Pl. I ROSLIN, ALEXANDER · Born in Malmö in 1718, died in Paris in 1793. After an apprenticeship in Stockholm, he worked for some time at the court of the Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg-Kulmbach. In Italy from 1747 to 1752. In 1752 he settled in Paris, where he became a member of the Académie Royale. Was summoned to St Petersburg by Catherine II in 1775, returned via Warsaw and Vienna to Paris in 1979. The charm of this famous Swedish artist is that he imbuesthe international style of French portraiture with many attractive nuances. His brilliant treatment of materials aroused the of his contemporaries. See Pl. 38.
LADY WITH VEIL (THE ARTIST'S WIFE) · Oil on canvas 65 × 54 cm. Signed Roslin f 1788. Half-length. The sitter, Marie Suzanne Giroust ( Paris 1734-1772) was an artist, and married Roslin in 1759. In an 18th-century journal the subject of the portrait is described as "coiffée à la Balonaise". It formerly belonged to J. V. Peill who was one of the sitter's friends. Later in the collections of Grill, Osterby and Tamm.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum
Pl. I DIDEROT, DENIS ( 1713-1784) and D'ALEMBERT, JEAN LEROND ( 1717-1783)
ENCYCLOPÉDIE OU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNÉ DES SCIENCES, DES ARTS ET DES MÉTIERS · Vol. 1-35. Paris: Briasson and others, 1751-1780. Folio. II volumes with engraved illustrations. The engraved frontispiece of the last volume of the Encyclopédie, after a drawing by C. N. Cochin, is an allegorical representa- tion of the Sciences and the Arts grouped round the radiant veiled figure of Truth. Reason, wearing a crown, stands nearest Truth and is in the act of unveiling her. About 180 experts in all fields of learning collaborated under Diderot and d'Alembert's direction to produce this masterpiece, an intellectual balance- sheet of the early phase of the Age of Enlightenment. Its scope was extended by the inclusion of arts and crafts as disciplines of equal standing. AS a proclamation of the current belief in reason and progress, it became an effective weapon in the struggle against established institutions of society, the authority of Church and. State, thus paving the way for the French Revolution. See Pl. 9, 24, 47. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Pl. 2 HUME, DAVID ( 1711-1776)
A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE. London 1739-1740. 8vo. In this, his chief work, the Scots philosopher investigates the reason, the passions and the will and develops Locke's philosophy to- wards phenomenalism and scepticism.
Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- u. Universitätsbibliothek
Pl. 3 VOLTAIRE, FRANÇOIS-MARIE AROUBT DE · Born in Paris in 1694, died there in 1778. He was educated from 1704 to 1710 in the Jesuit School of Louis-le-Grand. From 1717 to 1718 he was imprisoned in the Bastille for writing a partic- ularly pungent satire on the Regent. He spent the years from 1726 to 1728 in England and on his return he was for a time patronised by Louis XV. In 1750 he went to Berlin at the in- vitation of Frederick the Great. In 1752, no longer in the king's favour, he moved to Ferney in Switzerland, whence he continued his campaign for tolerance and humanitarianism. In the uni- versality of his mind and achievements he is symbolic of the spirit of the European Age of Enlightenment. See Pl. 10. DICTIONNAIRE PHILOSOPHIQUE PORTATIF OU INTRODUCTION À LA CONNAISSANCE DR L'HOMME · 2nd ed. Lyon: Bruyset 1756. 8vo. In this widely read book Voltaire developed Bayle's line of thought and examined English philosophy.
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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Publication Information: Book Title: The Rococo Age: Art and Civilization of the 18th Century. Contributors: Arno Schönberger - author, Halldor Soehner - author. Publisher: McGraw-Hill. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1960. Page Number: 341.
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