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In 1869, Renoir and Monet spent time painting together at La Grenouillère. By 1870, Renoir was living in Louveciennes with his mother. [1] Throughout this decade, the eighteenth-century rococo art movement was back in style and Renoir embraced it. [2] [3] France declared war against Germany on 19 July 1870, starting the Franco-Prussian War ...
Compared with the 17th century Baroque, Rococo implies a lighter and more playful decorative art; the nude female is frequently featured; chinoiserie is also fashionable. Some of the artists that are most often grouped as "Rococo" are listed below. See as well Régence, Louis XV of France, Palace of Versailles. Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) painter
This is an incomplete list of paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir painted about 4000 paintings that have sold at auction for as much as $78.1 million (in 1990). [1] [2] The largest collection of Renoir paintings is at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [3]
Rococo, less commonly Roccoco (/ r ə ˈ k oʊ k oʊ / rə-KOH-koh, US also / ˌ r oʊ k ə ˈ k oʊ / ROH-kə-KOH; French: or ⓘ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and ...
Rococo painting also illustrates, in its first version, the social schism that would lead to the French Revolution, and represents the last symbolic bastion of resistance of an elite distant from the problems and interests of the common people, and that was increasingly threatened by the rise of the middle class, which was educated and began to ...
For the increasing bourgeois audience, the rococo-revival paintings presented an optimistic outlook on life and were appropriate to the new Parisian ‘nobility’ of the late Second Empire. Ingra notes that, "The vogue for rococo imagery [during the Second Empire] however, represented more than a shift in patronage and, consequently, taste.
Academic – c. 1840 – 1900, began in France; Realism – 1830 – 1870, began in France; Barbizon school – 1830 – 1870, France; Peredvizhniki – 1870 – 1890, Russia Abramtsevo Colony – 1870s, Russia; Hague School – 1870 – 1900, Netherlands; American Barbizon School 1850 – 1890s – United States; Spanish Eclecticism – 1845 ...
1870 paintings (37 P) 1871 paintings (26 P) 1872 paintings (37 P) ... Pages in category "1870s paintings" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.