1. Rococo / Enlightenment / Neoclassicism 18th Century
1765
1766
Rococo / Enlightenment / Neoclassicism
18th Century

2. GERMAIN BOFFRAND (French Rococo architect, ) Salon de la Princesse, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France, 1737–1740.

3. FRANÇOIS DE CUVILLIÉS, Hall of Mirrors, the Amalienburg, Nymphenburg Palace park, Munich, Germany, early 18th century. A hunting lodge for Maria Amalia, Archduchess of Austria, the wife of Charles VII (Karl Albrecht: Holy Roman Emperor)

4. FRANÇOIS DE CUVILLIÉS, Detail of the Hall of Mirrors, the Amalienburg, showing silver decorative elements in floral and hunting motifs

5. Exterior, The Amalienburg, Nymphenburg Palace park, Munich, Germany, early 18th century. A hunting lodge for Maria Amalia, Archduchess of Austria, the wife of Charles VII (Holy Roman Emperor)

6. A Rococo soup tureen created between 1735 and 1740 by craftsmen under the direction of Juste-Aurèle Meissonier ( ) a French goldsmith, sculptor, painter, architect, and furniture designer, for Louis VX

7. ANTOINE WATTEAU (Flemish-French, – 37 years) L’Indifférent, ca Oil on canvas, approx. 10” x 7”. Louvre, Paris. Colorist – “Rubéniste”

8. ANTOINE WATTEAU, L’Indifférent, ca. 1716, 10 in high / French Rococo
HYACINTHE RIGAUD (French) Louis XIV, 1701, over 9 ft high / Baroque

9. ANTOINE WATTEAU, Return from Cythera, 1717–1719. Oil on canvas, approx
ANTOINE WATTEAU, Return from Cythera, 1717–1719. Oil on canvas, approx. 4’ 3” x 6’ 4”. Louvre, Paris. Rococo. Watteau created the genre of the fête galante: a theatrical idyll for aristocratic patrons.

10. Rubens (Baroque) was a primary influence on Watteau (Rococo)
Rubens (Baroque) was a primary influence on Watteau (Rococo). What do their form and content have in common?
(left) Peter Paul Rubens, The Arrival of Marie de Medici in France, Baroque (right) Antoine Watteau, Return from Cythera, Rococo (Rubeniste) Both were Flemish artists.

11. FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (French Rococo painter and decorative artist, ), Cupid a Captive, 1754, oil on canvas, 5’ 6” x 2’ 10”
For Boucher, “First Painter to the King,” Louis XV, who cultivated Rococo whimsicality and licentiousness, the natural world was "too green and badly lit.” Note influence of Rubens and Watteau.

12. JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (French, 1732-1806), The Swing, 1766
JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (French, ), The Swing, Oil on canvas, approx. 2’ 11” x 2’ 8”. The Wallace Collection, London. An “intrigue” picture The French Revolution (1789) will deprive Fragonard of his private patrons.

13. ÉLISABETH VIGÉE-LEBRUN (French, 1755-1842), Self-Portrait, 1790
ÉLISABETH VIGÉE-LEBRUN (French, ), Self-Portrait, Oil on canvas, 8’ 4” x 6’ 9”. Late Rococo-Neo-classicism

14. ÉLISABETH VIGÉE-LEBRUN, (left) Marie Antoinette and Her Children, 1787; (right) Portrait of Marie Antoinette, The subject – the queen of France – was guillotined for treason in 1793

15. Enlightenment 18th century French Philosophes – the power of the pen
Denis Diderot ( )
created the first encyclopedia
to promote democratization
of knowledge.
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet,
) – attacked both state
and church of the “old regime.”

