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Maker(s):Benard, Jean-Baptiste (attributed to)
Culture:French (active 1751-1789)
Title:River Landscape with Figures and Beasts
Date Made:ca. 1750s
Type:Painting
Materials:Oil on canvas
Place Made:Europe; France
Measurements:Frame: 33 1/2 in x 40 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 85.1 cm x 103.5 cm x 5.7 cm; Stretcher: 28 3/4 in x 36 1/8 in; 73 cm x 91.8 cm
Accession Number:  MH 2015.19
Credit Line:Gift of Renee Scialom Cary (Class of 1948)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Label Text:
French artist Jean-Baptiste Benard has been called a “little unfamiliar master.” Though next to nothing is known of his life, a handful of extant paintings reveal that he was adept with the fêtes galantes, a category of painting combining landscape and figures in bucolic scenes of romance and leisure. While the overt eroticism typical of the genre is absent here, the lush foliage and docile animals underscore the fecundity of a youthful, blushing couple—already with one cherubic child—in the lower right. Beloved by the court of King Louis XV and especially his famous mistress, Madame du Pompadour, intimate, pleasing pictures like this one represented a departure from the Baroque style and the dominant role of religion in the arts.

-Hannah Blunt, Associate Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Sept. 2016)

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