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Born #OnThisDay in 1707: French painter #LouisMichelvanLoo (1707-71)
Portrait of Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Marigny (1727-81) and his wife Julie Filleul (1751-1822), 1769
#vanLoo #FrenchArt #Rococo
Born #onthisday1690 Nicolas Lancret master of #Rococo art form & brilliant #painter of balls fairs & weddings showing French social tastes & manners under the regent Orleans Later his pastels palette deftly captured a sense of harmony between art & nature Many of Lancret’s…
Born #OnThisDay in 1684: French Painter #JeanBaptistevanLoo (1684-1745)
Portrait of #AugustaofSaxeGotha, Princess of Wales (1719-72), 1742
#FrenchArt #Rococo #vanLoo #Hanover
Born #onthisday1869 Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée French #Rococo #painter Won Grand Prix de Rome for painting (1749) elected member of Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture (1755) Career blossomed in Paris leading to appointment as court painter 2 Elizabeth Empress of Russia
Born #OnThisDay in 1695: #Swedish #politician Count Carl Gustaf #Tessin (1695-1770)
#Portrait by Louis #Tocqué (1696-1772), 1741
#FrenchArt #Portraiture #Rococo
#Nationalmuseum
Died #OnThisDay in 1788: #English #Painter Thomas #Gainsborough (1727-88)
#Portrait of the Honourable Frances Duncombe (1757-1827), ca. 1777
#EnglishArt #Portraiture #Rococo
#TheFrickCollection
"Jupiter and Antiope" (1775) by #AnnaDorotheaTherbusch was a #Rococo painter born in Berlin. She's considered as a very prominent #painter of her time, her father was a portraitist and it's him who taught her and her siblings to paint. #womenartists #womennart #herstory
What is your favorite Rococo painting?
Many list The Swing by Fragonard among their favorites. A naughty painting showing a young man trying to peek under the skirt of his lover.
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#Rococo #Fragonard #ArtHistory #Art #Favorite
Allegory of Painting (also known as Allégorie de la Peinture)
François Boucher - 1764
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#French #Boucher #passionforpaintings #Rococo
Rosalba Carriera (Italian, 1675 - 1757)
A Muse circa 1725
🏛️ J. Paul Getty Museum - Los Angeles (United States - Los Angeles)
💫#ArteYArt #Rococo
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"The Swing" is a painting by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard and one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era. It depicts a young woman on a swing and a smiling young man watches her from a vantage point that allows him to see up into her dress.
#arthistory #18thcentury #Rococo
Pan and Syrinx
Noël-Nicolas Coypel III - 1723
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#Coypel #Rococo #passionforpaintings #romanticfrenchsoul