16. William Hunter (English, ) Child in Womb, from The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus, Birmingham, Copperplate engraving. National Library of Medicine, London. “Doctrine of Empiricism” (John Locke and Isaac Newton)

17. JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY (English painter, ), 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”. Derby Museums and Art Gallery, Derby, Derbyshire, England. EMPIRICISM – ENLIGHTENMENT SCIENCE AND REASON

18. JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery ca. 1763–1765.
A small orrery from the mid-18th
century. Solar system as a clock: emblematic of Rationalism
Compare Caravaggio
Conversion of Saint Paul,
Tenebrism

19. ABRAHAM DARBY (English iron master, ) and THOMAS PRITCHARD (English architect, ), iron bridge at Coalbrookdale, England, 1776– ’ span, 800 cast iron parts. It is the first cast iron bridge in the world, a monument of the industrial revolution. “Doctrine of progress”

20. Neo-Classicism and the Age of Revolution
From the Late 18th Century in Europe

21. ANGELICA KAUFFMANN (Swiss-Austrian active in London, ) Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures, or Mother of the Gracchi, ca Oil on canvas, 3’ 4” x 4’ 2”. NEOCLASSICISM

22. Johann Zoffany, The Academicians of the Royal Academy, (detail). The two women members of the British Royal Academy, Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser are represented as paintings. After them no woman was admitted as a full member until 1936

23. Angelica Kauffman, Self Portrait, 1780-85

24. JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID (French 1748-1825), Oath of the Horatii, 1784
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID (French ), Oath of the Horatii, Oil on canvas, approx. 11’ x 14’. Louvre, Paris. NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER-IDEOLOGIST of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire

25. Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Tennis Court. 1791
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Tennis Court Pen and brown ink, brown wash with white highlights. 26 x 40” The oath to form themselves into the National Assembly was sworn by all 577 representatives of the Third Estate (except one, who is represented in the right corner) on June 20, 1789 in a tennis court near the Palace of Versailles. The storming of the Bastille by the people, which marks the beginning of the French Revolution, occurred on July 14, The subject and costume are contemporary, not historical.

26. “Marks of heroism and
civic virtue offered the
eyes of the people [will]
electrify its soul, and plant
the seeds of glory and
devotion to the fatherland.”
- David
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Death of Marat, Oil on canvas, approx. 5’ 3” x 4’ 1”. Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels. CURRENT EVENT

27. Jacques-Louis David, Bonaparte Crossing the St
Jacques-Louis David, Bonaparte Crossing the St. Bernard Pass, 1800, Oil on canvas, 260 x 221 cm. In 1800, Napoleon led his army of 60,000 men across the alps to gain control of Italy. (Napoleon was probably on a mule.)

28. Napoleonic Europe

29. JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Coronation of Napoleon, 1805–1808
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Coronation of Napoleon, 1805–1808. Oil on canvas, 20’ 4 1/2” x 32’ 1 3/4”. Louvre, Paris.

30. PIERRE VIGNON (French, ) La Madeleine, Paris, France, 1807–1842. “Symbolic link” between Rome and the Napoleonic empire. Begun as a church, it became a “temple of glory” for Napoleon’s armies and victories until the fall of Napoleon in The 52 corinthian columns are each 66 feet high.

32. La Madeleine Maison Carrée
Compare (right) (Roman temple) Maison Carrée, Nimes, France, BCE with (left) PIERRE VIGNON, La Madeleine, Paris, France, 1807–1842, a Catholic church after  

33. Drawing of Washington, D. C
Drawing of Washington, D.C., 1852, showing Capitol building designed by BENJAMIN LATROBE (English-American, ), 1803–1807; and urban design (created in 1791) by PIERRE CHARLES L’ENFANT (French-American, ) Neoclassicism and the New Rome

34. EDMONIA LEWIS (African-Chippewa American, Neoclassical Sculptor, ca
EDMONIA LEWIS (African-Chippewa American, Neoclassical Sculptor, ca ) Forever Free, Marble, 3’ 5 1/4” x 11” x 7”. Howard University, Washington, D.C. Celebration of the “Emancipation Proclamation” issued by Lincoln on January 1, 1863, which declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.“ The U.S. Civil War lasted from

35. “That our tribes might be united That old feuds might be forgotten
And old wounds be healed forever”
Edmonia Lewis, Old Arrow Maker, modeled 1866, carved 1872, marble, 21 1/2 x 13 5/8 x 13 3/8 inches. Inspired by Longfellow’s epic 1855 poem, “The Song of Hiawatha,” Minnehaha (with European features) is shown "plaiting mats of flags and rushes" and her father "making arrowheads of jasper.“ Hiawatha was Chippewa like Edmonia Lewis. // Neoclassicism