A View near Volterra
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
- oil on canvas (70 x 95.5 cm) 1838
- National Gallery of Art (Washington)
Not a plenir-air, but a recollection of impressions.
Ville d’Avray
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- oil on canvas (49 × 65 cm) 1865
- National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air (户外寫生) innovations of Impressionism.
* The invention of metal paint tubes not only preserves the paints but also enables their portability for plein-air of landscapes.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood [PRB] (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.
Although believed to be a preparatory work in oil for the artist's later Massacre at Chios, this painting is nevertheless considered a masterpiece in its own right.
The Death of Sardanapalus
- Eugène Delacroix
- oil on canvas (392 × 496 cm) 1827, (74 × 82 cm) 1844
- Louvre (Paris), Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia)
Lord Byron in Albanian dress
- Thomas Phillips (1770–1845, English)
- oil on canvas (77 x 64 cm) c.1835
- National Portrait Gallery (London)
Lord Byron (1788-1824, English) was an English poet and politician, and is considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement. His play Sardanapalus (1821) inspired Delacroix's “The Death of Sardanapalus” painting.
The Death of Socrates
- Jacques-Louis David
- oil on canvas (130 × 196 cm) 1787
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Socrates on the bed is going to die by drinking poison hemlock, as sentenced. His student Plato is sitting at the foot of the bed.
Oath of the Horatii
- Jacques-Louis David
- oil on canvas (330 × 425 cm) 1784
- Louvre (Paris)
“In a dispute between two warring cities Rome and Alba Longa, three brothers from a Roman family, the Horatii, agree to end the war by fighting three brothers from a family of Alba Longa, the Curiatii.
“The three Horatii brothers, all willing to die for Rome, are shown saluting their father who holds their swords out for them. Of the three Horatii brothers, only one shall survive the confrontation and kill the three Curiatii brothers.
“In the bottom right corner, David also represents a woman crying whilst sat down. She is a sister of the Horatii brothers, but is also married to one of the Curiatii fighters; she weeps in the realisation that, in any case, she will lose someone she loves.”
The Sabines fought to rescue their women taken by the Romans two years ago. Some Sabines women came with their new-born Roman babies in attempt to stop the combat.
David had a large number of pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century (Neoclassical).
"On 13 July 1793, journalist Jean-Paul Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday, while taking a medicinal bath for his debilitating skin condition." Painter David went onsite to paint the dead Marat.
The Death of Marat
- Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825, French)
- oil on canvas (165 × 128 cm) 1793
- Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
“In his death, Marat became an icon to the Jacobins as a revolutionary martyr. For this assassination, Corday (1768-93) was executed four days later.”
However, “under the Second Empire (regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870), Marat was seen as a revolutionary monster (causing too many to the guillotines during the Reign of Terror), and assassin Corday as a heroine of France.”
Serving Napoleon, David developed his Empire Style:
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
- Jacques-Louis David
- oil on canvas (261 × 221 cm) 1801
- Château de Malmaison (Paris)
The Coronation of Napoleon
- Jacques-Louis David
- oil on canvas (621 × 979 cm) 1805-07
- Louvre (Paris)
* When Napoleon fell and the monarchy (Louis XVIII, younger brother of Louis XVI) was restored, David went into exile in Belgium.
* The infant son of the beheaded monarch, Louis XVII by title, died of malnutrition and maltreatment during captivity by the sans-culottes.
1667 The Salon, at the Grand Salon of the Louvre, hosted the first official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Paris).
(L) Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists
Exhibiting at the Salon of 1824 at the Louvre January 15th 1825 - François Joseph Heim (1787–1865, French) - oil on canvas (173 x 256 cm) 1827 - Louvre Museum (Paris)
A contemporary illustration of
the Women's March on Versailles,
5 October 1789
Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Genevan)
- Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788, French)
- pastel on paper (45 x 35.5 cm) 3Q 18th century
- Musée Antoine-Lécuyer (Saint-Quentin, France)
His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and .....
