Rococo & Neoclassical Painting

Anna Han
Charlotte Liu
Mary Chen
Peggy Hsu
 Outline
Baroque Rococo Neoclassical
(17~18th) (18th ) (18~20th )

• Rococo Painting

• Neoclassical Painting

• Rococo V.S Neoclassical

 Rococo Painting
• 18th century
• Subject of Painting: Gallant country parties,
ladies, love and romance,
carefree life of the aristocracy
• Style of painting: swift, smooth,playful lining
delicate coloring, graceful
movement
Antoine Watteau
A French Painter

Painting theatrical scenes

“fetes galantes”
Departure from the of Cythera , 1717
The French Theater
1714Oil on canvas , Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Pierrot, also know as Gilles
1721, Oil on canvas.
Louvre, Paris.
 François Boucher
• A French painter

• Pastoral and mythological scenes

• Frivolity and Sensuousness

• Plump , pink nudes

Venus Consoling Love
1751. Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
The Toilette of Venus ,
Oil on Canvas, 1751
Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York
Interrupted Sleep
Oil on canvas, 1750
Metropolitan Museum of
Art , New York
Marie-Louise Elisabeth
Vigee-Leburn
• Refined Portraits
• French female artist
• Affected by Ruben
and vanDyck
• Tribute to European
fashion industry
Marie Antoinette, 1788
Oil on canvas, Musee de
Verasilles. Giraudon/Art
Resource, New York
Marie Anoinette- 1779
Oil on canvas,
Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna
• Marie Antoinette at
Versailles – 1783
Oil on canvas, at
Versailles.
• Portrait of a Young
Woman
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, USA
Jean-Honore Fragonard

• French painter
• Courtship and
romantic love
• Sensuous abandon
sipirt
• The Swing
1768, Oil on Canvas,
the Wallace
Collection, London
• The Confession of
Love
1771, Oil on canvas,
Frick Collection, New
York
• The Stolen Kiss, 1786-1788 The State Hermitage Museum,
St. Petersburg
 Neoclassicism

• Between 18th and 20th centuries

• A self-conscious revival of Greco-Roman
culture
• Synthesize the tradition anew in each work
 Jacques-Louis David

•A French artist
•Pioneer of Neoclassicism
•Influential paintings
-- The Oath of the Horatii, 1784
-- The Death of Socrates, 1787
 Rome Alba

Horatii Family Curiatii Family

Camilla
Sabina

Married!!

Engaged!
•The Oath of the Horatii, 1784

golden light
Doric arcade
 •Straight, hard-edged shapes
•Horizontal lines
spear
•Somber colors
•Precise, realistic
•The Death of Socrates, 1787

Socrates
Socrates’ wife
hemlock

Plato
Crito
 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
(1780~1867)
• Son of an artist-craftman

• A fellow student of Gros in David's

studio

• Admire “Raphael, his century, the

ancients, and above all the divine
Greeks.”

• Famous for polished depictions of

history and mythology with
accomplished portraits Self-portrait at age 24, 1804 Musée Condé.
 Works
• Portraits of middle- and upper-class patrons

• Large works: The Apotheosis of Homer

The Martyrdom of St Symphorian

• Bathers— especially women

 Madame Moitessier ,1851
Madame Rivière, 1806.

Portret Joseph-Antoinea
Moltedo - 1810

Portret Madame Cave - 1844 Portret Francois-Marius Granet Portret Rzeźbiarza

- 1807 Lorenzo Bartolini - 1820
The Apotheosis of Homer
The Martyrdom of St Symphorian
La grande odalisque, 1814, Louvre.
The Valpincon Bather,1808
The Turkish bath, 1862
 Angelica Kauffmann (1741~1807)
• Swish female artist

• Member of England’s Royal

Academic of Art

• Skilled painter of historical

events
Miranda and Ferdinand in The Tempest, 1782.
Venus convinces Helen to go with Paris, 1790.
 Rococo V.S Neoclassical
Rococo Neoclassical

Time 18th century (1700~1750) 18th ~ 20th century

Subject Aristocratic luxurious Historical and religious

lives events

Style Playful lining Linear lining

Free movement Expressive contour
Delicate color