Fathers as nurturers during the Napoleonic era

Portrait of Monsieur Gaudry giving his daughter a geography lesson, 1812, Louis-Léopold Boilly

The Gaudry portrait is even more a portrayal of “the good father” than a lesson in political geography. The painting provides evidence of a reorientation of the father’s role within the family that had taken place from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. In her study of archetypal family structures during the Revolutionary period, Lynn Hunt traces “the rise and fall of the good father” and his eventual replacement, as an ambivalent figure, by republican fathers “who were now officially depicted as friendly, supportive, and interested in their children.” While the gradual transformation of the king into a good father began before the Revolution (as manifested in the portrait of Louis XVI, and not a tutor, instructing his son in geography), it was not until the Napoleonic period that a positive image of paternalism was explicitly rehabilitated, as Boilly’s commission for a portrait of the yet-childless Napoleon as père de famille so clearly indicates. In the meanwhile, children assumed new importance as the affective center of gravity in representations of families, a shift that is indicated by the painting’s focus on the demure Mlle Gaudry. Rather than reading the Gaudry portrait in twentieth-century terms, as an expression of “unusual sensitivity and psychological insight,” Boilly’s portrayal of an affectionate and respectful relationship between father and daughter is better understood as conforming to a new social construction of the family that came to the fore during the Napoleonic period, in which fathers assumed new roles as nurturers or guides.

Source: The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France, Susan Siegfried, pp, 115

10, 13, and 26 for history asks :D

10. Pieces of art ( paintings, sculpures, lithographies, ect.) related to history you like most ( post an image of them)

Self-Portrait of Boilly as a sans-culotte:

13. Something random about some random historical person in a random era.

This will be more about the present but hear me out. Nikola Tesla was cremated and his ashes rest in a spherical urn in the Nikola Tesla museum, Belgrade (Serbia). There is a HUGE controversy in Serbia over this, because it's seen as an inappropriate burial for such a huge figure of national pride. But the museum doesn't want to give the urn to the church, so there are periodical protests/fights/controversies over it, particularly near the elections, when there is a need to score political points over Tesla's remains. 26. Forgotten hero we should know about and admire?

Already answered with Michel Lepeletier, so now maybe Félix Lepeletier. Not as heroic, but I love a reformed himbo.

Deux jeunes femmes s’embrassant, Louis-Leopold Boilly, 1790-94

Self-portrait of Louis-Leopold Boilly with Simon Chenard, singer and comedian. Study for the meeting of artists at Isabey's studio.

Louis Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) – Les Amateurs d’Estampes (The Print Enthusiasts)

Autoportrait and Autoportrait as a sans-culottes, Louis Léopold Boilly.

"Comparing Little Feet" by the circle of Louis-Léopold Boilly, circa 1780.

Au Louvre-Lens, il y avait une expo fort intéressante : “Champollion - La Voie des Hiéroglyphes”, sur l’homme, son époque, l’image de l’Egypte en Europe avant l’Egyptologie....

- gravure de Caroline Hulot d'après Louis-Léopold Boilly - “Le Libéral" et "L'Ultra”

- Charles-Philippe Larivière - "Portrait d'Ibrahim Pacha”

 - Auguste Couder - "Méhémet Ali, Pacha d'Egypte”

- Charles de Steuben - “Portrait de François Arago”

- statue en tailleur du Chef du Trésor Iay - Moyen Empire 1900 av. J-C.

- autel de Philae, inscriptions romaines - 205 av. J-C.

BOILLY, Louis-Léopold (1761-1845). Le soupé interrompu (vers 1791). Huile sur toile. Provenance: Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena.

*Le vieillard Jaloux pour la seconde oeuvre du pendant.

Two Young Women Kissing (1790s) by Louis-Léopold Boilly.

'The Dream of Tartini' (Devil's Trill Sonata) by Louis Leopold Boilly, 1824

A Nagasaki black lacquer on metal and aogai inlaid lidded box. Around 1805

Portrait of Napoleon after Louis Leopold Boilly, showing the young Napoleon as the first consul of the French Republic in 1802.

(Lempertz)

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So many women choosing women.

Why is it so hard to understand? a woman wants so many women.

women. women.

The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre, Louis Leopold Boilly, 1810

Portraits of Antoine-Jean Gros (details) by Jules Boilly, son of Léopold-Louis Boilly.

I took pics of many cats and dogs in the Boilly exhibition at the Cognac-Jay museum.