Gardner Chapter 29
EUROPE & AMERICA, 1700-1800
(revised 8/08)

VOCABULARY AND IMAGES
Enlightenment
Moral Genre
fête galante

ROCOCO
Germain Boffrand
*Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise, Paris, begun 1732
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
*Departure from Cythera, 1717
       http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/watteau/p-watteau16.htm
Francois Boucher (1703-70)
Cupid a Captive, 1754 (oil/canvas)

ELIGHTENMENT THEMES: MORAL GENRE & PORTRAITURE

England
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97)
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery, c. 1763-65 (oil/canvas)
William Hogarth  (1697-1764)
Breakfast Scene, from "Marriage à La Mode", o/c, 1743-45 
       http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/h/hogarth/index.html
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92)
Lord Heathfield, 1787 (oil/canvas)
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88)
Mr. Richard Brinsley Sheridan,  1787 (o/c)
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/gainsbor/p-gainsbo1.htm

Benjamin West (1738-1820)
Death of General Wolfe, 1770 
       http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/west/p-west4.htm
France
Jean-Baptise Greuze (1725-1805)
The Village Bride, 1761 (oil/canvas)
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779)
Grace at Table, 1740 (oil/canvas)
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/chardin/p-chardin23.htm
Marie-Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1744-1842)
Self-Portrait, 1790 (oil/canvas)
 
NEOCLASSICISM

Painting
Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807)
*Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures, 1785
     http://www.webgalleries.com/pm/colors/pointing.html
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
*Oath of the Horatii, 1784-85 
       http://www.louvre.fr/img/photos/collec/peint/grande/inv3692.jpg 

 Death of Marat, 1793 
       http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/david_ext.html

Sculpture

Jean-Antoine Houdon
 George Washington, marble, 1788-92

Horatio Greenough
George Washington, marble, 1840

Architecture

Richard Boyle (3rd Earl of Burlington) (1695-1753)
*Chiswick House, West London, 1724-29      
http://www.GreatBuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Chiswick_House.html/cid_1802748.gbi
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
*Monticello, Charlottesville, VA, 1770-84; 1796-1806 
       http://www.monticello.org/ 

 
Chapter Review Questions
1.  Identify the Rococo characteristics Boffrand's Salon da la Princesse (Hotel de Soubise; fig. 29-2) and Watteau's Departure from
     Cythera (fig. 28-4).

2.  What new ideas and developments led to the Age of Enlightenment?

3.  What ideas and interests helped to revive the classical style?

4.  Define the characteristics of Neoclassicism in Angelica Kauffmann's Cornelia Pointing to Her Children (fig. 29-22) and Jacques Louis David's Oath of the
     Horatii (fig. 29-33.