This catalogue of a major exhibition of small-scale paintings by Goya surveys his work throughout his career. It includes sketches for tapestry cartoons, for his major altarpieces, his small portraits and the series of small paintings of the 1790s.

Goya: Truth and Fantasy: The Small Paintings

Wilson-Bareau, Juliet

Marques, B. Mena Manuela

Arts & Photography

Yale University Press

Manet: The Execution of Maxmillian (UK only)

A study of Manet's three paintings of the execution in 1867 of Maximilian, the puppet emperor of Mexico. This text was inspired by a National Gallery exhibition, which united Manet's paintings of the execution for the first time since his death in 1883.

National Gallery London

Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare

Edouard Manet’s Gare Saint-Lazare, a painting he exhibited as Le Chemin de fer (The Railway), has always intrigued as much as it has delighted critics, scholars, and the art-loving public. Shown at the Paris Salon in 1874, the year of the first Impressionist exhibit, this enigmatic work provides a glimpse of the great stone and iron Pont de l’Europe next to the Gare Saint-Lazare where powerful steam engines were sheltered. Symbolizing energy and progress, the railroad became a focus for Manet, Monet, Caillebotte, and many other artists in the decades after the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune. Based on new research into the streets and studios of Paris, this book identifies the precise site of Manet’s picture, painted shortly after his move to a new studio. The book reveals fresh meaning behind the artist’s seemingly straightforward depiction of an urban scene and contrasts his major works of the 1870s with earlier key paintings that also featured Manet’s favorite model, Victorine Meurent. The book also explores the atmosphere of Manet’s studio and his close relationship with poet and critic Stéphane Mallarmé. Along with Manet, other artists celebrated the Pont de l’Europe, the Gare Saint-Lazare, and the Paris skyline beyond, while Monet sketched and painted within the station and down on the tracks, capturing the bustle and energy there. A comparison of Manet’s and Monet’s urban views sheds light on the crucial question of plein air versus studio painting. This book is the catalog for an exhibit that opens at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris on February 9, 1998 and moves to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in May, 1998. Copublished with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

History & Criticism

During his lifetime, the industrialist and collector Norton Simon (1907–1993) amassed a trove of European paintings, drawings, and prints by Rembrandt, Picasso, Degas, and others. Simon occasionally became fascinated with a particular artist's oeuvre, and that passion inspired him to assemble monographic holdings of work by several masters, chief among them Francisco de Goya (1746–1828). This book is the first to examine the extraordinary Goya collection—which includes more than 1,400 prints, a drawing, and three paintings—in the founder's namesake museum. Simon's enduring interest in serial images led him to acquire prints from various series and editions treating a range of subjects, such as religious iconography, landscapes, portraits, and social satire. Spotlighting rare proofs and single prints, the catalogue also presents a complete set each of Los Caprichos, Disasters of War, and other seminal series. Lushly illustrated and authored by a distinguished Goya scholar, this catalogue is an essential guide to a treasure trove of the artist’s works.

Goya in the Norton Simon Museum

Norton Simon Distribution

The execution by firing squad in 1867 of Maximilian, the puppet emperor installed in Mexico by Napoleon III, was to have far-reaching implications, shattering the international prestige of France and hastening the collapse of the Second Empire. For Edouard Manet, already known in Paris as a non-conformist painter, this tragic event led to a surge of anti-imperial sentiment in his work, causing him to be labeled politically dangerous as well as artistically subversive. In this richly illustrated book, Juliet Wilson-Bareau reveals in Manet's paintings a political side little known to general admirers of impressionist art. Not only does she discuss the circumstances in which Manet painted his three large versions of The Execution of Maximilian, often seen as an isolated outburst of political feeling, but she also shows that many of his most familiar works from the 1860s take issue with contemporary events. Drawing from eyewitness accounts and newspaper reports, Wilson-Bareau examines possible sources for the paintings and the development of Manet's imagery. Douglas Johnson's historical account of the French intervention in Mexico, and John House's discussion of Salon painting in the 1860s, place Manet's choice of subject and style in a broad context of political and artistic opposition to Napoleon III. Inspired by an exhibition at the National Gallery in London, this book presents Manet's paintings alongside related drawings, sketches, prints, and photographs.

Manet: The Execution of Maximilian: Painting, Politics, and Censorship

Princeton University Press

Chronicling the essential moments in Manet's life, a detailed examination of his works highlights 240 full-color reproductions and considers Manet's role as an important avant-garde and impressionist artist.

Manet by Himself

Painting

Chartwell Books

Manet by Himself: Correspondence and Conversation : Paintings, Pastels, Prints and Drawings

Individual Artists

Bulfinch Pr

Over 35 years, alongside his paintings and prints, Francisco Goya expressed his creative genius in eight albums of drawings. Split up after his death, their pages scattered across various collections, the albums remain little known. This book reunites over 100 of the drawings.

Goya: Drawings from His Private Albums

Bareau, Juliet Wilson

Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

A series of etchings from three artists are the subject of this dramatic book. Jacques Callot's Miseries of War, published in 1633; Goya's The Disasters of War, rendered between 1810 and 1820; and Otto Dix's War, last issued in 1924, are separated by centuries yet connected to a noble tradition in European war art, that of realism and protest.Three authoritative essays by eminent historians give detailed accounts of the etchings and place them in their historical context. The relevance of these works today is apparent when noting the titles. "One can't watch this," "Bury them, without a word," "It's already too late," "Dead man in mud," and "House destroyed by bombs" are examples that address the plight of war's victims across the centuries.

Disasters of War: Callot, Goya, Dix

Griffiths, Antony

Willett, John

University of California Press

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Goya: Truth and Fantasy: The Small Paintings

Manet: The Execution of Maxmillian (UK only)

Manet: The Execution of Maxmillian (UK only)

Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare

Goya in the Norton Simon Museum

Manet: The Execution of Maximilian: Painting, Politics, and Censorship

Manet by Himself

Manet by Himself: Correspondence and Conversation : Paintings, Pastels, Prints and Drawings

Goya: Drawings from His Private Albums

Disasters of War: Callot, Goya, Dix