Bouchardon : royal artist of the enlightenment / Anne-Lise Desmas, Edouard Kopp, Guilhem Scherf, Juliette Trey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desmas, Anne-Lise, contributor.

Kopp, Édouard, 1974- contributor.

Scherf, Guilhem, contributor.

Trey, Juliette, contributor.

Bouchardon, Edme, 1698-1762, artist.

J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution, issuing body.

Musée du Louvre, host institution.

Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Bouchardon, Edme, 1698-1762--Exhibitions.

Bouchardon, Edme.

Bouchardon, Edme, 1698-1762.

Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)--Exhibitions.

Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France).

Artists' preparatory studies--France--Paris--Exhibitions.

Artists' preparatory studies.

Classicism in art--Exhibitions.

Classicism in art.

France--Paris.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

447 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Distribution:

[Chicago] : Distributed in the United States and Canada by the University of Chicago Press.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2016]

Contents:

Bouchardon and "His sublime idea of the beautiful" / Guilhem Scherf

"They all want to imitate him, and no one comes close": Bouchardon and the draftsmen of his time / Juliette Trey

Edme Bouchardon in Rome / Anne-Lise Desmas

Bouchardon's collectors / Édouard Kopp

Catalolgue

The portraits of Bouchardon / Juliette Trey (cat 2-8)

Copies after the antique and the master in Rome / Anne-Lise Desmas and Julitte Trey (cat. 9-45) ddd

Original compositions made in Rome / Anne-Lise Desmas (cat. 46-58)

"Almost in a single line, without hesitation and without correction": Bouchardon's académies / Juliette Trey (cat. 59-69)

Portraits and head studies / Guilhem Scherf (cat. 70-88)

Drawings for medals and tokens / Édouard Kopp (cat. 89-101)

Book illustrations / Guilhem Scherf (cat. 102-121)

The cries of Paris / Édouard Kopp (cat. 122)

The Grenelle fountain / Guilhem Scherf (cat. 123-150)

Secular compositions / Édouard Kopp (cat. 121-198)

Religious compositions / Guilhem Scherf (cat. 199-211)

Funerary monuments / Guilhem Scherf (212-217)

Cupid carving a bow from Hercules's club / Guilhem Scherf (218-230)

The monument to Louis XV / Guilhem Scherf (231-271).

Notes:

"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Bouchardon: Royal artist of the enlightenment, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from January 10 to April 2, 2017. The exhibition was originally presented as Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762). Une idée du beau, on view at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, from September 14 to December 5, 2016"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-434) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781606065068

1606065068

OCLC:

957546043