European and American Art, 1715 - 1840

Question 1

Jacques - Louis David Oath of the Horatii

Answer 1

1784 - 1785
Spent six years in rome, studying sculptures, building, in which he would bring back to Paris
Responded to a wave and move of history meaning - anything known from the ancient times, Biblical times, etc
Three sons standing with their arms outstretched towards their father
In David’s painting, the Horatii stand with arms outstretched toward their father, who reaches toward them with the swords on which they pledge to fight and die for Rome.

Question 2

Anne Louis Girodet - Trioson Portrait of Jean Baptiste Belley

Answer 2

1797
Girodet (Fig. 1) painted this powerful portrait of Haitian revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Belley in 1797 during the Directoire period of the French Revolution

Jean-Baptiste Belley (1746–1805) was a representative of the National Convention in Paris from 1794 and was one of its first three Black deputies

Theme of politics, specifically freedom

While the French government was extremely racially unequal, Belley was far from the only Black man in government

Shows the previously enslaved man, and is reestablishing

Question 3

Benjamin West The Death of General Wolfe

Answer 3

1770
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Founders of the british royal academy
This painting was shocking as there was an element of reality
Was also romanticized

Question 4

Eugene Delacroix Liberty Leading the People

Answer 4

1830
Encapsulates the history of France
Over the course of three days, the July monarchy took place