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Ernest Meissonier : master in his genre / Constance Cain Hungerford.
Fine Arts Library ND553.M5 H86 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hungerford, Constance Cain.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891--Criticism and interpretation.
- Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest.
- Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891.
- History in art.
- Narrative painting--France--19th century.
- Narrative painting.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 276 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This study documents the career of one of the most widely known French artists of the nineteenth century. The embodiment of mainstream taste, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier was scorned by the avant garde but was highly regarded by his middle-class clientele for his jewel-like genre paintings. Examining his art in detail, Constance Cain Hungerford follows Meissonier's formation as a wood-engraving designer, to his virtuoso production of small scale genre scenes, his larger battlefield paintings, and his several images of modern revolution and war. Also analyzed is the state-administered exhibition system, in which Meissonier excelled, as well as the developing art market, in both Europe and the United states.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521632404
- OCLC:
- 39533856
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