King Louis XVI of France. Absolute Monarch. People opposed distributed pamphlets that criticized government.
Stereoscope. Reaches high fashion around 1860 in London. For a brief History, link
here.
Stereoscope card.
Company of ladies watching stereoscopic photographs. 1850's - 1860's
Images of war sold for profit.
Spotted Bear, 1880
Gerard, Cupid and Psyche, oil on canvas, 73 x 52 inches, exhibited at the 1798 Salon. To learn more about this painting, link
here to the Louvre museum collection.
An interesting blog link
here.
Biard, Four O'Clock at the Salon, 1847.
Link
here. Daumier, Free Day At The Salon, 1842.
Honore Daumier, artist and political cartoonist 19th century France. Pioneer of realism, painting ordinary or lower class people. His caricatures of French royalty and upper class got him sent to jail a couple of times.
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| Lithograph by Honore' Daumier (1808-1879). Works by Daumier offer commentary on social and political life in France during the 19th century. |
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| Honore Daumier |
Jean Bernard Duseigneurs, Roland Furieux, shown at the Salon in 1831.
Eugene Delacroix, Massacre at Chios, shown at Salon 1824.
Carte de visite, Soujourner Truth, 1864, unknown photographer and publisher. Link
here.
Two examples of carte de visite photographs taken during the American Civil War.
Eugen Sandow
Gustave Courbet, Wrestlers, 1853. Link
here for a short video.
Jean Beraud, Morris Column, 1879-1880, painting.
"Please remember that when you get inside the gates you are part of the show" -From pamphlet, A Short Sermon to Sightseers.
