America collects eighteenth-century French painting
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America collects eighteenth-century French painting
National Gallery of Art in association with Lund Humphries, c2017
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Exhibition catalogue
Catalogue of the exhibition held at National Gallery of Art, Washington, May 21-Aug. 20, 2017
Checklist of the exhibition: p. 261-285
Chronology: p. 287-309
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In 1815, Joseph, elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, arrived in America, bringing with him his vast and exquisite collection of 18th-century French paintings, and a new American taste for 18th-century French painting was born. America Collects Eighteenth-century French Painting brings together some of the best and most unusual examples of this type of art that American museums have to offer, and tells their stories on a national stage. Who were the collectors, curators, museum directors and dealers responsible for bringing 18th-century French painting to America? Where are the paintings now?
The book considers America's very real fascination with France in the 18th century: a staunch ally in the Revolutionary wars, a cultural and intellectual model for Franklin, Jefferson and other Americans abroad. It also looks at the way in which the cultural ideal of 18th-century France has continued to endure in the American imagination.
Table of Contents
- Director's Foreword
- Hidden in Plain Sight: American Visions of Eighteenth-Century France, Yuriko Jackall
- Essay, Joseph J. Rishel
- Fiske Kimball and Eighteenth Century French Period Rooms at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jack Hinton
- Femmes-Artistes and America from the Early Republic to the Gilded Age, Melissa Hyde
- Buying Against the Grain: American Museums and French Neoclassical Painting, Philippe Bordes
- Case Studies, Joseph Baillio, C. D. Dickerson, Susan Earle, Robert Schindler, D. Dodge Thompson
- Epilogue, Pierre Rosenberg
- Bibliography
- Index
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