tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807469356676934317.post6660303746843686018..comments2024-03-25T10:50:11.187-07:00Comments on Gods and Foolish Grandeur: Genre paintings by Jean-Baptiste Mallet, circa late 1780s - 1790sStephiliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08562830870365561419noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807469356676934317.post-42272380291781681022015-06-10T14:30:23.904-07:002015-06-10T14:30:23.904-07:00Love these little snapshots of 'how they lived...Love these little snapshots of 'how they lived' back then.... instagram of the 18th century!ArchitectDesign™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01481754380363676771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807469356676934317.post-44809457068383081642015-06-10T12:28:57.795-07:002015-06-10T12:28:57.795-07:00Actually, the people in these paintings would be m...Actually, the people in these paintings would be more the middle class, the bourgeoisie. (Still more affluent than what we would understand as "middle class", though.) And the naughty pictures were usually kept in portfolios or special-built cabinets.Stephiliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08562830870365561419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807469356676934317.post-46816526876766663672015-06-10T10:23:21.712-07:002015-06-10T10:23:21.712-07:00As you say, not very adept technically, but his vi...As you say, not very adept technically, but his views of the upper class, doing all their upper-classy indolent things really are a marvelous chronicle of a time. The naughty ones? One does wonder where, and how one displayed such things. Paul G. Ellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02134358778441543921noreply@blogger.com