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Paintings depicting the French French Revolution that began in 1789 Pages in category "Paintings about the French Revolution" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The Battle of Valmy is an 1826 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. [1] [2] It depicts the Battle of Valmy, one of the earliest battles of the French Revolutionary Wars fought on 20 September 1792. [3] The revolutionary French troops defeated an advance by a coalition of Foreign forces under the command of the Duke of Brunswick. [4]
Enthusiastic about the new ideas of the day, he produced more than sixty drawings or "tableaux historiques" (historical scenes) showing episodes from the French Revolution, now held at the Musée Carnavalet. He was a member of the 'section du Faubourg-Poissonnière' and in September 1793 a jury member on the revolutionary tribunal.
Pages in category "Paintings of the French Revolution" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. M.
Louis XVI as a citizen-king, painting by Carteaux Born in 1751, Carteaux followed the career of a painter, producing several works including a portrait of King Louis XVI on horseback. Following the French Revolution , he became a General and given a command of the Army of the Alps , despite the fact he had received no military training.
The Tennis Court Oath (Le Serment du Jeu de paume) by David. The Tennis Court Oath (French: Le Serment du Jeu de paume) is an incomplete painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, painted between 1790 and 1794 and showing the titular Tennis Court Oath at Versailles, one of the foundational events of the French Revolution.
By the time Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People, he was already the acknowledged leader of the Romantic school in French painting. [4] Delacroix, who was born as the Age of Enlightenment was giving way to the ideas and style of romanticism, rejected the emphasis on precise drawing that characterised the academic art of his time, and instead gave a new prominence to freely brushed colour.
The latter half of the 18th century continued to see French preeminence in Europe, particularly through the arts and sciences, and the French language was the lingua franca of the European courts. The French academic system continued to produce artists, but some, like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , explored new and ...