Louis XV & Madame de Pompadour

Which one dictated the Rococo style?

The Analysis of Beauty, William Hogarth, 1753

•the line of beauty—3D curve; S shape twisted slightly•cabriole leg—taken from the bodily form of a woman

ChaiseRococo

(1720s-60s)

cabriole leg

women & natural forms—major themes in tapestry, upholstery,

ornamentations

Console Table, Louis XV / Rococo Furniture, (1720s-60s)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

•writes that civilization has become overly refined—resulting in more immoral and vicious people; city conditions

•nobles back in Paris—living amongst the poor

THE PROGRESS OF LOVE

four panels painted in 1771–73 for Madame Du Barry, remaining panels in

1790–91. Oil on canvas

FragonardThe Pursuit; The Meeting; Love Letters;

The Lover Crowned

THE SWING

Late 18th century

Oil on canvas

Fragonard

French Rococo design details:

•mirrors above mantles•boiserie on walls•cabriole leg—dead give away for Rococo•much more delicate, curvacious—distinctly feminine

Clock Room in The Palace at Versailles

Boiserie—gilded wood

ribbons become popular

Hotels Crozat and D’Evreux

•Corps de Logis—perceived front of the home•requires a re-orientation due the irregularity of the site•facades built by Mansart for Louis XIV as public buildings—library, banks, etc…•Lousi XIV dies, nobles need a place to live

Salon Ovale

Hotel de Soubise, Paris, by architect Germain Boffrand, interiors by Charles Natoire, c. 1720s-30

Fauteuil

•scale is smaller—for comfort•wherever body touches chair—padded •gilded (distinctly French)•cabriole leg•textile—naturalistic pattern (large roses); tone on tone; silk

manchettesmanchettes

Bergere•closed armchair•very upholstered•unbroken curved line

Canape

Bureau Plat

Coleshill(country home)

Berkshire, England, architect Sir Roger Pratt,

1650sDouble Pile House

• two rooms deep• central corridor meant for servants—enfilade public• hall—most ornamented and expensive room in the space• parlor, antechamber & chamber sequence nonexistent in

England

Hall at Coleshill(country home)

Georgian interior characteristicsmodeled figuresclassical ordersdelicate motifs

asymmetryundulating linenatural forms

exterior details

Queen Anne Chair, c.1700-30, walnut

•walnut made it difficult to carve details

•sometimes called the parrot chair

•cupid’s bow

•English generally leave back legs square—Marlboro leg

Queen Anne Highboy

c. 1700-30, walnut

Modern Chairs or In the French Style, 1754

Thomas Chippendale, London

various chairs/Pie Crust Side Tableattributed to Thomas Chippendale,

London

plaster Chinoiserie design details

Claydon House

Luke Lightfoot

1750s

Chippendale bed became popular

showed wealth, education, and that you were well

traveled

Chiswick, near London, (Neo-Palladian villa) by Lord Burlington,

1720s

picturesque interiors—color scheme changes dramatically

Strawberry Hill

Gothic Revival Villa, Twickenham, England, by Horace Walpole, et. al.,

1750-70s

picturesque planningrooms are all different shapes and

circulation is unclear

The Great Cloister; Strawberry Hill

Gothic Revival Villa, Twickenham, England, by Horace Walpole, et. al.,

1750-70s

Georgian coloration—color on white; Rococo tone on tone pattern

on wall; Gothic Revival detailing