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Between the years 1808-1815, Englishman William Berryman lived in Jamaica and produced over 300 sketches of landscapes and enslaved individuals (@librarycongress). 1/
#HECAA #arthistory #long18thcentury #19thcentury #slaveryinart #slavery #Jamaica #Britishart #landscape
The neoclassical portrait underscores Enlightenment principles and Louise’s gaze at the viewer emphasizes her strength of character. 3/3
#Enlightenment #Neoclassical
In The Harp Lesson by Jean Antoine Théodore Giroust (1791, @DallasMuseumArt), the young Louise Marie Adelaïde Eugénie de Bourbon d’Orléans is joined in a duet by her governess, Madame de Genlis, while her English teacher, Mademoiselle Paméla listens. 1/
#HECAA #18thcentury
It’s #MicroMonday! Do you recognize this painting?
#HECAA #18thcentury #arthistory
In this painting on silk, Nagasawa Rosetsu captures the playfulness of some adorable #puppies, even giving them smiles as they watch a butterfly land on a rose. (#18thcentury, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art).
#HECAA #arthistory #Japaneseart #Japan #Edoperiod #painting
The interior painting of the harpsichord is from the 18th century, as Germain’s signature survives. But the interior and exterior of the lid were painted in the #20thcentury and emulate #rococo #painting! 2/2
#musichistory #music #harpsichord #receptionstudies
It's #MicroMonday! Do you know this beautiful painting?
#HECAA #arthistory #18thcentury
The courtship ritual of giving a young woman a bird in a cage symbolized that she held his heart. In the background, a Temple of Vesta has connotations of #feminine #virtue and #eroticism. 2/
#HECAA #18thcentury #arthistory #Boucher #Frenchart #rococo #neoclassicism #tapestry
François Boucher created this cartoon, The Bird Catchers (1748, @GettyMuseum), along with its pendant, The Fountain of Love, as models for a series of tapestries, Noble Pastorales (1778-1780, Manufacture Royale de Beauvais, @artinstitutechi). 1/