1772

Showing 2 artworks from 1772

Genre painting · Rococo

The Meeting

Jean Honore Fragonard

1772 · The Frick Collection, New York City

He is coming over the garden wall and she has just seen him, with a statue of Venus watching from above. Painted for Madame du Barry.

★ 6.1

Genre painting · Romanticism

The Shipwreck

Claude Joseph Vernet

1772 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia

Masts splintering, survivors in the surf, and the whole thing arranged for people who wanted to feel terror from a safe distance.

★ 5.7