Showing posts with label Girodet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Girodet. Show all posts

Friday, May 10, 2013

Coming to Live


Pygmalion by the French neoclassical painter Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824). It's really, really cheesy, the rosy cheeks, the divine light and not at last the little cherub.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Toilette of Venus

The oldest or "classical" form to paint a womens toilette, was that of Venus. Here by the French neoclassical painter Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824).

Mademoiselle Lange as Venus (1798)