Showing posts with label Delaroche. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Delaroche. Show all posts

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Neoclassical Nude

Girl on a fountain (1845) by the French painter Paul Delaroche (1797-1856). The whole arrangement and the artificial pose of the girl is part of a neoclassical composition, which was typical for the time.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Romantic Innocence

Innocence by the French Romantic painter Paul (Hippolyte) Delaroche (1797-1856).

Delaroche depicts here a "child of nature" in the spirit of Rousseau.