The 18th century witnessed wonderful human forms created by William Hogarth, (see also English Figurative Painting) and
the academic classicist J.A.D. Ingres - see his Valpincon Bather (1808).
The party in question is a small, select soiree held in a book - lined London townhouse owned by Janet, a politician played by Kristin Scott Thomas, and
her academic classicist husband Bill (Timothy Spall).
In addition to works by the political
classicist painter Jacques - Louis David, the great French
academic artist Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres, and the leader of French Romanticism Eugene Delacroix, The Hermitage collection features excellent examples from the Barbizon School of plein landscape painting, by Theodore Rousseau, Jean - Baptiste - Camille Corot, Dupre, Daubigny and others, and seven masterpieces by Claude Monet, the founder of Impressionism, including: Lady in a Garden (1867), The Pond at Montgeron, and Waterloo Bridge (1903).