NUDE ART (PART 2)

Innocence by the French Romantic painter Paul (Hippolyte) Delaroche (1797-1856).

Delaroche depicts here a "child of nature" in the spirit of Rousseau.

Another fantastic harem scene by the Austrian painter Hans Zatzka (1859-1945). Aodalisque is preparing her bath.
The Delphic Oracle (1899) by the british painter John William Godward (1861–1922).

A nice picture, which could be sold today as "Fantasy-Art". But I doubt that the Delphic Oracle could have been a young chick like this.
Le Manteau Legendaire (1907) by the French Symbolist painter Léon-François Comerre (1850-1916).

Comerre depicts a a young nude woman clutching the cloak of her lover while she is waiting for his return

The awakening of Venus (1741) by the French Rococo painter Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777).

I think it's evident how big the influence of Rococo on modern nude painting was. Many underestimate this great epoch in painting.
Lesbia (1878) by the British painter John Reinhard Weguelin (1849-1927).

Weguelin was a typical Victorian artist and used mostly this popular neo-classical style.
Albayde (1848) by the French painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889).

It's a nearly perfect drawn picture. The name is taken from Orientalist poem and refers to an odalisque. Cabanel shows this lethargic and content figure as an object of visual pleasure.
She is lazy, seductive but also dangerous, she's a real femme fatale.
Chloé (1875) by the French painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911).

The painting won in Paris two gold medals and was later exhibited in Australia, where its nudity caused some severe scandals. Later it was purchased by an ex-digger for the then enormous sum of £800.
One more of the sweet girls by the French painter Guillaume Seignac (1870-1924).

Innocence

It's easy to say that Seignac is pure kitsch. But I find him very interesting. At first he's a real academic painter of the late 19th century who has his roots deep in the Rococo.
Second, you can discover in this painting signs of Art Deco and of Pin-Up art.
Eva (1889) by the Polish painter Pantaleon Szyndler (1846-1905).

I can't avoid the thoughts that this naive childish model hasn't much to do with the great seductress, the very first in history.
For me the whole thing is a lame excuse to sell a political correct nude painting.
Salammbô (1910)

The French painter Gaston Bussière (1862-1929) is citing here the protagonist of the very popular historical novel by Gustave Flaubert.
Cleopatra by the French neoclassical painter Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754-1825).

Regnault painted here a historical subject. But this effort emphasizes only how much he stayed in his time. Cleopatra looks a lot like these women of the Napoleonic era. So was more an excuse to paint a woman in such a lascivious pose. She's more the Vamp of a contemporary salon than a historical person.
Susanna bathing (1839) by the French painter Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856).

Chassériau treats this old biblical subject in a more exotic and orientalistic manner. That was the new romantic view.
Sleeping Nymph (1870)

The German painter Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880) is still in the tradition of Neoclassicism but already there can be noticed a kind of rising Symbolism.

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