Academicians and landscape Painters

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Academicians and landscape Painters

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French Painting

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In the first half of the 19th century, the academic teachings of the official art school in Paris, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, dominated French painting. The Academy's rigorous training involved a prolonged period of drawing, first from plaster cast of statues and afterwards from life models.

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a particularly talented draughtsman who epitomized the classical, refined style, then in official favor. His portraits involved his subjects in countless sitting. The paintings of Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, by contrast, exhibit a freedom of brushwork and a use of color that was innovative at the time.

The increasing importance of landscape painting was recognized in 1817 when a Prix de Rome (Rome Prize) for historical landscape was established. By mid-century, the artists working near Barbizon in the Fontainebleau forest regarded landscape painting as the transcription of nature, and the distinction between sketches and finished studio works was blurred.

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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875)

The Four Times of Day : Morning
Landscape
Dimensions : 72 cm x 142 cm
1858

The Four Times of Day : Noon
Landscape
Dimensions : 62 cm x 142 cm
near 1858

The Four Times of Day : Evening
Landscape
Dimensions : 73 cm x 142 cm
near 1858

The Four Times of Day : Night
Landscape
Dimensions : 65 cm x 142 cm
near 1858

Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)

Young Ladies on the Bank of the Seine
Scène extérieure
Dimensions : 130 cm x 96 cm
approx. from 1850 to 1857

Beach Scene
Landscape
Dimensions : 55 cm x 38 cm
1874

Honoré-Victorien Daumier (1808-1879)

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Scène extérieure
Dimensions : 64 cm x 40 cm
near 1855

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Portrait of Louis-Auguste Schwiter (1805-1889)
Portrait
Dimensions : 1.44 m x 2.18 m
from 1826 to 1830

Ovid among the Scythians
Thème mythologique
Dimensions : 130 cm x 87 cm
1859

Christ on the Cross
Thème religieux
Dimensions : 60 cm x 74 cm
1853

Hippolyte Delaroche (Paul Delaroche) (1797-1856)

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554)
Thème historique
Dimensions : 2.97 m x 2.46 m
1833

Claude-Marie Dubufe (1790-1864)

The Surprise
Portrait
Dimensions : 54 cm x 62 cm
approx. from 1820 to 1827

Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault (1791-1824)

A Shipwreck
Scène extérieure
Dimensions : 73 cm x 92 cm
approx. from 1817 to 1818

A Horse frightened by Lightning
Animal
Dimensions : 60 cm x 49 cm
approx. from 1813 to 1814

Francesco Hayez (1791-1882)

Susannah at her Bath
Thème biblique
Dimensions : 1.22 m x 1.38 m
1850

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

Monsieur de Norvins (1769-1854)
Portrait
Dimensions : 79 cm x 97 cm
from 1811 to 1812

Angelica saved by Ruggiero
Thème mythologique
Dimensions : 40 cm x 48 cm
from 1819 to 1839

Pindar and Ictinus
Portrait de groupe
Dimensions : 28 cm x 35 cm
approx. from 1830 to 1867

Madame Moitessier
Portrait
Dimensions : 92 cm x 120 cm
1856

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)

The Whisper
Peasant and Child
Scène extérieure
Dimensions : 38 cm x 48 cm
near 1846

The Winnower
Scène intérieure
Dimensions : 75 cm x 101 cm
from 1847 to 1848

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)

Saint George and the Dragon
Thème religieux
Dimensions : 96 cm x 141 cm
from 1889 to 1890

Ary Scheffer (1795-1858)

Mrs Robert Hollond
Ellen Julia Teed (1822-1884)
Portrait
Dimensions : 60 cm x 82 cm
1851

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794-1872)

Ruth in Boaz's Field
Thème biblique
Dimensions : 59 cm x 70 cm
1828

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