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The eighteenth century French paintings / Humphrey Wine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Gallery (Great Britain), author.
- Wine, Humphrey (Curator), author.
- Series:
- National Gallery (Great Britain). National Gallery catalogues
- National Gallery catalogues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting, French.
- England--London.
- National Gallery (Great Britain)--Catalogs.
- National Gallery (Great Britain).
- Painting, French--18th century--Catalogs.
- Painting--England--London--Catalogs.
- Painting.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 624 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
- Distribution:
- New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press.
- Place of Publication:
- London : National Gallery Company, 2018.
- Summary:
- The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fragonard, Watteau, and many others. This volume presents over seventy detailed and extensively illustrated entries that expand our understanding of these paintings. Comprehensive research uncovers new information on provenance and on the lives of identified portrait sitters. Humphrey Wine explains the social and political contexts of many of the paintings, and an introductory essay looks at the attitude of 18th-century Britons to the French, as well as the market for 18th-century French paintings then in London salerooms.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781857093384
- 1857093380
- OCLC:
- 1080228551
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