Fieldston School_________________________________________________________________
The Birth of Modern Europe
Timeline: The Arts and a Century of Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Delacroix, Gericault, Daumier and Corot
1780 Boulee, Cenotaph to Newton
1786 David, Oath of the Horatii
1787 David, Death of Socrates
1789 French Revolution
David, Death of Marat
1800 Napoleon
1804 David, Consecration of Napoleon and Coronation of Josephine
Gros, Napoleon at Pesthouse
1814-24 Louis XVIII (Louis XVI brother) “Bourbon Restoration”
1818 Gericault, Raft of the Medusa
1824-30 Charles X (other brother of Louis XVI)
1830 July Revolution (barricades, Les Mis)
Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
1830-1848 Louis Philippe (“citizen king”) creates “constitutional monarchy”
“July Monarchy”
1831 Daumier, François-Pierre-Guillaume Guizot
1834 Delacroix, Women of Algiers
Daumier, Rue Transnomian
liberalism, industrialization and class
police repression, 1834 (Louis Philippe “citizen king”-1830s)
revolt (1848- Second republic/ Marx)
technique; lithography
1848 February Revolution- Second Republic (with Louis Napoleon as Pres.)
Daumier, Revolution of 1848 (painted in 1860?)
1851 Louis Napoleon’s coup
1852 Napoleon III (1852-70)
1857 Daumier, French Theater (painting and drawing)
parvenu, nouveau riche, ouvrier (proletariat)
class
1862 Daumier, Third Class Carriage
realism and politics; “social realism”
1863 Daumier, Laundress on the Quai d’Anjou
1870 Franco-Prussian War: Napoleon III imprisoned, Third Republic declared
Daumier, Lawyer Reading
gesture, light, brushstrokes
Romanticism and Nature
Romantic cult of nature:
transcendence
pantheism
realism and observation
Camille Corot (1796-1875)
Poussin and Claude Lorraine
Landscape
immediacy and truth of the moment vs. pastoral idealization
technique: emotion and spirit
“Barbizon School”
Theodore Rousseau (1812-1867)
Northern Baroque (Brueghel, Ruisdael)
Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)
1848- Liberal Revolutions
Gleaners, 1843
Sower, 1850
