Neoclassicism

Cherubini with the Muse of Lyric Poetry by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) is of famous Italian composer Luigi Cherubini accompanied by the figure of his muse or inspiration. It was painted the year of Cherubini’s death in 1842 when Ingres was 62 years of age. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Cherubini with the Muse of […]

Lieutenant Charles Legrand is an 1810 oil on canvas portrait painting by French Neoclassic artist Antoine-Jean Gros. This is a tribute equestrian portrait of Lieutenant Charles Legrand, the son of General Legrand, who was killed during the Spanish rebellion against Napoleonic rule just two years earlier in 1808. Antoine-Jean Gros’s Lieutenant Charles Legrand is in

German painter Johann Zoffany, who worked mainly in England, showcases London-based stage actress Elizabeth Farren as Hermione in Shakespeare’s ‘A winter’s tale’. The picture was painted in 1780 when Zoffany was 47 years of age. This large painting (2.5 meters high) is currently on display in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.