In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting

Prominent art historians Philip Conisbee, Sarah Faunce, Jeremy Strick, Peter Galassi, and Vincent Pomarede discuss the cultural, theoretical, and art historical background of this school of outdoor painting. They examine the early history of open-air painting, its theory and practice, the sites of Rome and southern Italy that were painted, and the delicate balance that existed among realism, memory and imagination. A rich selection of representative paintings is discussed and reproduced. The book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Strick, Jeremy

Conisbee, Philip

Faunce, Sarah

Biographies & Memoirs

National Gallery Washington

This inviting book offers the first comprehensive survey of French genre painting of the eighteenth century, from Watteau’s fêtes galantes to Boilly’s paintings of modern Parisian life. Showcasing 113 works, the book 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 genre painting, its interpretation, its collectors, and its enormous appeal. Here are gathered together masterpieces by such eminent artists as Watteau, Lancret, de Troy, Chardin, Boucher, Greuze, Fragonard, Robert, and Boilly. The wide range of their featured works encompasses military scenes, theatrical subjects, hunt pictures, pastorals, domestic life, moral pictures, fishwife subjects, paintings for the boudoir, and panoramas of the Enlightenment in landscapes and townscapes. Each work is thoroughly catalogued, and an appendix lists all genre paintings shown in the eighteenth-century Salons.

The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting

Arts & Photography

Bailey, Colin B.

Gaehtgens, Thomas W.

Painting

Yale University Press

Published on the centenary of the death of Paul Cézanne (18391906), this stunning book celebrates the artist’s depictions of his native Provence. While Cézanne is recognized as one of the fathers of the modern movement, this publication focuses on his own sense of achievement, especially as a painter exploring the landscape in and around his hometown of Aix-en- Provence. Although he spent time elsewhere in France, especially Paris, Cézanne repeatedly returned to Provence, where he lived nearly all of the last twenty years of his life.In studios at the Jas de Bouffan and at Les Lauves, and on painting expeditions into the surrounding countryside, Cézanne created some of his most original and compelling works, not only landscapes but also portraits of local characters, friends, and family; still lifes, and imaginative figure paintings, such as the monumental bathers painted in the last decade of his life.Beautifully illustrated with some 160 paintings and watercolors, Cézanne in Provence offers fascinating insights into a true genius in the history of art and his beloved native countryside.

Cézanne in Provence

Coutagne, Denis

History & Criticism

Georges de La Tour's haunting depiction of a repentant Mary Magdalen gazing into a mirror by candlelight; Jean Siméon Chardin's perfectly balanced image of a young boy making a house of cards; Jean Honoré Fragonard's monumental suite of landscapes showing aristocrats at play in picturesque gardens--these are among the familiar and beloved masterpieces in the National Gallery of Art, which houses one of the most important collections of French old master paintings outside France. This lavishly illustrated book, written by leading scholars and the result of years of research and technical analysis, catalogues nearly one hundred paintings, from works by François Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun in the eighteenth.
 French art before the revolution is characterized by an astonishing variety of styles and themes and by a consistently high quality of production, the result of an efficient training system developed by the traditional guilds and the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded in 1648 by King Louis XIV. The National Gallery collection reflects this quality and diversity, featuring excellent examples by all the leading painters: ideal landscapes by Claude Lorrain and biblical subjects by Nicolas Poussin, two artists who spent most of their careers in Rome; deeply moving religious works by La Tour, Sébastien Bourdon, and Simon Vouet; portraits of the grandest format (Philippe de Champaigne's Omer Talon) and the most intimate (Nicolas de Largillierre's Elizabeth Throckmorton); and familiar scenes of daily life by the Le Nain brothers in the seventeenth century and Chardin in the eighteenth. The Gallery's collection is especially notable for its holdings of eighteenth-century painting, from Jean Antoine Watteau to Hubert Robert, and including marvelous suites of paintings by François Boucher and Fragonard. All these works are explored in detailed, readable entries that will appeal as much to the general art lover as to the specialist.

French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century (National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogues)

Princeton University Press

Discusses the development of the artistic career of the 18th century French painter and examines his still life paintings

Chardin

Individual Artists

UNKNO

Published to accompany an international exhibition, this is a study of the portraits by the French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. They were created over the first seven decades of the 19th century and were described by a critic in 1855 as "the most faithful image of our epoch". The book brings together a wide range of original-source materials, including letters, critical reviews, biographical documents and photographs. The major portraits are discussed and reproduced, and more than 100 portrait drawings and many preparatory studies are also included.

Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch

Tinterow, Gary

National Gallery Great Britain

Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique

Naef, Hans

Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.)

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Book by Conisbee, Philip, Freeman, Judi, Rand, Richard

Monet to Matisse: French Art in Southern California Collections

Rand, Richard

Freeman, Judi

Los Angeles County Museum

Appears new. NO sign of use or wear. Spine unopened. Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Softcover. 0875871607 . Interior is clean, bright, and unmarked; exterior clean. One fold-out, profusely illustrated in color/b&amp;w. "The purpose of this catalogue is to celebrate twenty years of Ahmanson gifts by publishing them all in full color, together with scholarly entries that present the current state of knowledge about each piece."; 11.5" tall; 207 pages . Sold by Friends of the Fullerton Library. 16

The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Levkoff, Mary L.

1996 Edition. No markings. No creases. Bought at National Gallery. From private collection. Well taken care of.

BROOKLYN MUSEUM

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Natl Gallery of Art

Georges de La Tour and His World

Georges de La Tour, now considered one of the greatest painters of 17th-century France, was virtually forgotten until the early 20th century. Since the major retrospective in Paris in 1972, new paintings have continued to emerge. This beautiful book is a complete overview of La Tour's work and will serve as the catalogue for a major exhibition opening at the National Gallery in October 1996. 40 b&amp;w illustrations. 150 color plates.

Georges De LA Tour and His World

Cuzin, Jean-Pierre

Kimbell Art Museum

LA Tour, Georges Du Mesnil De

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