The Mouseion · Europe 1300–1800 · Enlightenment & Revolution

Enlightenment & Revolution

Rococo pleasure gardens, then the cool lines of Neoclassicism, then revolution. The eighteenth century painted pleasure, reason and politics, often in the same decade.

Walk inThe whole museum

On the walls this month

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  Theodosius Repulsed from the Church by Saint Ambrose — Alessandro Magnasco (1667–1749), c. 1705, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Fountain of Venus — François Boucher (1703–1770), 1756, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  The Dreamer (La Rêveuse) — Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), 1712–14, Oil on panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Madame de Pastoret and Her Son — Jacques Louis David (1748–1825), 1791–92, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Interior of the Pantheon, Rome — Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691–1765), 1747, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Pastoral Scene — Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682–1754), 1740, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Dutton Family in the Drawing Room of Sherborne Park, Gloucestershire — Johann Zoffany (1733–1810), c. 1772, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  View of Rome — Pierre Henri de Valenciennes (1750–1819), c. 1782–84, oil on paper, mounted on board
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Dancers in a Pavilion — Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695–1736), 1720s, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  The Sacrifice of Isaac — Francesco Guardi (1712–1793), 1750s, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Lady at Her Toilette — Pietro Longhi (1702–1785), Late 1740s, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Portrait of Juan Maria Osorio — Agustín Esteve y Marques (1753–1820), c. 1786, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  A Mother Feeding her Child (The Happy Mother) — Willem van Mieris (1662–1747), 1707, Oil on panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Declaration of Love — Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743), c. 1720, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Saints Presenting a Devout Woman to the Virgin and Child — Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687–1767), 1720s, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Rinaldo and Armida in Her Garden — Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), c. 1742–45, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Garden of Palazzo Contarini dal Zaffo — Francesco Guardi (1712–1793), Late 1770s, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo — Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), c. 1742–45, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago

More of Europe 1300–1800

• The Renaissance — From gold-ground altarpieces to oil paint and perspective: two centuries in which painters in Florence, Venice, Bruges…
• The Golden Age — The seventeenth century: Caravaggio’s darkness and light, Rubens’s energy, Velázquez in Madrid, and in the Dutch…

Where the works come from

Every work in the Mouseion is a real piece, out of copyright everywhere, shown from the open collections of the museums that hold it — each label names the original’s museum and links to its page there.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access
• The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain collection
• The Cleveland Museum of Art — Open Access
• Wikimedia Commons — public-domain photographs of works held elsewhere