America collects eighteenth-century French painting / Yuriko Jackall [and ten others].

Title:

America collects eighteenth-century French painting / Yuriko Jackall [and ten others].

Alternative Title:

America collects 18th-century French painting.

Author:

Jackall, Yuriko,

Call Number:

759.4 N277

Publication Information:

Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art, in assocation with Lund Humphries, 2017.

Physical Description:

xii, 332 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31cm.

Description:

"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.

Language:

English.

Subjects:

Painting, French Exhibitions. 18th century , Neoclassicism (Art) Exhibitions. 18th century France , Art Collectors and collecting History 19th century. United States , Art Collectors and collecting History 20th century. United States

Organizations:

National Gallery of Art (U.S.),

Credit Line:

Gift of the National Gallery of Art; May 30, 2017;