Ode on the Eighteenth Century

Candlesticks, 1700s, Poland.

Design for Ceiling. 18th century. Credit line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/365469

🐅 Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques A Paris: Chez Briasson . . David . . Le Breton . . Durand . ., 1762-1772.

Teapot. ca. 1752–55. Credit line: The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/208369

Nymph and Satyr, or Jupiter and Antiope, Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1715 (detail)

Coat

c. 1785

Possibly from Italy

Kent State University Museum

Salisbury, New Hampshire

built in 1790

A Poison Tree by William Blake, published in 1794 as part of his Songs of Experience collection. 

Joseph Wright of Derby (English,1734-1797)

Portrait of Mrs. Robert Gwillym, 1766

Oil on canvas

1793 (detail) Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

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Portrait of Maria Teresa of Naples and Sicily, after Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, after 1790

Girl Holding a Dove

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806)

Fragonard, after the French Revolution, returned to Paris where he died in 1806, almost completely forgotten. For half a century or more he was so completely ignored that Lübke in his History of Art (1873) omits the very mention of his name. Subsequent reevaluation has confirmed the influence of Fragonard’s handling of color and expressive, confident brushstroke on the Impressionists (particularly Renoir) and his position among the all-time masters of French painting.

• Gold mourning ring with a painted eye.

Date: 1794

Place of origin: England

Medium: Gold, glass, enamel