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"Portrait of Eleanor, Countess of Lauderdale," Angelica Kauffmann, C. 1780-1.
Swiss-born Kauffmann (1741-1807) became the most celebrated female artist in 18th century England.
The daughter of a muralist, she learned painting from her father as they traveled in Switzerland, Austria, and Italy, and chose art as a career rather than music (she was an accomplished musician with a superb singing voice) after a family friend warned her against the stage.
After her father's death in 1757, she moved to Milan, then traveled around in Italy, then to England in '65, where she won fame for her society portraits and history paintings. She returned to Rome to retire in '81.
Not much is known about the subject of this painting, other than she was the only child of a wealthy family, who married the Earl of Lauderdale in 1782, so it's thought this commemorated the event. It's got a nice simplicity to it; no showy jewelry or gaudy outfits, but a simple view of a young lady.
From the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Frederic Leighton💫
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In the Louvre Museum there's a stunning marble sculpture of Cupid whose wings are carved so finely that when sunlight passes through them, the translucent stone glows like golden amber.
The statue is known as Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, and it was carved by one of the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, Antonio Canova, between 1787 and 1793.
https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/visitor-trails/the-louvre-s-masterpieces/bringing-marble-to-life
Anyone interested in seeing more of Canova's work, visit the Canova Museum in Possagno, the town in Veneto where he was born.
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Frederic Leighton💫
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The Artistic Legacy of Joseph Karl Stieler, Bavarian Court Painter
📰 Original title: Joseph Karl Stieler: The Master of Neoclassical Portraiture
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"Roses, Orange Blossom, and Other Flowers in a Blue Vase," Anna Vallayer-Coster, c. 1800.
Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818) was a French painter best known for her still lifes, which was not a popular genre of painting at the time...but she was, and is, noted as a very skilled artist in that school.
She achieved fame and recognition early on, at the age of 26, and her works (including portraits, florals, and scenes of everyday life as well as still lifes) were in demand by the aristocracy.
Her career was hurt by the French Revolution. A very private and hardworking woman, she was spared the anger and bloodshed, but the market for her work dried up. Reportedly she worked in a tapestry factory for a while, just to make a living, and was still painting up until a few years before her passing at 73.
Today, while not regarded as a genius,, she is admired for her ability to treat just about anything with a certain grandeur, and to make everything seem solid and permanent, even flowers.
Happy Flower Friday!
From a private collection.
#Art #AnnaVallayerCoster #FlowerFriday #WomenArtists #StillLIfe #Neoclassicism
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Landscape with Polyphemus, Nicolas Poussin (1649), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/03/landscape-with-polyphemus-nicolas.html
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A music break for sanity's sake. Not in vain! #music #soviet #russia #composer #pianist #classical #neoclassicism #avantgarde #genius https://youtu.be/y-zDhcLpsdE?si=bZDx3rWT2gsaFtq5
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Frederic Leighton💫
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Groom in the Greek Style (1771) by Benigno Bossi, from Mascarade à la Grecque.
Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/be56f26f-b8d9-4c0b-bfbe-330f975216b7
#greek #costumes #neoclassicism #armor #design #architecture #shields #helmets #fashion #art #publicdomain
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Commemorating the bicentenary of the death of Jacques-Louis David 2: Revolutionary
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Commemorating the bicentenary of the death of Jacques-Louis David 1: Before the Revolution
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"Girl in a Red Ruff," Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1896.
One of the all-time great Impressionists, Renoir (1841-1919) was becoming disillusioned with Impressionism in the 1880s. He traveled in Italy, partly to visit museums and partly seeking relief from the rheumatoid arthritis that was hindering his life at the time. (He ended up moving to the Mediterranean coast of France, hoping the warm weather would help.)
He was profoundly influenced by Renaissance art, the Neoclassicists (especially Ingres), and the Rococo school, and sought to incorporate more of their style, rather than his usual thing. It didn't entirely last; he ended up re-incorporating some of his Impressionist stylings, but the influence remained. At this point in his life, most of his work involved women in various settings and costumes.
The unidentified woman here is all fresh rosy cheeks and dewy lips, with her hair demurely up in a bun. The white outfit and red ruff makes me wonder if she's meant to be a clown or commedia dell'arte character. She's got the formal posing of a Neoclassical painting, but the colors and warm lighting, and some of the blurred lines, of Renoir's best Impressionist work.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Dre Jünglinge unter Orangenbäumen (Three Young Men under Orange Trees by Hans von Marées, 1873-1875 (mixed media on panel)
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"Madame Desbassayns de Richemont and Her Son," Marie Benoist, 1802.
Benoist (1768-1826) was a French Neoclassical painter and portraitist, a student of the great portraitist Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, and also a protegee of Jacques-Louis David....to whom this portrait was mistakenly attributed for years.
She was one of a number of women artists in France just after the Revolution who exhibited to the public for the first time; before then exhibitions by women artists were rare. Benoist thrived in that environment, and one fame for her "Portrait of Madeleine," of a Black woman, the first time a Black woman had been portrayed as the aesthetic center of a Western work of art.
Jeanne Egle Fulcrand Catherine Mourgue married into the wealthy Desbassayns family, whose immense fortune came from sugar and coffee plantations on Reunion, in the Indian Ocean. There's a certain charm in her simple Empire dress and the curious toddler climbing into her lap.
Benoist sadly withdrew from the art world in 1814, at the height of her popularity, due to her husband's involvement in Royalist causes and the growing wave of conservatism in Europe of the time.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Frederic Leighton💫
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