Tradition & transitions : eighteenth-century French art from the Horvitz Collection / edited by Alvin L. Clark, Jr. ; preface by Pierre Rosenberg de l'Académie française.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Alvin L., Jr., 1962- editor.

Rosenberg, Pierre, writer of preface.

MacAvock, Jane, translator.

Musée du Petit Palais (Paris, France), host institution.

Horvitz Collection, issuing body, publisher.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Horvitz Collection--Exhibitions.

Horvitz Collection.

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

Art, French.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Essays.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

701 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, photographs ; 31 cm

Manufacture:

Ghent, Belgium : Graphius Deckers Snoeck.

Other Title:

Tradition and transitions

18th century French art from the Horvitz collection

Place of Publication:

[Boston, Massachusetts] : The Horvitz Collection, [2017]

Language Note:

Text in English, translated from the French.

Summary:

This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue provide the visitor and reader with an exploration of the "tradition and transitions" of manners and themes that formed and shifted throughout the art of eighteenth-century France. Examples of works that reveal both the concurrent and successive styles of the long eighteenth-century of French draftsmanship from Charles de La Fosse and Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet at the end of the seventeenth century to the genesis of the Rococo (Claude Gillot, Jean-Antoine Watteau, François Le Moyne) and the Generation of 1700 (Edme Bouchardon, François Boucher, Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, Jacques Dumont, CharlesJoseph Natoire, Pierre-Hubert Subleyras, the Vanloos, which took the French School to its early maturity. Their students, particularly Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Hubert Robert, benefited from and greatly expanded upon this rich inheritance as some of their contemporaries (Charles-Nicolas Cochin le jeune, Joseph-Marie Vien, Jean-Baptiste Deshays, Gabriel-François Doyen) simultaneously searched for a new, less florid mode of expression that eventually led to the Neoclassicism of JacquesLouis David and his generation in the closing decades of the century. Their students then explored stylistic and thematic variations of that manner into the next century. The wealth of this collection enables visitors to see a full array of the art made within these successive generations by well-known masters as well as by lesser-known artists who were often considered to be their equals in their own time. It also reveals the large variety of regional styles from artists working in important centers other than Paris.

Contents:

Mayor's Foreword / Anne Hidalgo

Director's Foreword / Christophe Leribault

Introduction and Acknowledgements / Alvin L. Clark, Jr.

Preface: Building a Collection, Building Your Collection / Pierre Rosenberg de l'Académie française

Marianne Roland Michel and Eighteenth-Century French Art / Christian Michel

Interview with Jeffrey E. Horvitz / Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Christophe Leribault

Catalogue of the Exhibition

List of Contributors

Drawings

Sculptures

Paintings

Notes to the Catalogue

Appendices and Indices

Appendix of Eighteenth-Century Pastels

Appendix of Other Early French Art in The Horvitz Collection / Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Francesco Buccella

Index of Former Owners

Index of Cited Works

Index of Artists

Bibliography

Illustration Credits.

Notes:

"This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of The Horvitz Collection at the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, 21 March-9 July 2017" -- Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 677-697) and index.

"Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from the Horvitz Collection" : March 21-July 9, 2017, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.

ISBN:

9780991262519

0991262514

OCLC:

1021859160