The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting
Paperback
2003
by Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, June 6 to September 7, 2003; two additional venues
2003. Paperback. Good+. (edge-wear to covers. scuffs & scratches to textblock edges. lower corner of pgs crimped/creased. discolored scratches & foxing to title pg, otherwise, volume appears clean.). Pictorial wraps. ix, 412 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Photo is of another copy in our collection. Organized by Colin Bailey, Philip Conisbee, and Thomas Gaehtgens. This exhibition was the first comprehensive survey of French genre painting of the 18th century, from Watteau"s fete galantes to Boilly"s paintings of modern Parisian life. The book and exhibition feature 113 works in illustration of the variaty & vitality of genre painting throughout the period, featuring works, as well, by Lancret, de Troy, Chardin, Boucher, Greuze, & Robert that encompass military scenes, theatrical subjects, hunt pictures, pastorals, domestic & moral pictures, paintings for the boudoir, & panoramas of the Enlightenment in landscapes & townscapes. Works are thoroughly annotated. List of all genre paintings in 18th-century Salons. (Inventory #: 181893)