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Undergraduate 3
04/06/2008

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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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