c. 1715 - 1774

c. 1715 - 1774

“Rococo Art was as decorative and

nonfunctional as the effete aristocracy that embraced it.”

► Light, elaborate, decorative style.►Centered in France & associated with Louis XV.► Pastels, non-serious subject matter.► A backlash to the darkness of the Baroque --> less formal & grandiose.► Often portrays the lifestyle of the nobility. “Fete galante”► Eventually replaced by Neo-Classicism, the artistic style of the American & French Revolutions.

Louis XV

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

“Pilgrimage to Cythera”

“The Pleasures of the Ball”

“The Pleasures of Life”

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The Swing

The See-Saw

Fragonard

From “The

Progress of Love”,

“The Stolen Kiss”

From “The Progress of Love”

“Love Crowned”

François Boucher

“La Toilette”

“The Marquis de Pompadou

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“Leda and the Swan”

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842)

Madamdu

Barry

MarieAntoinette

“Blue Boy” & “Pinkie”Thomas Gainsborough

“Portrait of a Lady in Blue”

Thomas Gainsboro

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Late 1770s

“Mary,Countess

Howe”

Thomas Gainsboro

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Late 1760

Sans Souci, Frederick the Great’s Palace in Potsdam

Germany

Sans Souci,

Frederick’s Music Room

Rococo Room,Frick Museum

Arts & Sciences

Boucher

Rococo Chairs