Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Fantasies of Happiness from 18th-century Europe

Charles Joseph Flipart
Gathering in a garden
18th century
oil on canvas
Prado

"The artist painted happy lovers or small groups of friends, usually outdoors in blooming gardens, busy amusing themselves or being entertained with music. Often actors still in costume mingle with aristocrats, and are caught conversing, dancing, listening to music, and exchanging pleasantries under tall trees that function as a backdrop."

 from an essay by Daniela Tarabra on the subject of fêtes galantes in European Art of the Eighteenth Century (Getty Museum, 2008)

Johann Joachim Kändler for Meissen Manufactory
 The Thrown Kiss
ca. 1736
porcelain
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater
Concert champêtre
ca. 1734
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Claude-Joseph Vernet
View near Sorrento 
ca. 1745-50
oil on canvas
Prado

Antonio Carnicero-Mancio
Ascension of Montgolfier's Balloon at Aranjuez
1784
oil on canvas
Prado

Nicolas Lancret
Before the costume ball
18th century
oil on copper
Hermitage 

Louis-Jean François Lagrenée
Diana and Endymion
1768
oil on canvas
Swedish National Museum

Angelica Kauffman
Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso
1782
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hubert Robert
Portico of a country mansion
1773
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Francisco de Goya
San Isidro Meadow with view of Madrid
1788
tapestry cartoon
Prado

attributed to Andreas Altomonte
Masked ball in Bohemia
ca. 1748
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Corrado Giaquinto
Triumph of Galatea
ca. 1752
oil on canvas
Louvre

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater
The Golden Age 
18th century
oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Peeter van Bloemen
Campo Vacino, Rome
1704
oil on canvas
Prado