Final Flashcards
(24 cards)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard - Psyche showing her Sisters her Gifts from Cupid - 1753
Influenced by Boucher, Rinaldo and Armida, 1734
Charles Joseph Natoire - Paris: Hotel de Soubise: Psyche Giving Treasures to her Sisters - 1738
Fragonard - Grand Priest Coresus Sacrifices Himself to Save Callirhoe - 1765
Exhibited at the Salon of 1765
It was thanks to this painting that Fragonard was accepted by the Académie as a ‘history painter’. He was soon to abandon this type of subject-matter and devote himself to the pleasant, often frivolous paintings for which he is famous.
Fragonard - The Swing - 1767
kicking off the shoe is a visual metaphor for sex
he is holding his hat out, also suggestive of sex
Culmination of the rococo
Wallace Collection
Fragonard - (The Progress of Love) The Pursuit - 1771
Fragonard - (The Progress of Love) The Meeting - 1771-73
Fragonard - (The Progress of Love) The Lover Crowned - 1771
Fragonard - (The Progress of Love) The Love Letters - 1771-73
Fragonard - Waterfalls at Tivoli - 1761
Compared with Hubert Robert’s “Washerwomen at the Fountain in the Grotto”
Hubert Robert - Washerwomen at the Fountain in the Grotto - No Date
Compared with Fragonard’s Waterfalls at Tivoli
Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Betrothal in the Village - 1761
specialized in depicting simpler folk for a broader audience, genre painting as history painting (was not accepted to the academy as a history painter)
Greuze - The Punished Son - 1778
melodrama
Diderot claimed that Greuze’s paintings were “morality in paint”
Greuze - The Ungrateful Son - 1777
morality pictures
The middle class and the life of the simple people
Greuze - Septimius Severus Reproaching Caracalla - 1769
reception piece
He submitted this painting the Salon in 1769 a boring historical painting, which he hoped would make the academy accept him as a history painter. But the academy would admit him to membership only as a genre painter
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin - A Street Show in Paris - 1760
contemporary scenes of everyday life in paris
Étienne Maurice Falconet - Cupid - 1757
very Rococo sculpture
The cupid is refrenced in Fragonards “The Swing”
William Hogarth - (Marriage A-la-Mode: 1.) The Marriage Settlement - 1743
William Hogarth - (Marriage A-la-Mode: 2.) The Tête à Tête (Morning after the Wedding) - 1743
the suggestion is that they were both sleeping with other people
William Hogarth - (Marriage A-la-Mode: 4.) The Toilette - 1743
William Hogarth - (Marriage A-la-Mode: 6.) The Lady’s Death - 1743
Hogarth - Miss Mary Edwards - 1742
Sir Joshua Reynolds - Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse - 1784
Thomas Gainsborough - The Mall in St. James’s Park - 1783
Joseph-Marie Vien - Merchant of Love Cupid Seller - 1763
