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Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, king of Sparta

Academician / American / British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, king of Sparta” of 1768 by Benjamin West.  This is gigantic canvas painting is over sixty feet wide and 45 feet high.  The American artist West displayed it at the second exhibition of the Royal Academy.  He had established himself as the leading London artist depicting scenes from Classical History after his studies in Italy.  This painting depicts a famous scene from Spartan history when Leonidas II returned from having been deposed by his son-in-law.  The pleadings of his daughter Chilonis saved the rebel’s life who was banished rather than executed.  This work is 1854 cm wide and 1384 cm high and is in the Tate Museum in London.

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Boy in Blue

Academician / British / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Boy in Blue” of 1770 by Thomas Gainsborough.  This is his most famous work and is regarded as a homage to Anthony van Dyke influenced by the Belgian artist’s portrait of Charles II as a boy.  The painting remained in private hands until 1921 when it was sold by the second duke of Westminster to the art dealer Joseph Duveen in 1921.  The painting was then sold to the American railway pioneer Henry Huntingdon amid public outcry in Britain.  Gainsborough was forty-three when he completed this masterpiece, a year after he began exhibiting works to the Royal Academy.  He gained a national reputation but ceased displaying at the academy in 1773.  He moved to London the next year and became favored by the court of George III.  He continued to be a favorite of the royal family until his death I n1780.  This work is 122 cm wide and 178 cm high and is in the Huntington Art Gallery in San Marino, California.

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Ruins of Nimes, Orange and St-Remy

Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Ruins of Nimes, Orange and Saint-Remy-de-Provence” by Hubert Robert of 1789.  This French artist was fifty-six when he created this masterpiece.  He was born in Paris and in 1754 went to Rome in the entourage of the ambassador from the French court.  He spent eleven years there and supported himself in the latter years through his work as an artist.  He returned to Paris is 1765 and soon became a success in the art circles.  He was imprisoned during the Revolution and was almost executed during the Terror.  He was released after the death of Robespierre.  He became one of the directors of the new museum of the Louvre and continued his success focusing on Neoclassical works.  He died in Paris on April 15, 1808.  The original of this masterpiece is on display at the Bode-Museum In Berlin.

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The Return of Marcus Sextus

Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Return of Marcus Sextus” of 1799 by Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guerin.  This masterpiece was a success at the Salon of 1799 being an allegory of the return of the the émigrés following the extremes of the Terror during the French Revolution.  Marcus Sextus is a fictional character returning home from having fled the proscriptions of the Roman dictator Sulla.  He returns to find his wife has died and his daughter is beside herself with grief.  The artist was twenty-five years old when he created this masterpiece and he was able to study in Italy after the sensation caused by this painting.  He continued popular through the Napoleonic Period and in the Restoration as well.  He became director of the French Academy in Rome in 1822 and was created Baron Guerin in 1828.  In an effort to regain his broken health, Guerin returned to Rome in 1833 where he died on July 6.  This masterpiece measures 243 cm wide and 217 cm high.  It is in the Musee de Louvre, Paris.

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Thomas Jefferson

Academician / American / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Portrait of Thomas Jefferson” of 1800 by Rembrandt Peale.  Please was thirty-two when he painted the soon-to-be third president of the United States.  He was native of Pennsylvania and was taught painting by his father.  He was introduced to George Washington in 1787 and he made his debut seven years later with a portrait of the first president.  He studied and worked in Europe on several occasions and was influenced by the Neoclassicism of David and others.  He continued a successful career primarily as a protraitist and died at the advanced age of 82 on October 3, 1860.  The original of this masterpiece is in the White House, Washington, D. C.

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The Athenaeum

American / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of Gilbert Stuart’s “The Athenaeum” which was begun in 1796.  Stuart never finished the original painting and sold his own copies of it for $ 100 each.  He was forty-one when he produced this masterpiece which has been used as the template for the one-dollar bill and many United States postage stamps and other documents.  Stuart went on to become the foremost American portraitist and completed paintings of the first six American presidents.  Originally from Rhode Island, he died on July 9, 1828.  The original of this masterpiece measures 88 by 101 cm and is in the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Ossian on the Bank of the Lora

French / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Ossian on the Bank of the Lora invoking the Gods to the Strains of a Harp” by Francois Pascal Simon Gerard of 1801.  This French baron was thirty-one when he created this masterpiece.  He was born in Rome of a French baron and an Italian lady.  He studied under David and became involved in the French Revolution.  At the same time he rose in the estimation of art connoisseurs and he became known as one of the foremost portraitists by 1799.  He was aghast at the rise of Romanticism after 1815 and died on January 11, 1837.  This painting is based on the Poem of Ossian which was an early nineteenth century forgery which was largely believed by an entire generation including Jefferson, Napoleon and Goethe.    The painting is 180.5 cm wide and 198.5 cm high.  The masterpiece is currently in the Kuntstalle, Hamburg, Germany.

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Cincinnatus Abandons the Plow

Academician / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) / Spanish - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of ” Cincinato abandona el arado para dictar leyes a Roma ” by Juan Antonio Ribera of 1806.  This is a pivotal scene from the history of the early Roman Republic.  At the urging of his countrymen during an existential crisis, Cincinnatus unwillingly abandons his simple farm to take up command of the Roman Republic.  The constitution of the early democracy had a provision for one man to take total control of the state and this burden Cincinnatus took up.  Ribera was twenty-seven when he produced this masterpiece which is a fine example of his Neoclassical style.  He studied in Paris under David and in 1811 became court painter to the exiled Charles IV of Spain.  He continued as court painter under Ferdinand VII and Isabella II and directed what became the Museo del Prado for three years before his death in Madrid in 1860.

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Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau

French / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau” by Antoine-Jean Gros of 1808.  Gros was a disciple of the Neoclassicist David, but departed from those norms in this epochal painting.  Napoleon’s compassion towards the dead and wounded is depicted with focus in the foreground of huge corpses.  Gros was thirty-seven when he produced this masterpiece and he was at the height of his career.  His later life was focused on an increasing failure to stem the tide of Romanticism.  He died at his own hand on June 25, 1835.  The original of this masterpiece is in the Louvre and is 784 cm wide and 521cm high.

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Mars désarmé par Vénus, Jacques-Louis David, 1824

David / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 10 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Mars Disarmed by Venus” of 1825 by Jacques-Louis David.  This masterpiece was one of the last produced by the French master of Neoclassicism after forty-three years of creating masterpieces.  He began this work in Brussels at the age of seventy-three.  The monumental painting depicts the removal of the armor of Mars by the three Graces and Cupid.  The painting was exhibited in Paris just before David’s death and was hailed as the bridge between Classicism and Romanticism.  The original painting is 265 cm wide and 308 cm high and is in the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels.

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