Convention of 1800 Kids Drawings
October 2, 2009, through January 10, 2010
Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings features more than eighty exceptional drawings almost exclusively from the Morgan's renowned holdings. The efflorescence of the ancien régime and its eventual downfall provide the backdrop to a century of remarkable artistic vitality and variety that subtly chronicles the many changes taking place in eighteenth-century France. Artists represented in the exhibition include among others Antoine Watteau, Jacques-Louis David, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Claude Gillot, Nicolas Lancret, Hubert Robert, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Anne-Louis Girodet, and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.
The royal court and wealthy Parisian merchants defined the artistic sensibility of the early decades of the century. This exuberant style, called rococo, eventually assimilated the burgeoning classicism of the Enlightenment. Later, a more formally austere Neoclassicism developed with the triumph of "reason" and the stirrings of the Revolution.
The Rococo initially flourished during the waning years of Louis XIV's reign (r. 1661–1715) and serves as a starting point for the exhibition. Works by artists active at the French Academy in Rome during its greatest years, coinciding with the rule of Louis XV (r. 1715–1774), document the robust role of drawing in artistic practice during mid-century. The exhibition concludes with works executed during the last decades of the ancien régime, under Louis XVI (r. 1774–1792), and the onset of the Revolution, as artists embraced the rigorous Neoclassical style. Contextually, the exhibition also touches on developments and changes in patronage, fashion, theater, and literature in Paris at this time.
This exhibition is made possible by a generous gift from an anonymous donor. Additional support is provided by Nancy Schwartz, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Vaughn, Jr., and Stephen A. Geiger.
Antoine Watteau (1684–1721)
Seated Young Woman, ca. 1716
Black, red, and white chalk
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911; I, 278a
Selected images
Study of a Lady of Fashion
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978
(Louis Carrogis 1717–1806)
Portrait of a Lady Seated by a Fire
Purchased on the Walter C. Baker Fund
Portraits of the Artist's Family and Servants
Purchased on the Lois and Walter C. Baker Fund
Louis Nicolas de Lespinasse
View of Two Banks of the Seine, Paris
Purchased on the Lois and Walter C. Baker Fund
A View of the Top of the Cascade at the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati
Bequest of Miss Alice Tully
Anacreon in His Old Age Crowned by Love, before 1762
Bequest of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus
Draftsman in an Italian Church
Study for a Portrait of Empress Joséphine, 1805
Bequest of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus
Meeting at the Carrefour du Puits du Roi, Compiègne forest, or Le Botté du Roi (The Booting of the King), ca. 1733
Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund with the special assistance of the International Music and Art Foundation
Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
The Lesson of the Chemist Sage at the Hôtel des Monnaies, 1779
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson
Phaedra Confesses Her Love for Hippolytus to Oenone
Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund, the Gordon Ray Fund, and as the gift of Mrs. John Hay Whitney
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows
Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1761–62
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911
Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre
Le Misanthrope, Act II, scene IV, ca. 1750–55
Purchased as the gift of Joan Taub Ades and on the Lois and Walter C. Baker Fund
Interior of a Park: The Gardens of Villa d'Este
Convention of 1800 Kids Drawings
Source: https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/rococo-and-revolution
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