Felicity Georgeさんのイラストまとめ

@alisoncrowewine It depends upon the painting, but the hand gestures do have significance. In this case, I interpret it as indicating the smaller family units amongst this group of young adult siblings, their parents & grandpa. I’ve circled in two different colours the two young married couples.

Similar to y’day’s #ArtLovers, Lancret painted a series entitled “The Four Ages of Man[kind]” with lovely depictions of happy, wealthy childhood, adolescence, youth, & a less affluent old age. But as a 44yo, I’d like to know what happened to middle age?🤷‍♀️
Nat’l Gallery
1735

“The Four Times of Day” by Nicolas Lancret is a series of paintings done on copper, which depict morning, midday, afternoon, and evening in 1741–or basically, a typical Saturday, right?😉

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The National Gallery

“La Servante Justifiée” illustrates a scene from Jean de La Fontaine’s popular Fables, in which a philandering husband’s pursuit of a servant is thwarted when he sees a spying neighbour. To create an alibi, he takes his wife into the garden instead.
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N Lancret, 1735
Met

In contrast to her sister Lady Worsley (previous #ArtLovers), Jane Fleming enjoyed a happy marriage to Chas Stanhope, Earl of Harrington. They were an immensely popular couple throughout their long lives.

Lady H twice by Reynolds 1775 & 1779
Lord H “& servant” by Reynolds 1782

I can easily sum up the little we know of the sitter in this exquisite portrait: Sarah Campbell was the daughter of a Scottish MP, later married a man named Woodhouse, had 3 sons, & died in 1802. But here she is, immortalized in youthful beauty.
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Reynolds 1777
Yale

The magnificent, satiny splendour of “Flirtation” by Victorian painter Frédéric Soulacroix shows loud & clear that an obsession with #Regency courtships is no new thing!!!

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Sir John Everett Millais (a Pre-Raphaelite) links the #C18th “fancy paintings” of Mercier, Reynolds & Gainsborough & the nostalgic sentimentalism of the Victorians with “My First Sermon” & “My Second Sermon”. Do you see how these later inspired Norman Rockwell?
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1863

Even before Gainsborough, Philip Mercier painted “fancy paintings” inspired by Dutch genre paintings. After my recent #ArtLovers tweets, can you now see the origins of sentimentalism & romanticism in these paintings from the 1740s & 1750s?
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@Tate
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Intriguingly, sentimentalism (romanticism) has its origins in the Age of Enlightenment (reason). The great #JaneAusten, brilliantly clever as always, was one of the first to satirize this apparent contradiction—look at the title of her 1811 novel, #SenseandSensibility.
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