French paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the early eighteenth century through the Revolution / Katharine Baetjer.
2019
ND546 .B34 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
French paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the early eighteenth century through the Revolution / Katharine Baetjer.
Author
Baetjer, Katharine, author.
ISBN
9781588396617 (hardcover)
1588396614 (hardcover)
1588396614 (hardcover)
Published
New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2019]
Distributor
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
Language
English
Description
407 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Call Number
ND546 .B34 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
759.40933
Summary
"This authoritative book surveys the remarkable collection of 18th-century French paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the context of the institutions that governed the visual arts in the 1700s -- the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, the Académie de France à Rome, and the Paris Salon. The works catalogued feature stunning examples by leading painters of the period, including Antoine Watteau, Jean Siméon Chardin, François Boucher, Joseph Siffred Duplessis, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Hubert Robert, Jacques Louis David, the Van Blarenberghes, and François Gérard. Katharine Baetjer provides an incisive history of the Académie Royale, its formation, principles, and regulations, and explores the beginnings of public art discourse in France. Organized chronologically by artists' birth years, the book includes a short biography of each artist and in-depth discussions of individual paintings that incorporate the most up-to-date scholarship, while numerous comparative illustrations provide essential context." -- Yale University Press website
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-405) and index.
Added Corporate Author
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), owner.
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Table of Contents
Director's foreword
Acknowledgements
Donors of French Eighteenth-century paintings
A note to the reader
"The virtues of great men and the moste elevated mysteries" : A summary history of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris, with notes on the Salon /
Acknowledgements
Donors of French Eighteenth-century paintings
A note to the reader
"The virtues of great men and the moste elevated mysteries" : A summary history of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris, with notes on the Salon /