Enlightened Women

Marie Antoinette

Franz Xaver Wagenshon. 
Marie Antoinette. 1769 - 1770.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg
“I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.” - Marie Antoinette after being convicted of treason
Worksheet #3 Due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Proposition

Judith Leyster. The Proposition. 1631.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Judith_Leyster_The_Proposition.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Procuress

Dirck van Baburen.  The Procuress.  1622.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/baburen/procuress.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leyster Self-portrait

Judith Leyster. Self-Portrait. 1635.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Officers of the Haarlem Militia
Children and Cat

Leyster's Signature
Frans Hals. Officers of the Haarlem
Militia Company of Saint Adrian. c. 1627.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
Judith Leyster. Two Children and Cat . 1631.
http://www.reproarte.com/files/images/L/leyster_judith/0289-0133_zwei_kinder_mit_einer_katze.jpg
Leyster's signature
http://www.bluffton.edu/womenartists/
womenartistspw/leyster/leyster.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Sibylla Merian
1647 - 1717

 

Hyacinth

Maria Sibylla Merian.  Insect Metamorphosis.  1727.
http://seeing.nypl.org/assetts/enlarged/212x.jpg

 

Once described by a contemporary as "painter of flowers, fruits, birds, worms, flies, mosquitoes, spiders and other filth"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plate 69

Maria Sibylla Merian. Plate 69 from Dissertation in Insect Generations and Metamorphosis in Surinam. 1719.
Sterling, Susan Fisher. Women Artists: The National Museum of Women in the Arts. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1995.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merian published limited edition, color folios of her Surinam work for 45 guilders. At the time, a Norweigan sailor earned 9 guilders a month.
Surinam Portfolio
Merian's Surinam Folio
http://www.wissensbild.de/images/img014a.jpg

 

more Merian work

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Historic Context

Louis XIV

Hyacinthe Rigaud. Louis XIV. 1701.
Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya, Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Twelfth ed. Vol. 1. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 2005. 2 vols.
18th century The Age of Enlightenment
1643 -1715
Reign of Louis XIV - "The Sun King"
1660 - 1774 Rococo
1715 - 1774
Reign of Louis XV
1760 - 1830
Industrial Revolution
1763 - 1781
American Revolution
1774 - 1792
Reign of Louis XVI
1793
Loius XVI & Marie Antoinette tried for treason and beheaded
1789 - 1799
French Revolution
Late 18th to early 19th centuries Neoclassicism
Romanticism
1799 - 1814
Napoleon controls France

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Versailles Palace

Louis Le-Vau and Jules Hardoin-Mansart. Versailles Palace. 1668 - 85.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Versailles_Palace.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hall of Mirrors

Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun. Hall of Mirrors, Palais de Versailles.
Begun 1678.  Approx. 240' in length.
http://members.shaw.ca/mloukko2/images/108-0895_CRW.jpg