Word: jouvenet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shower of Gold. The French court artists of the late 17th century, like Jean Jouvenet and Charles De La Fosse, all worked under Rubens' shadow. So did François Boucher in the late 18th century, and a further succession of painters, culminating in the 19th with Eugene Delacroix. "What a magician! I get out of sorts with him at times. I quarrel with him because of his heavy forms, his lack of science and elegance. But how far he is above all those little qualities which make up the whole baggage of others ..." And the view Delacroix expressed...
...Brown, it is the first systematic effort to show Rubens' posthumous influence on Europe theme by theme. It is hard to see how so much territory could be better indicated on a small exhibition budget. Apart from the (necessarily small) paintings by Rubens himself, there are works by Jouvenet, De La Fosse, Boucher, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gericault and Delacroix, and as fine a group of Watteau crayon drawings as one could hope to see in any room...
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