Saturday, January 17, 2015

Two Cousins

Antoine Watteau
Two Cousins
c. 1716

Antoine Watteau
Diana at her Bath
1715-16

Yesterday's entertaining glance at the French Baroque incidentally opened a side path into the French 18th century (with its confident gestures and melancholy merriment and silvery gloss). This allowed me to stray briefly outside the temporal boundaries within which I generally am content to dwell.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Marie Madeleine Guimard
1769

Nicolas Bertin
Phaéton on the Chariot of Apollo
c. 1720

Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld
Vue de l'île de Sora
1793

Jean-Germain Drouais
Marius at Minturnae
1786

Noel Hallé
Race Between Hippomenes and Atalanta
c. 1762-65

Jean-François-Pierre Peyron
Death of Alcestis
1785

Pierre Subleyras
Portrait of a Man Reading
c. 1745

Pierre Subleyras
Charon Ferrying the Shades
c. 1735-40

Anne Vallayer-Coster
Still Life with Marine Plants, Shells & Coral
1769

Claude-Joseph Vernet
Port of Marseilles
1754

Pierre-Henri Valenciennes
Roman Morning
c. 1782-84

Pierre-Henri Valenciennes
Roman Clouds
c. 1780