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| This oil painting known as The Swing was created by the French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard sometime during 1767 and 1768. |
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Self-Portrait, E.V. LeBrun
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| This self-portrait was painted in Rome; one of the first cities in which Vigée-LeBrun stayed during her decade-long exile from France. |
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Marriage a la Mode, Hogarth
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| Marriage A-la-Mode is a series of six pictures painted by William Hogarth between 1743 and 1745, intended as a pointed skewering of 18th-century society. They show the disastrous results of an ill-considered marriage for money or social status, and satirize patronage and aesthetics. |
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A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery, Wright
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| Showcase the scientific advancements of the Enlightenment, such as the orrery that is central in this painting. Also meant to illustrate the general feeling of curiosity and thirst for rational knowledge of the Enlightenment. |
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Monticello, Jefferson
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| View of the West Front of Monticello and Garden |
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Oath of Horatii, Death of Marat, Napoleon, David
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| Oath of the Horatii, is a large painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and now on display in the Louvre in Paris. The painting immediately became a huge success with critics and the public and remains one of the best-known paintings in the Neoclassical style. |
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George Washington, Houdon
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| The statue, still on view in the Rotunda of the Virginia State Capitol, is a near perfect representation of the first president of the United States of America. |
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