The Avant-Garde and the Female Nude
David, Sketch for the Oath of the Tennis Court, 1791 Jacques-Louis David, Patroclus, 1780
Part 1: Painting and the Female Nude
François Boucher, Nude on a Sofa, 1751
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814 Term: the Salon exhibition
Government purchases from the Salon of 1865
Henri Gervex, A Meeting of the Salon Jury, 1885
Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784-5
Alexandre Cabanel, Birth of Venus, 1863 Left: Ingres, The Source, 1856 Alexandre Cabanel, Birth of Venus, 1863
Manet, Olympia, 1863
Titian, Venus of Urbino, c. 1538 Manet, Olympia, 1863 Titian, Venus of Urbino, c. 1538
Manet, Olympia, 1863
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin, 1910 Cubism, Georges Braque
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Study, 1907
Part 2: Sculpture and the Female Nude
Antonio Canova, The Three Graces, 1815-16
Charles Garnier, The Paris Opera, 1861-1874 The Boulevard de l’Opéra in the 1870s
Eugène Guillaume, Music, 1865-9
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, The Dance, 1867-9
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz Terms: readymade; Society of Independent Artists
Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy, c. 1920–1921 =Eros, c’est la vie =Eros, that’s life