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12 Cards in this Set
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Charles Le Brun "The Tent of Darius" 1660-61 Oil on Canvas |
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Nicholas Poussin "The Adoration of the Golden Calf" 1633-34 Oil on Canvas |
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Jean-Antoine Watteau "The Embarkation for Cythera" 1717 Oil on canvas "fête galante" |
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard "The Swing" 1767 Oil on Canvas |
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François Boucher "The Toillete of Venus" 1751 Oil on Canvas |
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Jacques-Lousi David "Oath of the Horatii" 1784 -Neoclassical Oil on Canvas |
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Pietro Antonio Martini "The salon of 1785" 1785 Etching Features the Oath of the Horatii in the picture. Salon du Louvre |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds "Lady Saarah Burnbury sacrificing to the graces" 1763-65 Oil on Canvas Portraiture with the incorporation of historical themes. Portraiture was the most lucrative business but was not seen as the most artistically superior form of art so artists would incorporate historical references within portraits to exercise their artistic merit. |
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Thomas Gainsborough "Mr and Mrs Hallett" 1785 Oil on Canvas
Portraits of wealthy sitters posed in a natural setting and dressed in their finest (but not necessarily most practical) clothes were a popular status symbol. |
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Joseph Wright of Derby "An experiment on a bird in the Air Pump" (exhibited)1768 Although, it is an image of a contemporary scene, at the time of production, it is painted like that of a historical painting which were scene as being the highest level of painting. |
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John Constable "The opening of Waterloo Bridge" (exhibited) 1832 Oil on Canvas |
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J.M.W Turner "Helvoetsluys, Ships going out to sea" (exhibited)1832 The Opening of Waterloo Bridge and this painting were both being exhibited at the same time. Constabel had taken years to complete his piece finishing it after it was hanging in the gallery. Not to be upstaged, Turner approached his piece and added the small buoy in the foreground of the painting. |
