Commemorating the bicentenary of the death of Jacques-Louis David 2: Revolutionary

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Commemorating the bicentenary of the death of Jacques-Louis David 1: Before the Revolution

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"Girl in a Red Ruff," Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1896.

One of the all-time great Impressionists, Renoir (1841-1919) was becoming disillusioned with Impressionism in the 1880s. He traveled in Italy, partly to visit museums and partly seeking relief from the rheumatoid arthritis that was hindering his life at the time. (He ended up moving to the Mediterranean coast of France, hoping the warm weather would help.)

He was profoundly influenced by Renaissance art, the Neoclassicists (especially Ingres), and the Rococo school, and sought to incorporate more of their style, rather than his usual thing. It didn't entirely last; he ended up re-incorporating some of his Impressionist stylings, but the influence remained. At this point in his life, most of his work involved women in various settings and costumes.

The unidentified woman here is all fresh rosy cheeks and dewy lips, with her hair demurely up in a bun. The white outfit and red ruff makes me wonder if she's meant to be a clown or commedia dell'arte character. She's got the formal posing of a Neoclassical painting, but the colors and warm lighting, and some of the blurred lines, of Renoir's best Impressionist work.

Happy Portrait Monday!

From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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« Sfinxen » (The Sphinx), 1887-1907

by Georg von Rosen (Swedish painter, 1843-1923)
oil on canvas, 280 x 365 cm

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #GeorgvonRosen #neoclassicism #orientalism #MythologicalFantasy

"Madame Desbassayns de Richemont and Her Son," Marie Benoist, 1802.

Benoist (1768-1826) was a French Neoclassical painter and portraitist, a student of the great portraitist Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, and also a protegee of Jacques-Louis David....to whom this portrait was mistakenly attributed for years.

She was one of a number of women artists in France just after the Revolution who exhibited to the public for the first time; before then exhibitions by women artists were rare. Benoist thrived in that environment, and one fame for her "Portrait of Madeleine," of a Black woman, the first time a Black woman had been portrayed as the aesthetic center of a Western work of art.

Jeanne Egle Fulcrand Catherine Mourgue married into the wealthy Desbassayns family, whose immense fortune came from sugar and coffee plantations on Reunion, in the Indian Ocean. There's a certain charm in her simple Empire dress and the curious toddler climbing into her lap.

Benoist sadly withdrew from the art world in 1814, at the height of her popularity, due to her husband's involvement in Royalist causes and the growing wave of conservatism in Europe of the time.

Happy Portrait Monday!

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Jacques-Louis David

Exposition du Louvre qui propose un retour sur l’œuvre et la vie de David.

Peintre mais aussi politique sous la Révolution française, proche de Robespierre, admirateur de Napoléon, exilé en Belgique.

Beaucoup de peinture, études et dessins de ce peintre néo-classique, on voit de près de très grands formats, installé dans l'espace de l'exposition. On voit également beaucoup de version d'un même tableau (la mort de Marat, Napoléon, les amours de Pâris et d'Hélène)...

Ne manquez pas la salle 702 qui permet grâce a un miroir géant de prendre de superbes selfies !

#art #Louvre #paris #expos #painting #david #neoclassicism

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