#classic pillars

[galleryofart]

Maternal Affection

Artist: Louis Jean François Lagrenée (French, 1725-1805)

Date: 1755

Medium: Oil on Copper

Collection: The National Gallery, London

Description

In this exquisite small painting on copper, three women are looking after two infants in a grand neoclassical setting. One woman breastfeeds an infant, while another holds up a second baby for a kiss. A woman to the left is busy arranging bedding in a wooden cradle. The open loggia and warm light suggest that the scene takes place in a southern climate. To an eighteenth-century audience, the women’s clothing would have been understood as antique Roman dress.

The painting shares similarities with a series of eight paintings by Lagrenée at Stourhead in Wiltshire. It may be Lagrenée’s painting formerly at Stourhead, described as ‘Maternal Affection – a beautiful group’. The subject was of special interest for a contemporary audience as motherhood, and particularly the practice of breastfeeding one’s own children rather than sending them out to a wet nurse, was much discussed in both France and England at the time.

[mythological-art]

Cupid Fleeing from Slavery

Artist: Joseph-Marie Vien (French, 1716–1809)

Date: 1789

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France

Description

"Cupid Fleeing From Slavery" depicts the Roman god of love, Cupid, escaping from a situation where he is being held captive, often symbolized by chains or bonds, usually with a frantic and energetic movement, signifying his desire for freedom and the inherent power of love to break free from constraints; it's a classic representation of love's rebellious nature and its resistance to being controlled

[art-allegory]

Allegory of Dialect

Artist: Laurent de la Hyre (French, 1606-1656)

Date: 1650

Medium: OIl on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Description

This eloquent and noble Allegories of Rhetoric was originally made for a suite of paintings executed by La Hyre in 1649 and 1650. Depicting the Seven Liberal Arts that are the foundation of classical education as codified in Antiquity – Arithmetic, Astronomy, Geometry, Grammar and Music, as well as Dialectic and Rhetoric – the set of paintings were likely installed around the walls of a single, grand room in the house of Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux (1613-1668), a member of the Council of State, who resided on rue d’Angoûlmois in the Marais quarter of Paris. Although today scattered in collections throughout the world, all of the paintings in La Hyre’s original series have survived and can be identified, as well as several replicas most likely from the artist’s workshop.

[art-portraits]

Daniel Crommelin Verplanck

Artist: John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)

Date: 1771

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (1762–1834) was born in New York and spent the early part of his life in the family home on lower Wall Street. He was the eldest son of Judith Crommelin and Samuel Verplanck. While attending Columbia College (formerly King's College), he married Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of the president of Columbia. They had two children. Following her death in 1789, Verplanck married Ann Walton, with whom he had seven children. They lived on Wall Street until 1803 and then moved to Fishkill-on-Hudson, New York. He represented Dutchess County in Congress from 1803 until 1809. The portrait was painted in 1771 when Daniel was nine years old. The background has traditionally been identified as a view from the Verplanck country house at Fishkill, looking toward Mount Gulian.

[illustratus]

[lovehina019]

[m0rninglatte]

"I'm sorry I left without saying goodbye"

"I just want to go home"

[royalty-nobility]

Edward Smith Stanley (1752–1834), Twelfth Earl of Derby, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby (Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, 1753–1797), and Their Son (Edward Smith Stanley, 1775–1851)

Artist: Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741–1807)

Date: ca. 1776

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

In an imagined interior brimming with references to classical antiquity, this young aristocratic family makes a highly fashionable display of domestic bliss. The countess’s costume is vaguely classical, while her husband wears stylish fancy dress inspired by Van Dyck’s portraits from a century before. Unfortunately, the marriage was an unhappy one; roughly two years after Kauffmann painted this portrait, the countess left her husband for a lover. After her death, he married the actress Elizabeth Farren, whose celebrated portrait by Thomas Lawrence hangs in Gallery 628.

[welcome-to-neighborhood-park]

Can I tell Frank a joke? Okay, okay:

Did you see the butterfly recently?

Yes?

That’s weird, I didn’t think butter was supposed to do that.

Should Frank not enjoy that joke, I would like to see what it would get me at Howdy’s shop.

Frank is now giving me the silent treatment xD he keeps rotating his head away from me lol

Eddie was there to and once it clicked i got a bit of a chuckle out of him!

Howdy says he's heard that one a lot, so he'd only give you a small discount on a treat of some kind (candy, cookie, small milkshake, etc)

[floral-art-prints]

The Roses of Heliogabalus by Lawrence Alma Tadema (1888, Öl auf Leinwand)

[whalefill]

haven't been posting much art lately because i am so so tired but i wanted to share this simple lil redraw! first one was done five years ago at the beginning of 2018, when i got my first wacom tablet :)

[mythological-art]

Achilles Discovered Among the Daughters of Lycomedes

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens

Genre: Mythological Painting

Date: 1630 -1635

Medium: Oil on Panel

Collection: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Disguised as a woman, Achilles lived on Scyros among the daughters of King Lycomedes until the Greeks discovered his whereabouts and sent Odysseus and Diomedes to the island to fetch him. The two presented themselves as pedlars and placed a collection of trinkets before the young women.

[art-portraits]

A Portrait of Thomas Hope in Turkish Costume

Artist: Henry Bone (British, 1755–1834)

Date: Early 19th Century

Medium: Enamel on Copper

Collection: Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Description

The sitter seen in this portrait is Thomas Hope (1770 – 1831). A collector, designer and writer. Thomas Hope, was the scion of a Scottish family of bankers. He is known for introducing neo-classical taste to England. Hope opened for public viewing his home containing his collection of ancient and contemporary art. He published his research on the subject of interior decorating in 1807, in a book titled Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, which was very influential during the Regency period. In the years 1787-1795 Hope toured Mediterranean countries. In this portrait, Hope has been depicted in Turkish costume and a mosque is visible in the background. His costume, pipe, headdress and the dagger in his belt, resembles the kalyoncu engraving in Choiseul-Gouffier’s album Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce. On the back of the picture it is written that in this depiction, Hope is wearing his “Galcondgi” costume, which he used to wear in the Orient. The oil version of this portrait, of unknown date, by Sir William Beechey, which today is at the National Portrait Gallery, was exhibited for the first time in 1799.

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