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The taste for rococo -- intimate and charming subjects painted in pastel colors -- gave way by mid-century to the simpler, more restrained forms of neoclassical art. In Italy, travelers on the Grand Tour patronized painters of ancient and modern landmarks for souvenirs, while in France a sober and restrained look, like that of Roman reliefs, would serve the Revolution. (continue)
18th-Century France: Boucher and Fragonard 18th-Century France: Chardin and Portraiture 18th-Century France: The Rococo and Watteau 18th- and 19th-Century France: Neoclassicism
Claude Joseph Vernet: The Shipwreck
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