Adélaïde Labille-Guiard by Laura Auricchio; J. Paul Getty Museum Staff (Contribution by)
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Publication Date: 2009-06-22
Labille-Guiard (1749-1803), a remarkable portraitist, was among the small number of women ever granted membership in the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.
Boilly: Scenes of parisian Life by Francesca Whitlum-Cooper
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ISBN: 9781857096439
Publication Date: 2019-04-23
In a long career that spanned the French Revolution and the Bourbon Restoration, Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) created innovative and daring paintings. This book includes portraiture, scenes of seduction, and groundbreaking representations of raucous Parisian street life. Demonstrates how art functioned within France's rapidly changing political environment.
Caricatures anglaises, 1789-1815: face à la Révolution et l'Empire
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Exhibition catalog of English caricatures about French politics during the Revolution and the Empire. Many of the illustrations include detailed satiric dialog and explanations in English.
Corday contre Marat: deux siècles d'images by Guillaume Mazeau
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Publication Date: 2009
This exhibition catalog explores images of Marat and Corday and their fatal encounter from French revolutionary prints to 20th century lithographs.
David by Simon Lee
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Publication Date: 1999-11-03
"More than any other artist, Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) is identified with the dramatic upheaval of the French Revolution. As a politician, he welcomed the promise of social change; as an artist he used his brush to glorify the Revolution's heroes and martyrs. When the political tide changed, David became Napoleon's chief painter, capturing the imperial pomp and contributing to the cult of military heroism."--BOOK JACKET. "In this engrossing account Simon Lee argues that David was the single most important European painter of the age, perfecting a style of dramatic and noble painting that matched exactly the contemporary desire for morally elevating images. A leading exponent of what was to be termed Neoclassicism, David was, however, capable of departing considerably from its ideals of understatement and restraint. Lee's account is the first to trace all aspects of David's career, from his intellectual interests to his entrepreneurial skills and his relationships with patrons."--BOOK JACKET.
Emulation: making artists for revolutionary France by Thomas Crow
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Publication Date: 1995-03-20
This fascinating and elegant book tells the story of five painters at the center of events in Revolutionary France: Jacques Louis-David and his extraordinarily precocious pupils Drouais, Girodet, Gerard, and Gros.
Facing the Public by Anthony Halliday
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Publication Date: 2000-04-22
Portraits were the most widely commissioned paintings in 18th-century France, but most portraits were produced for private consumption, and were therefore seen as inferior to art designed for public exhibition. The French Revolution endowed private values with an unprecedented significance, and the way people responded to portraits changed as a result.
French Caricature and the French Revolution, 1789-1799 by James Cuno (Editor)
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ISBN: 0943739063
Publication Date: 1988-12-01
Gazette des atours de Marie-Antoinette: garde-robe des atours de la reine : gazette pour l'année 1782
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Reproduces a swatch book including annotations kept by one of Marie-Antoinette's ladies of the bedchamber. The book also includes an essay on the queen's clothing with many illustrations which provides a larger context for the fabric dress samples.
The idea of art as propaganda in France, 1750-1799: a study in the history of ideas by James A. Leith
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L'imagerie révolutionnaire de la Bastille
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ISBN: 2759600904
Collections from du Musée Carnavalet.
Images of the French Revolution by Claudette Hould
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ISBN: 2551084075
From the Musée du Québec, 1989.
Jacques-Louis David by Luce De Nanteuil
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Publication Date: 1985-10-01
Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, Revolutionary Artists by Warren Roberts
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Publication Date: 1999-10-01
"By offering a comparative study of Jacques-Louis David, the most famous artist of the French Revolution, and Jean-Louis Prieur, a little-known illustrator, this book tracks the political careers of the two artists and offers new insights to the relationship between the arts and the politics of the French Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity by Jack R. Censer; Lynn Hunt
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Publication Date: 2001-02-01
This text is accompanied by a web site featuring images, primary documents, and songs. There are over 600 documents in translation as well as more than 200 images on the Web. The authors did a further site to present and analyze images of the French Revolution.
Marie-Antoinette by Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel
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From the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2008.
Marie-Antoinette and the Last Garden at Versailles by Christian Duvernois; Francois Halard (Photographer)
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Publication Date: 2008-10-07
"Marie-Antoinette has been idolized as embodying the height of eighteenth-century French style, vilified as the spark that ignited the French revolution, and romanticized as France's martyred queen. This book departs from such traditional interpretations of the notorious queen's reign and her historical impact and chooses to reflect on the humanistic aspects of her private realm, her gardens at Trianon, and her passionate curiosity for the natural world." "Marie-Antoinette's entire private domain and its story are told in beautiful photographic detail by Francois Halard and accompanied by well-researched texts by Christian Duvernois for the first time since its recent renovation."--BOOK JACKET.
