The Age of Absolutism: Louis XIV King of France:

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2 The Age of Absolutism: Louis XIV King of France: He became king at age five and saw himself as a reincarnation of Apollo, and assumed the title of Sun- King and proclaimed: I am the state

3 Lineage of the Sun-King

4 Diego Velazquez. Infanta Marie Theresa of Spain,

5 Palace of Versailles: Louis XVI built this palace (1669- to trump all competition. It was the grandest in the world until the erection by Catherine the Great of the Hermitage in Russia a century later.

6 Francois GIRARDON (French: ) and Thomas REGNAUDIN (French: ), Apollo Attended by the Nymphs of Thetis, Marble, over life-size, tableau vivant. Grotto of Thetis, park of Versailles, France, (in situ).

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8 Louis XV: This is a portrait of Louis XV when he was 13 years old and king of France. He succeeded Louis XIV in the year 1715, when he was 5 years old. The painting is by Alexis Simon Belle. It hangs in the Palace of Versailles near Paris, France.

9 Queen Maria Leszczinska of Poland Louis XV

10 Boucher, Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of Louis XV, arbiter of royal taste and host of the most famous salon in Paris.

11 Louis-Michel van Loo: Portrait of Denis Diderot, 1767, Louvre, Paris. Frontispiece from the Encyclopedie and a page illustrating tailoring. Diderot was the editor of this major work,

12 They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. Samuel Johnson (English: )

13 The New art of the Rococo: Watteau: Gersaint's Shopsign, 1721.

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16 Antoine WATTEAU (French: ), Pilgrimage to Cythera, Oil on canvas, 51" x 76". Musée du Louvre, Paris. A special category at the Salons was created to accommodate Watteau s paintings: the Fête galante, which focused on the leisured life of the rich and famous and the theater they enjoyed.

17 Rococo Painting and Sculpture Francois BOUCHER (French: ), Companions of Diana, Oil on canvas, 46" X 36". California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco Claude Michel, called CLODION (French: ), Nymph and Satyr, Terracotta, 23 in. high, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

18 Francois Boucher, Nude on a Sofa (Reclining Girl), Pinakothek, Munich. The name of the woman, who is said to have been a concubine of king Louis XV, was Miss O Murphy.

19 Aristocracy in Decadence: Rococo Art and the End of the Ancien Regime Fragonard: The Swing, 1766.

20 Fragonard, The Bolt, 1784.

21 Rococo Architecture: Germain BOFFRAND (French: ), Salon de la Princess, Hotel Soubise,

22 King Louis XVI:

23 Élizabeth Louis Vigée-Lebrun, Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of Austria, Oil on canvas. Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France. She was called the "Austrian Whore" and "Madame Deficit."

24 Élizabeth Louise VIGÉE-LEBRUN (French: ), Marie Antoinette and Her Children, Oil on canvas, 108 ½" X 84 ⅝". Musée National du Château de Versailles, France. Late Rococo.

25 Vigée Lebrun, Self Portraits, 1782 (Rococo) & 1789 (Neo-Classical)

26 Vigee-Lebrun Born in Paris, this court painter acquired fame in her homeland as well as throughout Europe. Vigee-LeBrun was mostly a self taught artist, but she received some artistic training from her father prior to his death and she was given advice by Greuze and Vernet. Vigee-LeBrun traveled extensively and became a major player in 18th century high society despite her middle class upbringing. A professional portrait painter by the age of 15 years old, Vigee-LeBrun made considerable amounts of money and achieved economic independence for her family. A prolific artist, her work came to the attention of Marie Antoinette and in 1778 Vigee-LeBrun became court painter for the Queen. She became a member of the Royal Academy in 1783 but was forced to flee France in 1789 because of the Revolution and her close ties with the Queen. During her twelve years in exile, Vigee-Lebrun traveled to Italy, Vienna, Prague and Dresden. She was permitted re-entry into France in 1802, after 255 of her artist colleagues petitioned for her return. She traveled to St. Petersburg and London before returning to Paris in 1805 where she remained for the rest of her life. She continued to paint and was made an honorary member of the Societe pour l'advancement des Beaux-arts in Geneva. In the 1830's she published her memoirs which give insight to her travels and her artistic career.

27 Augustin Pajou, Elizabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun, Terracotta, life-size, Louvre, Paris.

28 Image 201: Élizabeth Louise VIGÉE-LEBRUN (French: ), Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, Marchioness Wellesley, Oil on canvas, 29 X 39 ½ inches. The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Late Rococo.

29 Image 202: Adélaïde LABILLE-GUIARD (French, ), Self-portrait with Two Pupils: Mademoiselle Marie Gabrielle Capet ( ) and Mademoiselle Carreaux de Rosemond (died 1788), Oil on canvas, 83 x 59½". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

30 Adélaïde LABILLE-GUIARD, Portrait of Augustin Pajou, Louvre, Paris

31 Jean-Baptist Simeon CHARDIN (French: ), La Fontaine, before Oil on canvas, 15" x 16½". National Museum, Stockholm.

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33 William HOGARTH (English: ), Breakfast Scene, from Marriage à la Mode, c Oil on canvas, 28" x 36". National Gallery, London.

34 Hotel de Soubise, Paris,

35 Germain BOFFRAND (French: ), Salon de la Princes, Hotel de Soubise, Paris, The painter was Charles-Joseph Natoir (French) and the sculptor was J. B. Lemoine (French).

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37 Giovanni Battista TIEPOLO (Italian: ), The Marriage of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Beatrice of Burgundy, , in the Kaisersaal (Imperial Hall), Residenz, Wurzburg, , by architect Balthasar Neumann (German).

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40 Balthasar NEUMANN (German: ), Viersehnheiligen, near Staffelstein, Germany,

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42 Coronation Coach of Catherine II the Great of Russia, 1762.

43 Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II Empress Catherine II the Great of Russia

44 King George III (known as the king who lost America), was born in King George III's father, the Prince of Wales died when he was young. When George III was 22, in 1760, his grandfather, George II, died. On September 8th, 1761 he married Princess Charlotte Sophia from Mecklenburg-Strelitz, in Germany and on September 22nd, 1761, George III became the King of England. George himself was of partial German ancestry. George and Charlotte had 15 children, one of whom, George IV would be the next king. King George III sat upon the throne of England from He was proclaimed insane in 1810 and died in George3rd.htm

45 King Louis XVI: