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Francoise Boucher

Portrait of Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764)

Rococo

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ROCOCO

Highly decorative style France Louis XV (1715-74)
spreading to Austria & Germany.

Negatively associated with feminised,
corrupt influence of Louis XV’s lover,
Madame Pompadour.
Definition

Characteristics:

 

  • Complex swirling forms of Baroque,

  • airy & graceful

  • Pleasurable, often voyeuristic and frivolous themes.  

  • Favoured the erotic and decorative

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Francois Boucher


The Back Nude’ of Mlle Louise O'Murphy.


(b. 1703, Paris, d. 1770, Paris)  

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Gustaf Lundberg


Portrait of François Boucher   


(1741)


Rococo

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FRAGONARD
THE SWING
1767
OIL ON CANVAS, 81 X 64 CM
WALLACE COLLECTION, LONDON

Rococo

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ANTOINE WATTEAU 1684-1721,

ENSEIGNE DE GERSAINT, 1721, (GERSAINT'S SHOP SIGN) 
OIL ON CANVAS; 163 X 308 CM;

CHARLOTTENBURG PALACE, BERLIN.
NOTE THE PACKING AWAY OF THE PORTRAIT OF THE KING LOUIS XIV, AND THE COBBLED STREET SCAPE FROM WHICH WE ARE LEAD INTO THE SPACE OF THE ART DEALER’S SHOP.

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Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrunSelf-Portrait, 1790,

oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm
(Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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ÉLISABETH LOUISE VIGÉE-LEBRUN,

 

ARCHDUCHESS MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE, 1778,


OIL ON CANVAS, 273 X 193.5 CM


(KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM, VIENNA)

Rococo

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JOHANN BALTHASAR NEUMANN:


KAISERSAAL, PALACIO EPISCOPAL
1720.

FRESCOES BY TIÉPOLO. WÜRZBURG.

Rococo

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