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Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789

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ISBN-10: 0300064942

ISBN-13: 9780300064940

Edition: 1995

Authors: Michael Levey

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In this book Levey discusses the major painters and sculptors of the period that opened with Watteau and the fete galante. Famous sculptors such as Falconet and Houdon are discussed, as well as lesser-known, like Coustou and Caffieri.
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/10/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.080
Language: English

Preface
Preface to Part One of Art and Architecture of the Eighteenth Century in France
The Early Years
Painting: From La Fosse to the Death of Lemoyne and the Establishment of the Regular Salon (1737)
Portraiture: Rigaud and Largillierre and their Following
History and Decorative Painting: La Fosse - Jouvenet - Louis de Boullongne the younger - Courtin - Santerre - Antoine Coypel
Bouys - Raoux - Grimou
Jean-Francois de Troy
Audran, Huet, Gillot
Watteau
Lancret, Pater, Lajoue and Lesser Painters of Fetes Galantes
Oudry and Parrocel - The Coypel, Restout, and Lemoyne
Sculpture: From the Coustou to Slodtz
Nicolas Coustou and Guillaume Coustou I
Van Cleve - Cayot - Lepautre and Other Contemporaries
Robert Le Lorrain
The Lemoyne
Bouchardon
The Brothers Adam
Michel-Ange Slodtz
The Middle Years
Sculpture: From the Generation of Falconet and Pigalle to Pajou
Allegrain
Guillaume Coustou II
Vasse and Saly
Falconet
Pigalle
Boudard, Caffieri, Tassaert, Lecomte, Mignot, Defernex, Attiret
Pajou
Painting: Up to the Death of Boucher (1770)
Boucher
The Van Loo, Dandre-Bardon, Natoire, Tremolieres, Subleyras, Pierre - Vien
Portraiture: Nattier and Tocque - Liotard, Roslin, Aved, Nonnotte, Colson, Duparc, La Tour, and Perronneau - Drouais
Landscape: Vernet and some Lesser Painters
Chardin
Other Genre and Still-Life Painters: Jeaurat, Saint-Aubin, Roland de la Porte, Leprince, and Lepicie
Greuze
History Painters: Halle - Doyen - Lagrenee the Elder - Deshays - Brenet - Durameau
The Late Years
Sculpture: The Period of Houdon's Ancien Regime Career
Clodion
Julien
Mouchy, Boizot, the Deseine - Moitte
Chinard and Chaudet
Houdon
Painting: Up to the Salon of 1789
Fragonard
Robert, Moreau, and Other Landscape Painters
Portraiture: Duplessis - Ducreux - Vestier - Labille-Guiard - Vigee-Le Brun
Genre: Aubry and Boilly
Callet, Suvee, Peyron, Vincent, Menageot, Regnault, Jean-Germain Drouais
David
List of the Principal Abbreviations
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index