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- Hyacinth Rigaud: Louis XIV
- Louis XIV, 1701
- Oil on canvas
- Approximately 9’2 x 6’3
- Large paining, portrayed over life size
- We know he’s important because…
- Sword: military background
- Blue: royalty, expensive pigment
- Gold: expensive
- Crown, throne, cape
- Tights: muscular shapely legs
- Shoes: heels
- Building: relief in background, large column
- Pose: emphasis on dance and courtship
- Apollo
- Calls himself the sun king
- Fancy carpet
- Painting puts us below him (important in all paintings)
- Looking down
- Viewpoint is in his center
- “I am the state”
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• Antoine Watteau : Return from Cythera o 1717-1719, Louvre, Paris
o Oil on canvas, size: 4’3 x 6’4
o Cythera: mythical home of Venus, the goddess of love
o Young couples
• Paired off
• Closeness between each pair, touching
o Cupid in lower right-hand corner
• Aphrodite’s son
o Nature is presented as a playground
o Shiny fabric, details of fashion
o Boat
o Fantasy of love
o Political power transmitted by blood
o Marriage is important political manner
• Advantageous political alliance
• Marriages arranged by fathers
• Political, social, economic alliances
o Function of marriages is to produce male heirs
o People would “look the other way” if one had an affair
• Subject is often aristocratic leisure, fantasy, celebrates pleasure
• Saloniéres (educated aristocratic women) were center of intellectual and political life
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• François Boucher:
o Many paintings commissioned by Pompadour
o Cupid a Captive
• 1754, oil on canvas, 5’6 x 2’10
• Commissioned by Pompadour
• In her bedroom
• Cupid tied up by 3 ladies
• Holding away his arrows
• Testing point of arrow (looking at cupid)
• In a garden
• Arranged to show much of the women’s bodies
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• François Boucher: o Portrait of Madame de Pompadour
• 1758, oil on canvas, 7’ x 5’3
• Madame de Pompadour: King’s mistress
• No woman can sit on throne, no woman through heir can sit on throne
• Queen only provides sons for next generation of sons
• Only have power if appointed power for young sons
• Kings typically had 1+ mistresses
• Pompadour is major patron of arts
• How is she portrayed
• Reading: literacy
• Paper/pens: can write
• Clothing: details, color, shiny, large
• Background fabric is gold
• Room is large, cant see the ceiling
• Bookshelf with clock, books,
• Large mirror: very expensive
• Wealthy, educated, active correspondence
• Roses: Venus
• Looking away, because looking straight is considered provocative
• Displayed in Paris Salon of 1757
• (Salon is exhibition by academy)
• Rococo decoration on ceiling
• Walls “paved with pictures”
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• Germain Boffrand: Salon de la Princesse
o Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, 1737-1740
o Architecture
o Room looks huge
o Elaborate with all the gold
o Large mirrors
o Sculptures, painted panels (mythological love subjects)
o Room is to have fun, dance, party
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• Jean-Honoré Fragonard: The Swing
o Oil on canvas, 1766, 2’11 x 2’8
o Small painting
o Being pushed on swing by husband
o Large garden, probably belongs to husband
o Kicking off her shoe
o Looking at man in bushes, flirting with her lover
• Lover commissioned the painting
o Private painting
o Big pink “flower” in the middle of blue/green composition
o Tighter style than Watteau
• Public v. private paintings reflective of how they want to be seen
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