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Louisiana Nude by Andrew LaMar Hopkins Southern Folk Artist
This is the first of ten paintings in a collection by myself called "The Historic New Orleans Collection"
In this painting I show a Louisiana interior from the early 19th century from about 1820. During this time Louisiana had been bought by America in 1803. With the flood of Americans, American design in interior decoration was greatly influencing the Francophile designs that dominated Louisiana during the 18th century. The Louisiana interior of the late 18th century early 19th century was greatly influenced by both Anglo-Saxon and French design gracefully blended together. In this painting I show the extreme in this case of a fashionable Louisiana Creole Federal period interior greatly influenced by the latest taste of the Eastern Seaboard.
The architecture of the room is American Federal in style with touches of Creole design. The French door surround with it fluted woodwork trim and carved acanthus corner blocks are typical of the American Federal style of this period. The French doors and transom are French Creole touches to a American design and show how both American and Creole styles were blended in early American Louisiana. In most rooms in Louisiana from the 2th half of the 18th century thru the early 19th century all woodwork trim were usually painted the same bright color, doors,windows, mantels, baseboards etc. Walls were generally painted off white cream colors. This changed by the early 19th century during the Federal period as bright colors of Rome And Greece were being used in American Federal interiors. .
The only piece of locally made furniture in the painting is the Armoire. A unitarian piece of furniture in Louisiana that could be used in any room. This style of Louisiana armoire was greatly influenced by the Eastern Seaboard. with it's strait skirt & tapering turned and reeded brass ball feet. French styled Louisiana armoires often have scalloped skirts on French cabriole legs a design made in Louisiana circa 1750-1830. The upper part of the armoire retains the overhanging flat cornice and paneled doors used on many Louisiana armoires. With staped brass escutcheons and fische hinges.
The rest of the furniture is New York city made. In 1811 the first continuous line of river steamboats left the Ohio River on to New Orleans making East Coast furniture tread more excisable to Louisiana. The elegant classical bedstead in the French manner is by French-born American cabinetmaker Charles-Honoré Lannuier working in New York city for 16 short years before his death in 1819 at the age of 40. The mahogany French style bedstead with upholstery designed after engravings in Pierre de La Mésangère's Collection de Meubles et Objets de Goût (1802-1835), has brass eagle heads terminating at the carved and turned post ending in carved hairy paw feet. This style of bed although made in New York city would appeal to the French Creoles of Louisiana. The bed being French in form and American Federal in Style.
The upholstered furniture & basin stand is from the shop of Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854). The 'Grecian" chair also called a Tub cabriole chair circa 1817 with carved mahogany paw feet acanthus legs and reededing thru out upholstered in black horsehair, a very durable fabric of the period. The footstool 1815-1820 is also covered in horsehair on a reeded base on gilt brass paw feet. The basin stand in mahogany veneer with gilt-brass rosette knobs and paw feet.
Tacked to the Cypress random with floors is a Classical styled floorcloth also called oilcloth brought to Louisiana by Americans in the early 19th century. Floorcloths are painted and varnished stenciled canvas in patterns of rugs are marble floors. They were tacked down to wooden floors and could be easily boomed or mopped clean, They were the forerunner of modern-day linoleum. Although we know from inventory's of the 18th and early 19th century that European rugs were used in Louisiana they did not hold up well in Louisiana's Sub-tropical heat and humidity. Most of the year during the Summer months cooler grass straw matting replaced expansive wool rugs that were used during Winter.
Decorative arts such as porcelain were almost always imported from Europe mostly from France in the Case of Louisiana. Such as the late 18th century Louis XVI styled Paris made porcelain pitcher and wash basin in the butterfly and bug pattern first introduced by Meissen. The pair of Paris porcelain Empire classical vases on the European gold gilt cornucopia wall brackets, are hand painted in Neoclassical taste. 16 x 16 unframed.
I'm a self Southern taught Folk artist . Folk art is also called outsider art. I was born in Mobile Alabama. At a early age my artwork was inspired by old architecture and 19th century culture. This is shown in my artwork today. I latter moved to New Orleans a city known for it's neat culture & old architecture. Living in the Old French Quarter, I created Old world style scenes.My artwork is inspired by my international travels. The French Quarter inspires me and influenced my artwork. I now live in Baltimore MD because of Hurricane Katrina. Baltimore inspires me even more with it's beautiful art and architecture.
I call my self a realist Folk Artist. A folk artist because I'm self taught. Realist because my artwork is realistic in the 19th century American tradition of folk artist. My artwork is inspired by my travels to Europe, Historic towns in America and Mexico. In my paintings I try to show Historic architecture, culture and the people of the time in period costume. In the 19th century style of American Folk artist.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 00298 |
| Condition:
Good |
Year:
2008
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| Country:
American |
Maker:
Andrew LaMar Hopkins |
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| Title:
Louisiana Nude by Andrew LaMar Hopkins Southern Folk Artist |
Style:
Folk Art |
| Materials:
Acrylic on Canvas |
Type:
Southern Folk Art |
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