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Jun 11 2011
Time Saving Truth from Falsehood
Academician / Baroque / French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy” of 1737 by Francois Lemoyne. This allegorical Rococo masterpiece was produced when Lemoyne was fifty-nine years old and completed the day before his suicide. He began his studies when he was thirteen and won the Prix de Rome in 1711. Seven years later at the age of thirty he became a member of the Academie and became a professor in 1733. He led in the in the fashion of large allegorical paintings which disappeared upon his death on June 4, 1737. His suicide was probably prompted by insanity which overcame him after the death of his wife.
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May 31 2011
Blind Man’s Bluff
Academician / French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Blindekuhspiel” of 1776 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. This French artist was forty-four when he created this Late Rococo landscape depicting a game of blind man’s bluff. The vivid colors and veiled sensuality were precursors of later Romanticism. He won the Prix de Rome in 1752 and four years later arrived at the Eternal City at the age of twenty-four. He became influenced by the Dutch Masters and by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and returned to Paris in 1761 where he entered the Academy within four years. He became a great favorite of the members of the court of Louis XV but fled Paris at the outset of the French Revolution. He lived quietly in the south of France until near his death when he returned to Paris where he died in 1806. This work is 198 cm wide and 216 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.
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