Portrait of King Charles IX of FranceFrancois Clouet
Portrait of Elizabeth of Austria, Wife of King Charles IX of France, by a Follower of François ClouetPortrait of Elizabeth of AustriaEmily B. Collins
27 Campbell also discusses a chalk drawing by Germain Le Mannier, Charles IX, King of France, aged two. This image is also quite small (33.5χ 23.4 centimeters) and there are creases in the paper indicating that it had been folded. Scholars link the drawing (along with two other Le Man...
The complexity of the piece, though, is whether Venus gains power through this role, as the stories of Judith (the Jewish heroine) and of Venus herself, among others, tells us, or are these women simply passive objects upon which we gaze, stripped of their power by the male artist who ...
France, thereby effectively linking the issues of slavery and the condition of women.5 Of course, all hopes for black and female emancipation were dashed with the reinstitution of slavery in 1802 and with the appearance of the Code Napoléon in 1804, the latter of which imposed harsh social ...
Realism was not consciously adopted as anaestheticprogram until the mid-19th century in France, however. Indeed, realism may be viewed as a major trend in French novels and paintings between 1850 and 1880. One of the first appearances of the termrealismwas in theMercure français du XIXesiècl...