Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one of the most audacious and original landscape artists of his age. Throughout his career, he continually experimented with composition, light, paint handling, and pictorial structure in innovative new ways that challenged traditional--and contemporary--painting. He taught himself by working side-by-side with ...
Offers a study of the famous home of Henry Clay Frick, which houses the "Frick Collection" in New York City. This work examines the history of the house and how it influenced the collection itself.
Colin B. Bailey of the Frick Collection evaluates the paintings of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), emphasizing his commissioned work, the sensuality of his paintings, and the combination of popularity and scandal that accompanied them in the public eye.
The catalogue for an exhibition of Renoir portraits, this text includes essays investigating the artist's career as a portrait painter and biographies of all the figures represented in the portraits in the exhibition.
During the final decades of the ancien regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David, and others that together comprised "l'Ecole Francoise", the French School. In this work, an eminent art historian discusses six of these collectors and the collections they ...
Jean-Baptiste Greuze created "The Laundress" in 1761. This work traces the history of the painting, compares it to other Greuze paintings of laundresses and places the artist in the social and cultural mores of the period.
The Walter and Lee Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolours, and drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art comprises one of the most remarkable groupings of avantgarde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. A revised and updated edition of the 1989 publication "Masterpieces of ...
The French art collection at the Huntington Library is remarkable for its depth and breadth. This authoritative and beautifully illustrated book focuses on the nearly 300 objects in the collection, including its exceptional examples of furniture, clocks, gilt bronzes, gold snuff boxes, porcelain, tapestries, sculpture, and paintings.Organized by ...
A comprehensive survey of French genre painting of the 18th century, from Watteau's "fetes galantes" to Boilly's paintings of modern Parisian life. Showcasing 113 works, the volume illustrates the variety and the vitality of genre painting throughout the period. Leading English, German, French and American scholars shed light on the development of ...
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