Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
- Chapter 01
- Chapter 02
- Chapter 03
- Chapter 04
- Chapter 05
Guide
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A Guide to EighteenthCentury Art
Linda Walsh
This edition first published 2017
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Names: Walsh, Linda, author.
Title: A guide to eighteenthcentury art / By Linda Walsh.
Description: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016006830 (print) | LCCN 2016008504 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118475577 (cloth) | ISBN 9781118475515 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781118475591 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118475553 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Art, European18th centuryStudy and teaching. | Art, EuropeanHistoriography.
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Cover image: The Scullery Maid (1738) by JeanBaptiste Simeon Chardin, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow 2016
List of Figures
Gawen Hamilton (16981737): A Conversation of Virtuosis at the Kings Arms, oil on canvas, 87.6 111.5cm, 1735. National Portrait Gallery, London. |
Angelica Kauffman: Sir Joshua Reynolds, oil on canvas, 127 101.5 cm, 1767, National Trust Collection, Saltram, Devon. |
Martin Ferdinand Quadal (17361811): The Life Class of the Vienna Academy in the St Anne Building, oil on canvas, 144 207 cm, 1787. Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. |
Franz Anton Bustelli: Harlequina, hardpaste porcelain, h. 20.3 cm, c. 1763, German, Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973, Acc. no: 1974.356.524. |
Roderick Chalmers: The Incorporation of Wrights and Masons in Front of the Palace of Holyrood House, oil on canvas, 104.4 182.1 cm, 1720. Trade Incorporation of Wrights and Masons of Edinburgh. |
Henry Fuseli: Probably John Cartwright, black chalk, 32.4 50.2 cm, c.1779. National Portrait Gallery, London. |
Nol Hall: Trajan Showing Mercy, oil on canvas, 265 302cm, 1765. Muse des Beaux Arts, Marseille. |
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: The Chariot of Aurora, oil on canvas, 90.2 72.7 cm, c.1734. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Lore Heinemann, in memory of her husband, Dr Rudolf J. Heinemann, 1996. Acc. No: 1997.117.7. |
Franois Boucher: The Toilette of Venus, oil on canvas, 108.3 85.1cm, 1751. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920, Acc. No: 20.155.9. |
Benjamin West: The Death of General Wolfe (17271759), oil on panel, replica c. 1771, Private collection (original, 152 214 cm, in National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa). |
JosephBenot Suve: The Invention of the Art of Drawing, oil on canvas, 267 131.5 cm, 1791, Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium. |
Claude Michel, known as Clodion: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (16891755), marble, h. 164 cm. Paris, Muse du Louvre. |
Sir Joshua Reynolds: Anne Dashwood (17431830), Later Countess of Galloway, oil on canvas, 133.4 118.7cm, with strip of 18.1cm folded over the top of the stretcher, 1764. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Lillian S. Timken, 1950. Acc. No: 50.238.2. |
Arthur Devis: Portrait of Lady Juliana Penn, oil on canvas, 91.8 79.1cm, 1752, Philadelphia Museum of Art. |
JeanAntoine Houdon: Sabine Houdon (17871836), white marble on gray marble socle, overall, without base (confirmed): H. 27.3 W. 22.5 D. 14.9cm, 9.0719kg; H. with base (confirmed): 34.3cm, 1788. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950, Acc. No: 50.145.66. |
Johan Zoffany RA: The Gore Family with George, 3rd Earl Cowper, oil on canvas, 78.7 97.8 cm, c. 1775. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. |
JeanBaptiste Greuze: Broken Eggs, oil on canvas, 73 94 cm, 1756. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920, Acc.No: 20.155.8. |
JacquesLouis David: The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, oil on canvas, 323 422 cm, 1789, Paris, Muse du Louvre. |
JeanAntoine Watteau: Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera, oil on canvas, 129 194cm, 1717. Paris, Muse du Louvre. |
Richard Wilson: Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery, oil on canvas, 42.9 53.7 cm, c. 17561757. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of George A. Hearn, 1905, Acc. No.: 05.32.3. |
Thomas Girtin: Lake Windermere and Belle Isle, pencil, pen and ink and watercolor on paper, 35.3 48.7cm, c.17921793. The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere. |
JeanBaptisteSimon Chardin: The White Tablecloth, oil on canvas, 96.8 123.5 cm, 1731/32. The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection, 1944, 699. |
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