The document discusses the Wallace Collection in London, highlighting its extensive collection of 18th-century French art, including notable painters such as François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It also addresses Dutch and Italian paintings, emphasizing the contributions of artists like Rembrandt and Canaletto. The collection serves as a significant resource for understanding European visual arts during the rococo and neoclassical periods.

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Wallace
Collection,
London
Painting Collection

2. 18th Century French Painting
French Paintings
“One of the best places in the UK
to see examples of French visual
and decorative arts of the Rococo
and Neoclassical periods is in the
Wallace Collection” Wikipedia on
18th-century French art.

4. Carle van Loo 1727

5. Lemoyne 1737
“Rococo” was an European artistic
movement in the 18th Century. Antoine
Watteau (1684-1721), Francois
Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Honore
Fragonard (1732-1806) were among
the more important French painters of
the movement.

6. Nattier 1733.
Orientalism in the 18C.

9. Boucher 1753.
Boucher was the most typical
Rococo decorator and the
friend and protégé of Madame
de Pompadour. He began as an
engraver of Watteau and won
the Prix de Rome in 1723. He
admired Tiepolo decorative
works.
Boucher more well-known painting of
Blonde Odalisque. APM.

10. Boucher 1754.
The is the detail of a set of
three paintings by
Boucher, on Greek
mythology on the life of
Venus. (see next slide).

11. Life of Venue. Boucher 1754.

12. Boucher 1754.
Venus was the Roman
goddess of love and fertility
and often symbolized visual
beauty. Beauty and desire
were the central concerns of
the 18C French art and
Venus is thus one of its most
commonly depicted deities.

13. Boucher 1759
Boucher was a friend and protégé of
Madame Pompadour.

15. Fragonard 1776
Fragonard studies under the
French painter Chardin for a few
months and then under Boucher
for about 2 years.

16. Fragonard 1785.

18. Vigee-Lebrun 1789

19. Greuze 1790s
Greuze (1725-1805) was a
popular French painter from
about 1755 to 1780. To the
modern eyes his paintings seem
sentimental and melodramatic.
He often extolled the simple
virtues of family harmony and the
simple life. His heroine appears
possessed of the heady
combination of sexual innocence
and emotional depth.

20. Dumont 1793
Francois Dumont (1751-1831) was a
miniaturist and a member of the
Royal Academy in London.
Marguerite Gerard was the sister-in-law of
Fragonard and studied under him.

21. Delaroche 1829
Delaroche was a painter of historical Romanticism.

22. Delacroix 1829
Delacroix most famous printing – Liberty
Leading the People
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
was an important painter of the
Romantic movement in France.
He is also a colourist.

23. Horace Vernet 1821
Wallace Collection has a very comprehensive collection on the painter Horace Vernet.

24. Horace Vernet 1820

25. Vernet 1633

26. Vernet 1636

27. Vernet 1637

28. Bonheur c1874
Head of a Calf. 1878. Private Collection.
Rosa Bonheur was an animal
printer. She painted domestic,
farm, working and wildlife
animals. She painted Brizo as an
intelligent and watchful dog.

29. Isabey 1852

30. Isabey 1852 (Detail)

31. Isabey 1852 (Detail)

32. Dutch Paintings
Bol 1650
There is a significant
collection of Dutch paintings
in the Wallace Collection,
by such artists as Frans
Hals, Rembrandt, Aelbert
Cuyp, Gabriel Metsu, Jan
Steen, Jan van Huysum etc.

34. Hals 1626 (Dutch).
This is a masterpiece portrait by Frans Hals. The Cavalier was 26 years old. Perhaps
it was painted to celebrates this enigmatic young man’s betrothal symbols of love
are depicted in the embroidery on his jacket.

36. Cuyp 1650s (Dutch).

37. Rembrandt 1657
Titus was the 4th child of
Rembrandt and the only
surviving child of Rembrandt.
After Rembrandt bankruptcy,
Titus was put in charge of
Rembrandt’s works and began
to sell his work for him. Titus
got marry and had a
daughter. In 1668, he died at
the age of 26, a year before
his father.

38. Metsu 1658
Gabriel Metsu (1629-67) was a
painter of still life, portraits and
genre.
One of Metsu more famous printing

40. Velde the Younger 1665.

41. Velde the Younger (Detail) 1665.

45. Italian
Paintings
Italian paintings make up the next
group of paintings. Many of these
paintings are views of Venice. There
are small collections of paintings
from other countries like the UK,
Spain etc.

48. Canaletto 1735

49. Canaletto 1735 (Detail)

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