In 1804, at the dawn of the French Empire, there were no more than a handful of Spanish paintings in public collections in France. During the course of the nineteenth century, however, French collectors and museums assembled substantial holdings of works by such Spanish masters as Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo, and Goya. At the same time, French writers and artists―among them Delacroix, Géricault, Courbet, Millet, Bonnat, Degas, and, especially, Manet―came to understand, appreciate, and even emulate Spanish painting of the Golden Age. This beautiful book features over 150 works by French and Spanish artists, charting the development of this cultural influence and mapping a fascinating shift in the paradigm of painting: from Idealism to Realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque. Above all, it vividly demonstrates how direct contact with Spanish painting fired the imagination of nineteenth-century French artists and brought about the triumph of Realism in the 1860s, and with it a foundation for modern art. American artists of the second half of the nineteenth century often turned to Europe for training and inspiration. Whistler, Cassatt, Eakins, Chase, and Sargent all traveled to Spain for firsthand exposure to its artistic heritage and experienced the thrill of discovering Spanish painting. Also included in this volume are works by American artists that clearly reflect the pervasive influence of and taste for Spanish painting.

Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Arts & Photography

Tinterow, Gary

Lacambre, Geneviève

History & Criticism

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) was one of the most influential and idiosyncratic painters of the nineteenth century. He developed a reputation as an artistic hermit, committed to a highly personal vision of painting that combined myth, mysticism, history, and a fascination with the bizarre and exotic. Yet Moreau was also a prominent public figure in the Paris art world, winning praise for exhibits at the Salon, becoming a respected teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and exerting a powerful influence on Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, and the schools of Symbolism and Surrealism. This book, published to coincide with a spectacular international exhibition that marks the centenary of Moreau's death, presents a wide range of the artist's most famous and beautiful works along with penetrating essays and catalogue entries that explain his unique achievements in all their intellectual complexity and visual richness.
 The volume reproduces and describes in detail more than 200 of Moreau's works, ranging from such well-known paintings as Orpheus and The Apparition (one of his many treatments of Salome and the beheaded John the Baptist) to lesser known but revealing watercolors, drawings, and sculptures. Two particularly important paintings--Oedipus and the Sphinx and Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra--are the focus of longer descriptions that cast light on Moreau's working methods. Geneviève Lacambre, Director of the Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris, introduces the volume and contributes an essay about Moreau's passionate interest in the "exoticism" of other cultures, particularly those of Persia and India. Marie-Laure de Contenson describes the artist's powerful attraction to medieval art and aesthetics. Larry Feinberg shows that Moreau was deeply influenced by the Italian Renaissance and, in particular, Leonardo and Michelangelo. Douglas Druick writes about Moreau's evocative symbolic language, which drew on unique reinterpretations of mythical figures and events to convey the artist's anxieties about the immorality and materialism of his age.
 This is a powerfully written and visually stunning record of the creativity and exquisite craftsmanship of Moreau's distinctive contributions to nineteenth-century art.

Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream

Individual Artists

Princeton University Press

Provides a close-up look at the life and work of nineteenth-century French artist Gustave Moreau, whose decorative style, mystical qualities, and exquisite rendering inspired a generation of Symbolist painters and writers. Original.

Discoveries: Gustave Moreau (Discoveries Series)

Harry N. Abrams

Painting in the Musee D'Orsay

Scala Books

Manet/Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting

Musee, D'Orsay

Roldan, Deborah L.

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

This illustrated book accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition - the first of such scale and depth to be organized around this subject - that traces the roots of Modernism in mid-nineteenth-century French Realism. In 1804, at the dawn of the French Empire, there were no more than a handful of Spanish paintings in public collections in France. During the course of the nineteenth century, however, French collectors and museums assembled substantial holdings of works by such Spanish masters as El Greco, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Murillo, and Goya, while French writers and artists - among them Hugo and Baudelaire, Gericault, Delacroix, Millet, Courbet, Degas, and especially Manet - came to understand, appreciate, and even emulate Spanish painting of the Golden Age. Here approximately two hundred works by French and Spanish artists chart the development of this cultural influence and map a fascinating shift in the paradigm of painting, from Idealism to Realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque. Above all, these images demonstrate how direct contact with Spanish painting fired the imagination of nineteenth-century French artists and brought about the triumph of Realism in the 1860s, and with it a foundation for modern art.

Book by Simpson, Juliet, Flandrin, Jules Leon, Flandrin, G., Lacambre, Genevieve, Whiteley, Jon, Farrant, Tim

Jules Flandrin, 1871-1947: The Other Fin De Siecle

Whiteley, Jon

Farrant, Tim

Simpson, Juliet

Flandrin, Jules Leon

Flandrin, G.

Ashmolean Museum

Book by Simpson, Juliet, Flandrin, Jules Leon, Flandrin, G., Lacambre, Genevieve, Whiteley, Jon, Farrant, Tim

Jules Flandrin 1871-1947: The Other Fin De Siecle

Gustave Moreau, maître sorcier

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Gallimard]

Gustave Moreau (ALBUM SOMOGY)

Cooke, Peter

Capodieci, Luisa

Somogy éditions d'art / Réunion des Musées

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