Patriotism and Virtue: David to the Young Ingres Thomas Crow Eisenman Chapter 1

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Patriotism and VirtueDavid to the Young
IngresThomas CrowEisenman Chapter 1
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Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825),
Belasarius Begging Alms, 1781, oil on canvas,
95 x 103
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Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii
Between the Hands of their Father, 1785, oil on
canvas, c. 1010 x 1311
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Elizabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, Portrait of the
Artist With Her Daughter, 1789, oil on canvas, c.
41 x 33 in.
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Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Marie-Antoinette with Her
Children, 1787, oil on canvas, c. 9 x 85 in.
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Adélaide Labille-Guiard (French, 1749-1803),
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, 1785, oil on
canvas, 83 x 59 Metropolitan MA, NYC
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Jacques-Louis David (French, 17481825), The
Death of Socrates, 1787, oil on canvas, 51 x 77 ¼
in. How has Davids representation of ideal
masculinity changed since the Horatii of 1785?
Why?The subject is loosely based on Plato's
Phaedo, but David also consulted Diderot's
treatise on dramatic poetry of 1758, works by the
poet André Chenier, and other sources.
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Jacques-Louis David, Lictors Returning to Brutus
the Bodies of His Sons, 1789, oil on canvas, c.
107 x 1310
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What mix of emotions does Davids sketch for the
face of Brutus portray? What might that say
about the artists own changed political
convictions since Horatii?
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Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Tennis
Court, 1791, pen, bistre wash, and white
highlights on paper, c. 26 x 41 in
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Jacques-Louis David, Marat at His Last Breath
(Death of Marat), 1793, oil on canvas, c. 64 x 49
in.
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Jacques-Louis Davis, The Intervention of the
Sabine Women, 1799, oil on canvas, c. 128 x 17
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David, Napoleon at the St. Bernard Pass, 1800,
oil on canvas, c. 810 x 77
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Anne-Louise Girodet (French, 1767-1824), The
Sleep of Endymion, 1791, oil on canvas, c. 19 x
24 in. Endymion, a man of ideal beauty, put into
a sleep of eternal youth, is being visited at
night by the moon goddess Selene in the form of a
moonbeam. Eros/Zephyr moves the foliage aside
for her.
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François Gérard, Cupid and Psyche, 1798, oil on
canvas, 73 x 52in, LouvreExplain Endymions
sealed envelope of flesh delivered to a strain
of precious eroticism that sought a place beyond
the vicissitudes of political orthodoxy. (Crow)
Porcelain statues in a landscape?
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Anne-Louis Girodet, Portrait of Jean-Baptiste
Belley, 1797, oil on canvas, 63 x 45in . Belley
wears the uniform of a Convention member. His
elbow rests on a bust of the philosopher
Guillaume-Thomas Raynal (17131796), author of A
Philosophical and Political History of the
Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the
East and West Indies (1770). Raynal, who had
just died, had been a supporter of the abolition
of slavery in the colonies and full citizenship
for blacks, secured in France in 1794.
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John Flaxman (English, 1755-1826) The Fight for
the Body of Patroclus, from Illustrations to
Homers Iliad, 1793, engraving, 6.5 x 13 in.
How influential was Flaxman on French painting
and sculpture? Where did the French artists see
his work and meet him?
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John Flaxman, from Illustrations to Homers
Iliad, 1793engraving, 6.5 x 13 in.
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Constance Charpentier (French, 1767-1849)
Melancholy, 1801, oil on canvas, 52 x 66 in.
What meaning does Crow give to the high contrast
of light and dark and the shift to allegory in
the Davidian school?
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Jean Broc (French, 1780-1850), The Death of
Hyacinth, 1801, oil on canvas, 175 x 120 cmMusée
Rupert de Chièvres, Poitiers. What is the effect
of the never-never land backdrop and back
lighting on the classical narrative?
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French,
1780-1867), Napoleon I on the Imperial Throne,
1806, oil on canvas, 259 x 162 cm, Musée de
l'Armée, Paris
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Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1862, oil on canvas, 42
½ in diameter. Licked finish as a shield
against the self- exposure of overt Romanticism?
What is orientalism?
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Valpincon
Bather, 1808, oil on canvas, 146 x 97 cm, Louvre,
Paris. Painted almost 50 years before The
Turkish Bath.
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Charles Meynier (French, 1768-1832), Adolescent
Eros Weeping over the Portrait of the Lost
Psyche, Salon of 1795, 60x79.5 in., Musée des
Beaux-Artes, Quimper. According to
Solomon-Godeau, what role does the cameo/mirror
play? How does it signify utopian erotics?
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Louis Lagrenée, (French, 1725-1805) Psyche
Surprising the Sleeping Eros, 1769, oil on
circular canvas, diam. 47 ½ in. Louvre, Paris.
How does Solomon-Godeau distinguish the
masculinity of Lagrenées Rococo Psyche from
Girodets Neoclassical Endymion (1791)?
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Hippolyte Flandrin (French, 1809-1864) Theseus
Recognized by his Father, 1832, oil on canvas.
Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
How, according to Solomon-Godeau, does this
painting signal the end of history painting and
with it the neoclassical ephebe?