1. Rococo & The Enlightenment
The French Taste and Beyond

2. 18th Century 1715 Death of Louis XIV- royal patronage declined
Paris hotel –elegant townhouse, and salon
Patronage- French 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

3. 18th Centruy
Rococo
Rocaille and coquille “rock” and “shell”
Extension of Baroque
Ornate, frivolous style
Aristocratic appeal
Mainly France
England and America- Baroque

4. The Age of Enlightenment
Rene Descartes- “I think, therefore I am”
Denis Diderot- study from nature, outside
Divine right of kings?
Reason and intellect, human ability to control nature

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

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

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

11. Rococo v. Baroque

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25. Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun
Marie Antoinette and Her Children
1788, Oil on canvas
8 ft. 10 in. x 6 ft. 4 3/4 in.

26. Satirical art- middle class Social commentary Moral intentions
England- natural
Baroque?
Satirical art- middle class
Social commentary
Moral intentions
Hogarth defined English style of painting
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William Hogarth
Breakfast Scene from Marriage à la Mode
ca oil on canvas 2 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft.

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

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

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

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

31. Subject: contemporary historical
realism + drama
English general
defeat of French in Quebec
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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

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

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