Description : "The naked child as a subject is as old as art itself. This series catalogues the many examples and discusses the issues around the naked child."
Théophile Auguste Vauchelet What’s interesting about these is that they are allegories of the pre-Fall innocence of children – little Adams and Eves.
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Another female painter… who tragically died young. Marie Madeleine Rignot-Dubaux (1857-87). This is Ne la reveillex pas …(do not wake up). It’s an odd painting. Obviously an allegory, but of what? Perhaps innocence – the title is a command to not wake up from the
Don’t know much about Jules-Alexis Muenier (1863-1942). This is La jeune modele posant dans l’atelier (A young model posing in the studio).
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I had mentioned Eugène Delacroix in the entry on photographer Eugéne Durieu (here), at that time I hadn’t found any examples of Delacroix doing a child or adolescent nude, but now I have. Here’s Académie de jeune femme, 1838.
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Eugène Emmanuael Amaury Duval studied with Ingres. The first painting is in black and white because it is a reproduction from the official catalogue to the Centenary Exhibition of the art of France, 1800-1889 (l’Exposition centennale de la l’art Français…). That it appeared
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin is another neoclassicist who used young adolescent models.
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Prince Henry Lubomirski was called the most beautiful boy in Europe. I’ve already reproduced two portraits by two different female artists, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and Angelica Kauffman. Another artist to depict his legendary beauty was Italian sculptor Antonio Canova…. I wonder what
I stumbled across Angelica Kauffman whilst researching Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Kauffman just happened to have also done a portrait of Prince Henry Lubomirski (as Eros).
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She was born in 1741 in Switzerland and showed an early brilliance. She learned several languages (Italian, German,
Unfortunately female painters are rare. Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun… is widely regarded as the most famous female artist of the 18th century. Her style is Rococo. The paintings I have chosen are relevant because they address the issue of sexualisation. The first is called
Louis-Jean- François Lagrenèe… was an early neo-classicist (his younger brother Jean-Jacques was also a painter). I’ve included these paintings because of the apparent youth of the subjects. In the past I have not included subjects who I think could be in their mid to late
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