French paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the early eighteenth century through the Revolution / Katharine Baetjer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baetjer, Katharine, author.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

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

Painting, French--18th century--Catalogs.

Painting, French.

Painting--New York (State)--New York--Catalogs.

Painting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019.

Notes:

"This authoritative book surveys the remarkable collection of 18th-century French paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the context of the institutions that governed the visual arts in the 1700s -- the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, the Académie de France à Rome, and the Paris Salon. The works catalogued feature stunning examples by leading painters of the period, including Antoine Watteau, Jean Siméon Chardin, François Boucher, Joseph Siffred Duplessis, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Hubert Robert, Jacques Louis David, the Van Blarenberghes, and François Gérard. Katharine Baetjer provides an incisive history of the Académie Royale, its formation, principles, and regulations, and explores the beginnings of public art discourse in France. Organized chronologically by artists' birth years, the book includes a short biography of each artist and in-depth discussions of individual paintings that incorporate the most up-to-date scholarship, while numerous comparative illustrations provide essential context." -- Yale University Press website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-405) and index.

ISBN:

9781588396617

1588396614

OCLC:

1046473547

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access