Artists and amateurs : etching in 18th-century France / Perrin Stein ; with essays by Charlotte Guichard, Rena M. Hoisington, Elizabeth M. Rudy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stein, Perrin.

Contributor:

Guichard, Charlotte.

Hoisington, Rena M.

Rudy, Elizabeth M.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Etching, French--18th century--Exhibitions.

Etching, French.

Etching--Technique--Exhibitions.

Etching.

Art, Amateur--France--18th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Amateur.

Etching--Technique.

France.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

viii, 231 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm

Distribution:

New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press.

Other Title:

Etching in 18th-century France

Place of Publication:

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2013]

Summary:

"Throughout the eighteenth century, a large number of artists-painters, sculptors, draftsmen, and amateurs-experimented with etching, a highly accessible printmaking technique akin to drawing. Some, like Antoine Watteau and François Boucher, encountered the process within the thriving commerce of the Paris print market. Others, like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Hubert Robert, experimented with the technique during their student years in Rome. Over the course of the century, the free and improvisational aesthetic of the etching process increasingly was embraced, and French artists looked to seventeenth-century masters, such as Rembrandt in the north, and Salvator Rosa and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione to the south, for inspiration. The expressive potential of the technique was also explored in a more experimental manner by artists like Gabriel de Saint-Aubin and Louis Jean Desprez, who harnessed the inky tonalities of the medium to their personal and idiosyncratic vision"--The Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Contents:

Introduction / Perrin Stein

Learning to etch / Rena M Hoisington

On the market : selling etchings in eighteenth-century France / Elizabeth M Rudy

Etching as a vehicle for innovation : four exceptional peintres-graveurs / Rena M Hoisington

Diplomacy, patronage, and pedagogy : etching in the Eternal City / Perrin Stein

Amateurs and the culture of etching / Charlotte Guichard

Echoes of Rembrandt and Castiglione : etching as appropriation / Perrin Stein

Works in the exhibition.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2013-January 5, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-223) and index.

ISBN:

0300197004

9781588394989

1588394980

9780300197006

OCLC:

858967869

Publisher Number:

99957362198