Rococo Art Timeline

  • Jean-Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717)

    Jean-Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717)

    The painting combines a lush, Renaissance-style landscape with an allegorical scene, in which a group of couples either return from or set out for, scholars differ in their interpretations.
  • Mezetin

    Mezetin

    Mezentin painted this to show a psychology of love.
  • Mezetin

    Mezetin

    Mezentin painted this to show a psychology of love.
  • The Entrance to the Grand Canal

    The Entrance to the Grand Canal

    Canaletto, the artist, used this to show a landscape depicting the entrance to the Grand Canal in Venice.
  • Soap Bubbles

    Soap Bubbles

    The artwork by Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin shows two children playing. An older boy, leaning forward, blows through a straw, expanding a soap bubble. while the little boy looks up to him.
  • Triumph of Venus

    Triumph of Venus

    It inspired The Birth of Venus by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
  • The Bath of Diana

    The Bath of Diana

    Boucher is known for a nude female.
  • Reclining Girl

    Reclining Girl

    Marie-Louise O'Murphy's painting shows a nude girl lying down, relaxing.
  • The Toilet of Venus

    The Toilet of Venus

    This unique painting by François Boucher shows a mother's love for her children.
  • swing

    swing

    Jean-Honore Fragonard's renowned painting showcases aristocrats enjoying leisure time and engaging in flirtation.
  • The Stolen Kiss

    The Stolen Kiss

    Fragonard uses this painting to show that in slightly more than two decades, aristocrats would be worrying about their heads, not stolen kisses.
  • The Meeting

    The Meeting

    Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet uses this romantic swan that jumps over a wall while his lover seems surprised.
  • Hubert Robert

    Hubert Robert

    Hubert Roberts specialized in portraits, painting both fellow painters and aristocrats.
  • Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

    Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

    Vigée Le Brun was one of the members of the French Academy for painters.
  • Varvara Ivanovna Ladomirsky

    Varvara Ivanovna Ladomirsky

    Varvara Ivanovna Ladomirsky is known to have fled to Russia, where she then did paintings of Russian aristocrats.