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Elegant Figures Visiting a Country Dairy
Johannes Zacharias Simon Prey
(1744-1823)
Oil on panel
Signed, lower left
19 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches
24 1/4 x 31 1/4 inches, framed
18th Century
The Age of Enlightenment was a powerful intellectual movement that affected artists during the 18th century. 18th century French art was dominated by the Rococo and neoclassical movements. Painting turned toward "fêtes galantes", theater settings and the female nude. Although the hierarchy of genres continued to be respected officially, genre painting, landscape, portrait and still life were extremely fashionable.
Paintings of domestic scenes revealed the importance of Sentimentalism in the European arts of the period. One also finds in this period a kind of Pre-romanticism. Images of ruins, inspired by Italian cappricio paintings, are typical in this respect.
The middle of the 18th century saw a turn to Neoclassicism in France, that is to say a conscious use of Greek and Roman forms and iconography. In painting, the greatest representative of this style is Jacques Louis David who, mirroring the profiles of Greek vases, emphasized the use of the profile, with his subject matter often involving classical history.
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