis XIV- royal patronage declined
• Paris hotel –elegant townhouse, and salon
• PatronageFrench aristocracy to middle class and bourgeoisie
– Madame de Pompadour (France)
• Industrial Revolution
• Musical giants- Vivaldi, Bach, Hayden and Mozart
• France & Austria- Seven Year’s War
• England- New World, India
• American Revolution
• French Revolution

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1700- 1775
– Rocaille and coquille “rock” and “shell”
– Extension of Baroque
– Ornate, frivolous style
– Aristocratic appeal
– Mainly France
– England and America- Baroque

•
“I think, therefore I am”
•
- study from nature, outside
• Divine right of kings?
• Reason and intellect, human ability to control nature

Germain Boffrand
Salon de la Princesse with painting by Charles-Joseph Natoire and sculpture by J.B. Lemoine
Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France
1737-1740
style of interior design

François de Cuvilliès
Hall of Mirrors, the Amalienburg
Nymphenburg Palace Park, Munich, Germany early 18th C.
in Germany

François de Cuvilliès
Hall of Mirrors, the Amalienburg
Nymphenburg Palace Park, Munich, Germany early 18th C.

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• Most prominent Rococo painter
• Born in Flanders -> France
• overall mood, feeling?
• shimmer of color
•Different patrons of 17th vs. 18th c.
Antoine Watteau
L’Indifferent ca. 1716 oil on canvas
10 x 7 in.

Antoine Watteau
Return from Cythera
1717-1719 oil on canvas
4 ft. 3 in. x 6 ft. 4 in.
• Rubens influence – color, painterly
• Fete galante
• Classical
• Light, color

•Painter for Madame de Pompadour
•Allegories
•Italian and French Baroque
François Boucher
Cupid a Captive
1754 oil on canvas
5 ft. 6 in. x 2 ft. 10 in.

• Boucher’s student
• Textures
• Patterns
• Content
• Classical
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Swing
1766 oil on canvas
2 ft. 11 in. x 2 ft. 8 in.

• Rene Descartes “I think, therefore I am”
• The encyclopedia
• Isaac Newton
• Denis Diderot study from nature, outside
• Science and rational improvement of Society
• Voltairethe personification of the Enlightenment spirit
• Court of Louis XVI
• Divine right of kings?
• Reason and intellect, human ability to control nature

• scientific interests
• illustrations and teaching aids for doctors
• more accurate than previous
William Hunter
Child in Womb from Anatomy of the
Human Gravid Uterus
1774

Joseph Wright of Derby
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery ca. 1763-1765 oil on canvas
4 ft. 10 in. x 6 ft. 8 in.
• Painting reflects the Enlightenment
• Electricity
• Power of steam
• Industrial Revolution- England

• France- natural
• Baroque?
• bourgeois realism
• genre scenes
• morals found in peasant’s simple life
• owned by King Louis XV
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Grace at Table
1740 oil on canvas
1 ft. 7 in. x 1 ft. 3 in.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
The Soap Bubble ca. 1739 oil on canvas
61 x 63 cm

• Rococo?
• self-confident
• one of few women admitted to
Academy
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Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat after 1782
Oil on canvas, 98 x 70 cm
Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun
Self-Portrait
1790 oil on canvas
8 ft. 4 in. x 6 ft. 9 in.

Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun
Marie Antoinette and Her Children
1788, Oil on canvas
8 ft. 10 in. x 6 ft. 4 3/4 in.
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• England- natural
• Baroque?
• Satirical art- middle class
• Social commentary
• Moral intentions
• Hogarth defined
English style of painting
William Hogarth
Breakfast Scene from Marriage à la Mode ca. 1745 oil on canvas
2 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft.

• Rococo?
• Landscape + portriats
• leading artist in Grand Manner portraiture
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Blue Boy c. 1770,oil on canvas
70.0 in × 44.1 in
Thomas Gainsborough
Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1787 oil on canvas
7 ft. 2 5/8 in. x 5 ft. 5/8 in.

•
Rococo
• Portraits + classical
• soft, elegant
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Lady Sarah Bunbury
Sacrificing to the Graces
1765 oil on canvas
7 ft. 10 in. x 5 ft.

• key = victory
• unidealized realism
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Lord Heathfield
1787 oil on canvas
4 ft. 8 in. x 3 ft. 9 in.

•
Colonial America
• Leading portraitist to
George Washington
• American Revolution
Charles Wilson Peale
George Washington ca. 1779-81 oil on canvas
95 x 61 3/4 in.

• Subject: contemporary historical
• realism + drama
• English general
• defeat of
French in
Quebec
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe
1771 oil on canvas approximately 5 x 7 ft.
• Pennsylvania born- went to England
• cofounder of Royal Academy of Arts
• succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds- president
• official painter to King George III

•
Massachusetts
• left for England
• English portrait style
• Painted BEFORE England
• silversmith
• Baroque?
John Singleton Copley
Portrait of Paul Revere ca. 1768-1770 oil on canvas
2 ft. 11 1/8 in. x 2 ft. 4 in.

•
Italy
• Baroque?
• camera obscura
• very realistic landscapes, details
• Venice
Canaletto dome of the Chapel of Saint Ivo
College of the Sapienza
Rome, Italy begun 1642