Eighteenth Century Enlightenment Ideals and Neoclassicism Lecture 20
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Lord Heathfield, 1787 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Lord Heathfield, 1787. Oil on canvas, 4’ 8” x 3’ 9”. National Gallery, London. 2 2
BENJAMIN WEST, Death of General Wolfe, 1771. Oil on canvas, approx BENJAMIN WEST, Death of General Wolfe, 1771. Oil on canvas, approx. 4’ 11” x 7’ National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (gift of the Duke of Westminster, 1918). 3 3
JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, Portrait of Paul Revere, ca. 1768–1770 JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, Portrait of Paul Revere, ca. 1768–1770. Oil on canvas, 2’ 11 1/8” x 2’ 4”. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 4 4
Artist: John Singleton Copley Title: Watson and the Shark Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 5'10¾" X 7'6½" (1.82 X 2.29 m) Date: 1778 Source/ Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. John Singleton Copley, Watson & the Shark,1778, Washington NGA, 5’11”x7’7”
ANTONIO CANALETTO, Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, ca. 1735-1740 ANTONIO CANALETTO, Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, ca. 1735-1740. Oil on canvas, 1’ 6 ½” X 2’ 7/8”. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo. 6 6
ROBERT ADAM, Etruscan Room, Osterley Park House, Middlesex, England, begun 1761. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 7 7
Josiah Wedgwood, Apotheosis of Homer,1786 (adapted fr Josiah Wedgwood, Apotheosis of Homer,1786 (adapted fr. John Flaxman);, Barlaston, England, 18” Artist: Josiah Wedgwood Title: Vase: The Apotheosis of Homer Medium: White jasper body with a mid-blue dip and white relief Size: height 18" (45.7 cm) Date: 1786 Source/ Museum: Made at the Wedgwood Etruria factory, Staffordshire, England. Relief of The Apotheosis of Homeradapted from plaque by John Flaxman, Jr., 1778. Trustees of the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, Staffordshire, England
ANGELICA KAUFFMANN, Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures, or Mother of the Gracchi, ca. 1785. Oil on canvas, 3’ 4” x 4’ 2”. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond 9 9
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, Oath of the Horatii, 1784. Oil on canvas, approx JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, Oath of the Horatii, 1784. Oil on canvas, approx. 10’ 10” x 13’ 11”. Louvre, Paris. 10 10
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Death of Marat, 1793. Oil on canvas, JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Death of Marat, 1793. Oil on canvas,. 5’ 5” x 4’ 2 1/2”. Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels. 11 11
JACQUES-GERMAIN SOUFFLOT, Pantheon (Sainte-Genevieve), Paris, France, 1755-1792. 12 12
Section and Plan of the Panthéon (Church of Sainte-Geneviève) Artist: n/a Title: Section and Plan of the Panthéon (Church of Sainte-Geneviève) Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/ Museum: n/a Section and Plan of the Panthéon (Church of Sainte-Geneviève)
RICHARD BOYLE and WILLIAM KENT, Chiswick House, near London, England, begun 1725. 14 14
Artist: Thomas Jefferson Title: Monticello Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: 1769–82, 1796–1809 Source/ Museum: Charlottesville, Virginia THOMAS JEFFERSON, Monticello, Charlottesville, United States, 1770–1806.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Rotunda and Lawn, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1819-1826. 16 16
JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON, George Washington, 1788-1792. Marble, 6’ 2” high JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON, George Washington, 1788-1792. Marble, 6’ 2” high. State Capitol, Richmond. 17 17