The Enlightenment 2

Question 1

The Swing

Answer 1

Jean-Honore Fragonard from 1766 in France

• The painting depicts a dangerous liason which involves inappropriate sexual acts
• The shoe flying off the woman’s foot is a symbol of orgasm
• The man handing out his hat is symbol of male orgasm
• Currently in the Wallace Collection in London
• Two copies exists of the painting, neither of them by Fragonard

Question 2

The Progress of Love: The Pursuit

Answer 2

Jean-Honore Fragonard from 1771-72 in France

• Apart of series of paintings done for Madame du Barry
• The paintings were made as private pieces for her salon
• The woman tripping over is a symbol of falling in love
• The landscape is considered to be Rubenisian
• Apart of the Frick Collection in New York

Question 3

The Progress of Love: The Meeting

Answer 3

Jean-Honore Fragonard from 1771-72 in France

• Apart of series of paintings done for Madame du Barry
• The paintings were made as private pieces for her salon
• Depicts dangerous liasons taking place in a forest where two people meet in secret
• The landscape is considered to be Rubenisian
• Apart of the Frick Collection in New York

Question 4

The Progress of Love: The Lover Crowned

Answer 4

Jean-Honore Fragonard from 1771-72 in France

• Apart of series of paintings done for Madame du Barry
• The paintings were made as private pieces for her salon
• The painting depicts the act of sex between a couple
• The landscape is considered to be Rubenisian
• Apart of the Frick Collection in New York

Question 5

The Progress of Love: The Love Letters

Answer 5

Jean-Honore Fragonard from 1771-72 in France

• Apart of series of paintings done for Madame du Barry
• The paintings were made as private pieces for her salon
• Depicts the exchange of letters between lovers for understanding and friendship
• The landscape is considered to be Rubenisian
• Apart of the Frick Collection in New York

Question 6

The Visit to the Nursery

Answer 6

Jean-Honore Fragonard from 1770-75 in France

• Fragonard’s attempt to revive his career after the failure of The Progress of Love series
• Conveys an image of familial love between parents and children
• The idea secularizes the holy family aka the Trinity and Jesus earth parents
• The subject is taken from a French novel about a woman who refuses an arranged marriage then ends up marring a farmer
• Currently in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC

Question 7

Marie Antoinette en chemise

Answer 7

Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun from 1783 in France

• En chemise is the dress worn in the painting which is not as elaborate as the court dresses
• Marie Antoinette was the wife of Louis XVI
• LeBrun produced 30 portraits of Antoinette
• Currently in the Schlossmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany
• The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1783

Question 8

Marie Antoinette and her Children

Answer 8

Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun from 1787 in France

• Marie Antoinette was the wife of Louis XVI
• LeBrun produced 30 portraits of Antoinette
• National Museum of the Palace of Versailles
• The painting conveys the theme of a good mother