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Even in the art world of 19th-century France, there were traditionalists.
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In The Death of General Wolfe, Benjamin West creates an almost legendary...
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Cupid and Psyche, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1817; in the Cleveland...
The Cleveland Museum of Art; Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1962.37; www.clevelandart.org
Oath of the Horatii, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1784; in the...
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York
The Death of Marat, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1793; in the Royal...
World History Archive/age fotostock
Portrait of Madame Récamier, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1800;...
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York
The Education of Achilles, oil on canvas by James Barry, c. 1772;...
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1978.6
The Toilette of a Bride in Ancient Dress, oil on canvas by Joseph-Marie...
In a private collection
Psyche Asleep, oil on canvas by Anne-Louis Girodet, 1799; in a private collection.
In a private collection
Goethe in the Roman Campagna, oil on canvas by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein,...
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Susannah and the Elders, oil on canvas by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1751;...
In a private collection
The Wounded Philoctetes, oil on canvas by Nicolai Abildgaard, 1775; in the...
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark); www.smk.dk (Public domain)
Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix, marble sculpture by Antonio...
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Christ, marble statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1821; in the Church of Our...
Courtesy of the Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen
The Fury of Athamas, marble sculpture by John Flaxman, 1790–94; in the collection...
A.F. Kersting
Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 (La Marseillaise), stone sculpture...
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York
Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix, marble sculpture by Antonio...
Alinari—Art Resource/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
President Andrew Jackson, plaster bust by Hiram Powers, modeled 1835; in...
Photograph by pohick2. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Museum purchase in memory of Ralph Cross Johnson, 1968.155.58
Whitney used art to advance the causes of women's rights and abolition. Her statue...
Daderot
Figure 43: American neoclassical room in the manner of the Adam brothers: Oval Music...
Courtesy of Antiques Magazine, photograph, Helga Studio
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