A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

followers, which became well known not just in the print market but also in the writings of art critics, ...

Figure 2.11 JeanBaptiste Greuze: Broken Eggs, oil on canvas, 73 × 94 cm, 1756. The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

activities such as the observation of scientific experiments. He painted contemporary, imaginative and Shakespearea ...

Figure 2.12 JacquesLouis David: The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, oil on canvas, 323 × ...

those aspiring to an aristocratic lifestyle to acquire their own art collections served as a metaphor for ...

Figure 2.13 JeanAntoine Watteau: Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera, oil on canvas, 129 × 194 cm, Paris, Mus ...

fashioning and display in a way that reassured them they still had the ability to win power over others, ...

“elite sociability” prevalent in Parisian and other urban contexts, embracing their interest in particul ...

laborious effort rather than flights of genius (Wrigley, 1993, 299–301). Such “naturalism” was often associ ...

inspired by classical Greek and Roman myths and pastoral idylls. Such landscapes were often completed as ...

more aesthetically constructed compositions. Their services were sought not only by the Crown but also by ...

He produced some works representing his native Welsh landscape, such as his Claudeinspired Snowdon from L ...

Vernet, eulogized by Diderot for being so “conversant ... with natural phenomena” was reported to have a “fruit ...

in his A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire (1778); William Gilpin (1724–1804) in his illus ...

beggars were often used to lead the eye into a composition or to add human interest. Watercolor works ...

step further by suggesting that “dead” or inanimate objects are the main focus in such works, although ...

1793), influenced by previous commentators such as JeanBaptiste Du Bos (1670–1742) and La Font de Saint Y ...

ranges of tureens, sauceboats and centerpieces typical of the fashionable contemporary “French dining service” i ...

Figure 2.16 JeanBaptisteSiméon Chardin: The White Tablecloth, oil on canvas, 96.8 × 123.5 cm, 1731/32. ...

contemporary (rather than chronologically remote) events. West and Hogarth also explored morally significant them ...