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#Thorntober day 5: The Beast of Gévaudan, an animal which terrorised the former province of Gévaudan, in France between 1764 and 1767. There's a pretty cool statue depicting it in the same area!
12 septembre 1764 : Décès de Jean-Philippe #Rameau, #musicien français (° 25 septembre 1683).
https://t.co/CkkFEvX2SC. Les Indes Galantes
Born #OnThisDay in 1729: #LouisofFrance, Dauphin of France (1729-65), son of #LouisXV, father of #LouisXVI, #LouisXVIII & #CharlesX
Portrait by #AnneBaptisteNivelon (fl. 1754-71) after #MauriceQuentindeLaTour (1704-88), 1764
#Bourbon
#ArtePerLArte
G. P Bagetti (1764/1831)
Veduta del paese, 1820
"Vedutismo verso il Paesaggismo" @BrindusaB1 @lagatta4739 @karmendida @scastaldi9 @matibo11 @ValerioLivia @migliaccio31 @NadiaZanelli1 @licprospero @lissablu68 @Rebeka80721106 @BaroneZaza70 @ampomata @angela3nipoti1
#ArtePerLArte
G. P. Bagetti (1764/1831)
Plenilunio sul mare, 1800/10
"Vedutismo verso il Paesaggismo" @BrindusaB1 @lagatta4739 @karmendida @scastaldi9 @matibo11 @ValerioLivia @migliaccio31 @NadiaZanelli1 @smarucci461 @ampomata @lissablu68 @Rebeka80721106 @BaroneZaza70 @LunaLeso
The Ballad Singer - Henry Robert Morland, c.1764. (Yale Center for British Art).
The Presentation in the Temple, Corrado Giaquinto, c. 1764-1765 https://t.co/QN7VuLqRyB #museumarchive #corradogiaquinto
Sekiya, E-awase, and Matsukaze, from the series “The Tale of Genji, by Ryuryukyo Shinsai (c. 1764-1820)
#ukiyoe
➡️Autoportrait au chien, 1745.
➡️Miss Mary Edwards (mécène et amie de William Hogarth), 1742.
William Hogarth (1697-1764), graveur, peintre anglais.
[1 of 2 tweets] A Rake's Progress - 8 paintings by William Hogarth (GB, 1697–1764). First 4 pictures: (1) The Heir (2) The Levée (3) The Orgy (4) The Arrest. Tom Rakewell, heir & spendthrift son. Note the Rose Tavern, a famous brothel in Covent Garden - and then arrest for debt.
🐚 Les delices des yeux et de l'esprit. v.1 ptie 1-3.
[Nuremberg: George Wolffgang Knorr], 1764-1773.
https://t.co/v3JAJabAho
The other known double portraits of Margaret & Mary are: an elegant painting of the sisters as artists, dated c.1764 @WorcesterArt Museum (USA) and a glamorous full-length in an idealised landscape, dated c.1775, in a private collection (England) #MuseumsFromHome @NationalGallery
Born #OnThisDay in 1726: English painter #FrancisCotes (1726-70)
Portrait of William Denison, 1764-81
#EnglishArt #BritishArt
Written by Jean de La Fontaine (Château-Thierry 1621–1695 Paris)
Illustrator: Charles Percier (Paris 1764–1838 Paris)