Tag: 1769

Veduta dell’Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore (1765-1775)

Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Veduta dell’Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore (View of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore) 1765–1775 Oil on canvas, 43 x 61 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Master of the townscape -known as vedute in Italian- Guardi painted many…

Portrait d’un homme en costume (1768-1770)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Portrait d’un homme en costume (Portrait of a Man in Costume) 1768–1770 Oil on canvas, 80.3 × 64.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Jean-Honoré Fragonard is perhaps best known for his light-hearted, amorous subjects, which seem to embody…

La Liseuse (c.1769)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) La Liseuse (Young Girl Reading) c.1769 Oil on canvas, 81.1 x 64.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the lap up, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a goldenrod-yellow dress, sits reading a small book,…

Dame au chien (c.1769)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Dame au chien (A Woman with a Dog) c.1769 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting belongs to a celebrated group of Fragonards known as the fantasy figures. The canvas…

Stigmatizzazione di San Francesco (1767-1769)

Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Stigmatizzazione di San Francesco (Stigmatization of Saint Francis) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 278 x 153 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A depiction of a miracle in the life of Saint Francis of Assisi that took place in…

L’Immacolata Concezione (1767-1769)

Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) L’Immacolata Concezione (The Immaculate Conception) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 281 x 155 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This majestic image was part of a cycle of seven altarpieces commissioned in 1767 for the new royal church of…