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The expression "Rococo" is used for much European art throughout the 18th century, including works by the Italians Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Canaletto and Francesco Guardi and the English Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and the furnituremaker Thomas Chippendale.
The latter half of the 18th century continued to see French preeminence in Europe, particularly through the arts and sciences, and the French language was the lingua franca of the European courts. The French academic system continued to produce artists, but some, like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , explored new and ...
Furthermore, art historian Anne Higonnet argued in 2011 that the work is a self-portrait. [ 6 ] Villers exhibited Study of a young woman sitting on a window and two other works at the Salon of 1801, followed at the Salon of 1802 by a genre painting entitled A child in its cradle and A Study of a Woman from Nature . [ 7 ]
When The Two Sisters was exhibited in the Salon of 1843, the response of the critics and the public was mixed. One critic, Louis Peisse, wrote: M. Chassériau wanted, perhaps unnecessarily, to undertake a difficult thing, to do a painting with two figures of women, both full length, of the same height, both in dresses of the same color and the same fabric, with the same shawl, posed in the ...
The Parks (painting) La Pâtisserie Gloppe; Peasant Family in an Interior; Pilgrims going to Mecca; The Poem of the Soul; Portrait of a Young Girl (Guérin) Portrait of Adéone; Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848
X-ray of painting showing original pose. Young Girl Reading, or The Reader (French: La Liseuse), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.It depicts an unidentified girl seated in profile, wearing a lemon yellow dress with white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons, and reading from a small book held in her right hand.
Women of Algiers in their Apartment (French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement) is the title of two oil on canvas paintings by the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix. Delacroix's first version of Women of Algiers was painted in Paris in 1834 and is located in the Louvre , Paris, France.
Lidiya Masterkova (1927–2008), Russian-born French painter; Catherine Matausch (born 1960), French journalist and painter; Marie-Alexandrine Mathieu (1838–1908), artist known for her etchings; Caroline de Maupéou (1836–1915), painter; Constance Mayer (1775–1821), painter; Caroline Mesquita (born 1989), sculptor; Victorine Meurent (1844 ...