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*Embarkation for Cytherea by Watteau; canvas; 129x191cm(51x75in); 1717[ce]. Schloss Charlottenburg, west Berlin.

[also known as Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cytherea. Not to be confused with the earlier version, similarly titled, in the Louvre, Paris. Both paintings in fact appear to depict a departure from the Isle of Cytherea, the birthplace of Venus.]

– ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 719

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‘The Rococo was a reaction against the pomposity of the Grand Siècle,* just as, in France at least, Neoclassicism was partly a reaction against the frivolity of the Rococo.’

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*[Italicisation per source text]

** – ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 719

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*[Footnote above:]

XIV at Versailles’

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**[– Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:718]

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*[p339 in the ms consists of a single illustration which is reproduced at p344 in the ts]

**[Marginal note above:]

[See returning curve above]

***[– Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:718]

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{64J~|u~1640||G~m~1648[ce]}

**[– Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:715-716]

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*Young Woman with a Water Jug by Vermeer; oil on canvas; 46x42cm (18x17in); c[irca]1665.** Metropolitan Museum, New York

[As illustrated in Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:715, in colour; this reproduction from Wikipedia]

[See last previous ts journal entry]

**2048GR~1664[ce]

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*[Marginal notes above:]

[Left margin:]

R~

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**[– Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:715]

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*I was in half a mind to leave this one out [from the the ms photocopy of the chapter on the Baroque from the Encyclopedia of Visual Arts] altogether – especially as the [illustration on] the other side [of the source page (The Presentation in the Temple by Rembrandt, 1631ce, not reproduced in the ts)] reproduces hardly at all [in the ms]. I’ve seen men like this in [the Regiment]. (The black and white repro[duction*** in the ms]** shows the essence of the character)

[A certain, perhaps slightly cynical confidence from knowing that one has been trained to, and has, killed one or more men in ‘fair fight’ and could do so again; and that the observer knows that]

**Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals; oil on canvas; 86x69cm (34x27in); 1624[ce]. Wallace Collection, London.

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*cf earlier [[Redbook9:198-200][19910428:0955l]{Utopian Landscapes}*[28th April 1991],] re Utopias and Landscapes

**[An Autumn Lanscape with a View of the Chateua de Steen by Rubens; oil on wood; 131x292cm (52x115in); c[irca]1636[ce]. National Gallery, London.]

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**[– Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:710]

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