A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

Natoire (1700–1777) the absorption of Italian influences gained when resident in Italy. But for Natoire and Boucher ...

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Figure 2.2 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: The Chariot of Aurora, oil on canvas, 90.2 × 72.7 cm. The Metropolitan ...

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Figure 2.3 François Boucher: The Toilette of Venus, oil on canvas, 108.3 × 85.1 cm, 1751. The Metropolitan ...

(Scott, 1995, 177). Representations of “heroic” mythological subjects such as those in Coypel’s Aeneas se ...

(1728–1779), Gavin Hamilton (1723–1798), FrançoisGuillaume Ménageot (1744–1816), François André Vincent (17 ...

and LouisJeanJacques Durameau (1733–1796) emulated the Italian baroque tradition. The austerity of the Roman schoo ...

Figure 2.4 Benjamin West: The Death of General Wolfe (1727–1759), oil on panel, replica c. 1771, Private collec ...

portraits of themselves: What resource will be left to the history painter if he is not in a position ...

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Figure 2.5 JosephBenoît Suvée: The Invention of the Art of Drawing, oil on canvas, 267 × 131.5 cm, 1791, ...

character of an individual. One decision relating to the head was whether a sitter should be represented wear ...

for example, for Gainsborough to execute a portrait in its entirety, including landscape settings, drapery ...

rights to land, wealth and title in which large extended families featured significantly (Pointon, 1993 ...

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Figure 2.6 Claude Michel, known as Clodion: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689– 1755), marble, h. 1 ...

Collection, London, has discovered through the use of Xrays and infrared images the ways in which Reynolds often ...

Figure 2.7 Sir Joshua Reynolds: Anne Dashwood (1743–1830), Later Countess of Galloway, oil on canvas, 133.4 ...

example, treating some of her female sitters in a gentler way that focused on their capacity for feeling, ...