Rococo Art
Decorative arts
- pastoral scenes
- only style that really paid attention to ribbons, bows, cherubs, love letter,
- everything looked like a fairytale backdrop
Artists
Angelica Kauffman
- portraits
- commisions for wealthy
William Hogarth
- British
- “Marriage ala Mode”
- known for satire and political cartoons
- conversation pieces
Giovanni Bapttista Tiepolo
- italian
- frescoes
- lighter and happier
Francoise Boucher
- French
- painted passion, erotic, human form, drape of fabric
- personified frivolity and artificiality
- all around Rococo artist
- did more than just painting
Antoine Watteau
- considered first great Rococo painter
- specialized in the landscapes
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- paintings of flirtation and courtship
Self Portrait (1775)
Death of Alcestis (1796)
Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene I (1789)
Self Portrait (1775)
Eva Marie Veigel and husband David Garrick
Marriage à-la-mode, Shortly After the Marriage (1743)
Analysis of Beauty, Plate 1 (1753)
Eva Marie Veigel and husband David Garrick
Allegory of the Planets and Continents (1752)
Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague–Stricken (1759)
The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia (1752)
Allegory of the Planets and Continents (1752)
The Toilet of Venus (1751)
The Interrupted Sleep (1750)
La Petite Reposée (1756)
The Toilet of Venus (1751)
1718-1720 Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas Gemaldegale, Dresden
Oil on canvas Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin
1718-1720 Oil on canvas
1766 Oil on Canvas The Wallace Collection, London
1755-56 Oil on Canvas The Toledo Museum
1775 Oil on Canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1766 Oil on Canvas The Wallace Collection, London
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