Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Art Institute of Chicago part 3

Madame de Pastoret and Her Son by David over looking Antonio Canova's Bust of Paris, 1809


A few years ago I was on a cross country drive from Baltimore to San Diego and stopped in Chicago for a few days along the way.The Art Institute of Chicago is a world famous museum and one of the top ten major museums in America. I had one hour to run thru this world famous museum. I ended up missing the American collection of art but I did see the European collection.




Today we are exploring European painting and sculpture & decorative arts. The museums collection is considered one of the finest in the world. The collection of European painting contains more than 3,500 works dating from the 12th through the mid-20th century. Holdings include a rare group of 15th-century Spanish, Italian and Northern European paintings, highlights of European sculpture, and an important selection of 17th- and 18th-century paintings. Major Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works and classic Modern works are among its most significant holdings.







Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Italian, 1708-1787
Don José Moñino y Redondo, Conde de Floridablanca, c. 1776




Gainsborough, Thomas
British, 1727-1788
Mrs. Philip Dupont, c. 1778


Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Spanish, 1746–1828
Boy on a Ram, 1786/87


Antonio d'Este
Italian, 1754-1837
After a model by Antonio Canova
Italian, 1757-1822
Deposition, after 1800




Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria
French, 1758–1832
Portrait of Constance Pipelet, 1797




Manufacturer: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Designer: Charles Percier, 1764-1838
Painter: Gilbert Drouet, fl. late 18th-early 19th century
France, Sèvres
Londonderry Vase, 1813






Manufacturer: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Designer: Charles Percier, 1764-1838
Painter: Gilbert Drouet, fl. late 18th-early 19th century
France, Sèvres
Londonderry Vase, 1813












Jean Baptiste Joseph Wicar
French, 1762-1834
Virgil Reading the "Aeneid" to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia, 1790/93



Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Italian, 1708-1787
Peace and War, 1776





Jean-Antoine Houdon
French, 1741-1828
Bust of Anne-Marie-Louise Thomas de Domangeville de Sérilly, Comtesse de Pange, 1780






Antonio Canova
Italian, 1757-1822
Head of Medusa, c. 1801


Baron Antoine Jean Gros
French, 1771-1835
Portrait of the Maistre Sisters, 1796


Antonio Canova
Italian, 1757-1822
Bust of Paris, 1809




Antonio Canova
Italian, 1757-1822
Bust of Paris, 1809


Antonio Canova
Italian, 1757-1822
Bust of Paris, 1809



Jacques Louis David
French, 1748–1825
Madame de Pastoret and Her Son, mid-1791/mid-1792





Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French, 1780-1867
Amédée-David, the Comte de Pastoret, 1823-26






John Philip Simpson
English, 1782–1847
The Captive Slave, 1827







Albert Schindler
Austrian, 1805-1861
Portrait of a Gardener and Horn Player in the Household of the Emperor Francis I, 1836


Johann Gottfried Schadow
German, 1764-1850
Foundry: Werner in Berlin, 1794/95-1842
Bust of Queen Luise of Prussia, modeled 1799, cast 1819/21


Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
Austrian, 1793-1865
The Actor Maximilian Korn in a Landscape, 1828



Louis-Léopold Boilly
French, 1761-1845
The Movings, 1822





Louis-Léopold Boilly
French, 1761-1845
The Movings, 1822




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