Claude Perrault, with Louis Le Vau and Charles Lebrun. east facade of the Louvre. 1667–70.

The 18th and 19th Centuries

Nicolas Poussin. Landscape with St. John on Patmos. 1640. 40 x 53 1/2 in.

Peter Paul Rubens. The Disembarkation of Marie de’ Medici at the Port of Marseilles on November 3, 1600.

13 x 10 ft.

The Rococo = Baroque sensibilities with erotic and sensual messages; capturing the exuberant lifestyle of the time.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Bathers. c. 1765. 25 1/4 x 31 1/2 in.

Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. The Duchess of Polignac. 1783. 38 3/4 x 28 in.

Angelica Kauffmann. Cornelia, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures. c. 1785.

40 x 50 in.

Neoclassicism = Art the places moral virtue and “right action” above everything else; inspired by classical art (antiquity).

Jacques Louis David. The Death of Marat. 1793. 65 x 50 1/2 in.

Thomas Jefferson. Monticello. 1770–84; 1796–1806.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Grande Odalisque. 1814. 35 1/4 x 63 3/4 in.

Eugène Delacroix. Odalisque. 1845–50. 14 7/8 x 18 1/4 in.

Romanticism = Reality is a function of each individual’s singular point of view; loss of reason; interest in the sublime; overwhelming emotions or feelings

Francisco Goya. Saturn Devouring One of His Sons. 1820–22. 57 7/8 x 32 5/8 in.

Francisco Goya. from the Los Caprichos series.

Théodore Géricault. The Raft of the Medusa. 1819. 16 ft. 1 1/4 in. x 23 ft. 6 in.

Caspar David Friedrich. Monk by the Sea. 1809–10. 42 1/2 x 67 in.

Frederic Edwin Church. The Heart of the Andes. 1859. 66 1/8 x 119 1/4 in.

Eugène Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People. 1830. 8 ft. 6 3/8 in. x 10 ft. 8 in.

Ernest Meissonier. Memory of Civil War (The Barricades). 1849. 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.

Gustave Courbet. Burial at Ornans. 1849. 10 ft. 3 1/2 in. x 21 ft. 9 in.

Realism = Capturing and recording actual life, often with a high moral purpose

Honoré Daumier. Fight between Schools, Idealism and Realism. 1855.

Rosa Bonheur. Plowing in the Nivernais. 1849. 5 ft. 9 in. x 8 ft. 8 in.

Edouard Manet. Olympia. 1863. 51 x 74 3/4 in.

Edgar Degas. The Glass of Absinthe. 1876. 36 x 27 in.

Claude Monet. Impression-Sunrise. 1872. 19 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.

Impressionism = All about the pleasures of life; defined by a loose style, simple subjects and mundane observations

Auguste Renoir. La Moulin de la Galette. 1876. 51 1/2 x 69 in.

Berthe Morisot. Reading. 1873. 17 3/4 x 28 1/2 in.

Claude Monet. Bridge over a Pool of Water Lilies. 1899. 36 1/2 x 29 in.

James McNeill Whistler. Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket. c. 1875. 23 3/4 x 18 3/8 in.

Paul Gauguin. The Day of the Gods (Mahana no Atua). 1894. 26 7/8 x 36 1/8 in.

Post-Impressionism = exploring the symbolic possibilities of painting and expanding the formal innovations of the impressionists

Georges Seurat. The Bathers. 1883–84. 79 1/2 x 118 1/2 in.

Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Cherries and Peaches. 1885–87. 19 3/4 x 24 in.

Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley. 1882–85. 25 3/4 x 32 1/8 in.

Paul Cézanne. The Large Bathers. 1906. 82 x 99 in.