America collects eighteenth-century French painting / Yuriko Jackall, Philippe Bordes, Jack Hinton,...
America collects eighteenth-century French painting / Yuriko Jackall, Philippe Bordes, Jack Hinton,...
America collects eighteenth-century French painting / Yuriko Jackall, Philippe Bordes, Jack Hinton, Melissa Hyde, Joseph J. Rishel, Pierre Rosenberg ; with Joseph Baillio, Susan Earle, Christophe Leribault, Robert Schindler, D. Dodge Thompson.
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Publisher
Washington : National Gallery of Art ; London : in association with Lund Humphries, 2017.
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Call Numbers
GQ 2017/926
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xiii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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 collec...
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Publisher
Washington : National Gallery of Art ; London : in association with Lund Humphries, 2017.
Place of Publication
District of Columbia
Date Published
2017.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"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 represent...
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Full title
America collects eighteenth-century French painting / Yuriko Jackall, Philippe Bordes, Jack Hinton, Melissa Hyde, Joseph J. Rishel, Pierre Rosenberg ; with Joseph Baillio, Susan Earle, Christophe Leribault, Robert Schindler, D. Dodge Thompson.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes
General note
"The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
GQ 2017/926
Record Identifier
74VKVWG0aqdM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVWG0aqdM
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ISBN
1848222343 (cloth)
9781848222342 (cloth)
DDC
759.409033
MMS ID
991024139696602626
