Neoclassicism

La Grande Odalisque: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

La Grande Odalisque: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

La Grande Odalisque is an 1814 painting by French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. La Grande Odalisque Analysis One of Ingres’s most famous paintings, La Grande Odalisque hints at an attraction toward Romanticism in the great Neoclassicist and drew harsh criticism because of the strange anatomy of its subject. What we see It shows an odalisque …

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Portrait of George Washington: Rembrandt Peale

Portrait of George Washington: Rembrandt Peale

Portrait of George Washington is a 1799 portrait painting by American Neoclassical artist Rembrandt Peale. Analysis of the Portrait of George Washington This 1846 oil on canvas portrait of George Washington was painted by American artist Rembrandt Peale who was a prominent portraitist who painted in the neoclassic style. Peale painted an original portrait of …

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Benjamin West: Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky

Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky: Benjamin West

Benjamin West was a self-taught Neoclassical painter in America. Here is his 1816 painting Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, the famous polymath and one of the founders of modern America, looks to the heavens in a dramatic scene of thunder and lightning with his eyes similarly alight with curiosity and inspiration. He is …

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John Reinhard Weguelin: The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat

The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat: John Reinhard Weguelin

John Reinhard Weguelin, a British Neoclassical painter, was known for his mythological and historical subjects mainly based on the ancient world which can be seen in his 1886 work The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat. Here the scene is in ancient Egypt, where a woman makes a ritualistic preparation for the journey of the soul …

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Antoine-Jean Gros: General Baston de Lariboisière and His Son Ferdinand

General Baston de Lariboisière and His Son Ferdinand: Antoine-Jean Gros

French Neoclassical artist Antoine-Jean Gros paints General Baston de Lariboisière and His Son Ferdinand in 1805, a year after Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo and the mood in France is generally a complex of remembrance and mourning. Here, Ferdinand is portrayed as a gallant and brave young officer of the Napoleonic army as he stands with …

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Antoine-Jean Gros: Portrait of General Claude Legrand

Portrait of General Claude Legrand: Antoine-Jean Gros

In 1810 French artist Antoine-Jean Gros painted a portrait of General Claude Legrand who was a distinguished general of Napoleon. He was a veteran leader of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was to die of his wounds in 1815 at the River Berezina. In Gros’s portrait here the general is shown full-length out …

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Antoine-Jean Gros: Equestrian Portrait of Prince Boris Yusupov

Equestrian Portrait of Prince Boris Yusupov: Antoine-Jean Gros

Antoine-Jean Gros was commissioned by the boy’s father to paint this spirited piece Equestrian Portrait of Prince Boris Yusupov in 1809. Primarily known as an Academic painter of Napoleon, Gros never saw Russia and so paints an imaginary landscape here. The horse rears up energetically while the young prince manages the reins adeptly with his …

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Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry: Charlotte Corday

Charlotte Corday: Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry’s painting of Charlotte Corday can be seen as a riposte to Jacques-Louis David’s treatment of the same subject, the assassination of a wild and bloodthirsty leader of the French Revolution, Jean-Paul Marat. Corday, a royalist sympathizer, here awaits her arrest as Marat lies dying with his hand gripping his bath’s edge. The work …

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Jacques-Louis David: Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Countess of Sorcy

Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Countess of Sorcy: Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David’s portrait of Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Countess of Sorcy was painted in 1790 at the beginning of the French Revolution and David, a supporter of the revolution, paints his sitter in simple clothing wrapped in a cowl. This shows Madame Thélusson as a simple citizen despite her title, in a new world that was seeing …

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Angelica saved by Ruggiero

Angelica saved by Ruggiero: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres spent 20 years on and off painting Angelica saved by Ruggiero between 1819 and 1839. The story is based on the Italian epic poem Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto in 1516. Angelica saved by Ruggiero Analysis Here we see Ruggiero on a Hippogriff, a mythical creature half man half griffin saving …

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Antoine-Jean Gros: Napoleon Accepts the Surrender of Madrid, 4th December 1808

Antoine-Jean Gros: Napoleon Accepts the Surrender of Madrid

Napoleon Accepts the Surrender of Madrid, 4th December 1808 by French painter Antoine-Jean Gros shows the success of the French quashing the months-long Spanish revolt against Joseph Bonaparte’s rule, and the banishment of the British forces from the Iberian peninsula. Painted two years after the events took place and exhibited at the Salon of 1810 …

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