Marie-Antoinette: la légèreté et la constance by Hélène Delalex
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Publication Date: 2021
Delalex brings together a dossier of sources to trace the life of Marie Antoinette. Many images and texts come from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and some are published here for the first time.
Necklines by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
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Publication Date: 1999-10-11
"Twice imprisoned after the fall of Robespierre, French painter Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) faced an artistic and personal crisis as the political and cultural values he had embraced crumbled in the mid-1790s. This book examines the crucial period of David's artistic career as he struggled both to "save his neck" and to recast his identity in the aftermath of the Reign of Terror. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth examines David's work in the context of the larger cultural and social formations emerging in France and offers a new perspective on his paintings and on French artistic culture at an important point in its history."--BOOK JACKET.
Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Thomas E. Crow
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Publication Date: 1987-09-10
Le Panthéon, symbole des révolutions
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Peintures françaises du XVIIIème siècle by Sophie Join-Lambert
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Musée des beaux-arts, 2008
The Perfect Foil by Elizabeth C. Mansfield
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Publication Date: 2011-12-21
François-André Vincent and the Revolution in French painting.
Pomp and Power by Xavier Salmon
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Publication Date: 2006-09-01
This lavish and beautiful catalogue illustrates and discusses fifty-two French drawings dating from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, all from the Chateau de Versailles, which owns one of the finest collections of French drawings in the world. The catalogue has been prepared to accompany their exhibition at the Wallace Collection in autumn 2006.
Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France by Amy Freund
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ISBN: 9780271061948
Publication Date: 2014-06-30
Challenges widely held assumptions about both the genre of portraiture and the political and cultural role of images in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. After 1789, portraiture came to dominate French visual culture because of the Revolution's chief concern: how to turn subjects into citizens. Revolutionary portraits allowed sitters and artists to appropriate the means of representation, both aesthetic and political, and articulate new forms of selfhood and citizenship, often in astonishingly creative ways.
Representations of Revolution, 1789-1820 by Ronald Paulson
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Publication Date: 1983-05-01
Representing the French Revolution by James A. Heffernan (Editor)
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Publication Date: 1992-04-01
Fourteen essays examine how the French Revolution has been represented in art, literature, and historical narratives from England, France, Germany, and the Caribbean.
Royalists to Romantics by Jordana Pomeroy (Editor); Laura Auricchio; Melissa Lee Hyde; Mary D. Sheriff
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Publication Date: 2012-03-20
Collections of the Louvre, Versailles, and Fontainebleau represent female artists from 1750-1848. This catalog documents an exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and examines 18th-century French theories of sexual difference and the "woman-artist question"; paradoxical Revolutionary attitudes toward women artists, who encountered as many new limitations as opportunities; and the complex ways that women marketed their reputations and managed their cultural positions in France's intricate social and artistic hierarchy.
Satire, prints and theatricality in the French Revolution by Claire Trévien
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Publication Date: 2016
Following an account of the historical and social contexts of Revolutionary printmaking, the author analyses over 50 works, incorporating scenes such as street singers, unsanctioned Revolutionary events, and the representation of Revolutionary characters in hell. Through analysing these depictions as an ensemble, focusing on style, vocabulary, and metaphor, Claire Trévien shows how prints were a potent vehicle for capturing and communicating partisan messages across the political spectrum.
Trianon and the Queen's Hamlet at Versailles: A Private Royal Retreat by Jacques Moulin; Francis Hammond (Photographer); Yves Carlier (Contribution by)
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ISBN: 9782080204103
Publication Date: 2019-11-12
Trianon and the Queen's Hamlet at Versailles explores life at the private outbuildings of Versailles, including Grand Trianon, Petit Trianon, and the Queen's Hamlet. In 1687, the sun king Louis XIV conceived of the Grand Trianon and its exceptional parterres and fountains as a seamless link between court and garden--a private retreat where he could withdraw with his family and escape the heavy hand of protocol. This volume, rich with photography, is both a historical testimony and an intimate visit on the grounds of the palace of Versailles.
Visualizing the Nation by Joan B. Landes
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Publication Date: 2001-05-31
Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice, and the republic played a crucial role in the passage from old regime to modern society.
The Wicked Queen by Julie Rose (Translator); Chantal Thomas
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Publication Date: 2001-08-24
The author analyzes the verbal and visual images of the queen who was portrayed in popular pamphlets from the beginning as a foreign hussy without any sexual morals.