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"Authors use sixty-eight 18th-century French paintings from American museum collections to present a fascinating American social history through the lens of taste and collecting practices. Depictions of opulent fashion, court gatherings, and decadent pleasures appealed to late 19th- and early 20th-century American collectors. Neoclassical representations of Greek heroes, with stern lessons about democracy, ethics, and moral choices, had another appeal. Both inform our culture and society today and even feature several women artists as well as one of the first mixed-race painters in the Western canon."--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher
Lund Humphries
Language
English
Pages
332

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Cover of: America collects eighteenth-century French painting
America collects eighteenth-century French painting
2017, Lund Humphries
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Table of Contents

Only in America / Pierre Rosenberg
American visions of eighteenth-century France / Yuriko Jackall
Fiske Kimball and French period rooms in America / Jack Hinton
Femmes-artistes and America from the early Republic to the Gilded Age / Melissa Hyde
Buying against the grain : American collections and French neoclassical paintings / Philippe Bordes
Notes on the American reception of eightenth-century French painting / Joseph J. Rishel.

Edition Notes

"National Gallery of Art."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Titles
French painting, America collects 18th-century French painting

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
759.409/033
Library of Congress
ND546 .A595 2017, ND546.A595 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 332 pages
Number of pages
332

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26933481M
Internet Archive
americacollectse0000unse
ISBN 10
1848222343
ISBN 13
9781848222342
LCCN
2017002879
OCLC/WorldCat
971087978

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