Rococo

Rococo is a style of French interior design and art during the 18th Century. Rococo painters, inspired by the development of decorative arts and society during the period, used delicate pastel shades and curving forms, often instilling their works with undertones of frivolity and coquettishness. Promenading aristocratic couples were often set against pastoral scenes. This style was eventually supplanted by the Neo-Classic revivalist movement.


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Madame de Pompadour
François Boucher, 1758

Oil on canvas
72 × 57 cm, 28 x 22 in
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

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The Swing
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1767

Oil on canvas
83 x 66 cm, 32 x 26 in
Wallace Collection, London, UK

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Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Thomas Gainsborough, 1748-1750

Oil on canvas
70 x 119 cm
National Gallery, London, UK

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Mr. and Mrs. William Hallett
Thomas Gainsborough, 1785

Oil on canvas
236 cm x 179 cm
National Gallery, London, UK

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Rinaldo and Armida in the Garden
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1752

Oil on canvas
105 x 140 cm, 41 3/8 x 55 1/8 in
The Würzburg Residenz, Würzburg, Germany

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A Seated Man and a Girl with a Pitcher
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c.1755

Oil on canvas
160 x 54 cm, 62 7/8 x 21 1/4 in
National Gallery, London, UK

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Self Portrait in a Straw Hat
(Marie-Louise) Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
c. 1782

Oil on canvas
98 x 70.5 cm, 38 1/2 x 27 3/4 in
National Gallery, London, UK

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Madame Vigee-Le Brun and her Daughter
(Marie-Louise) Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1789

Oil on canvas
130 × 94 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

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Pilgrimage to Cythera
Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1717

Oil on canvas
129.5 x 194.5 cm, 51 x 76.5 in
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
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