num_pages: 320
description: Imagined scenes of daily life by Watteau, Chardin, Fragonard, Greuze, and other 18th-century French artists are the subject of this important new study. The wide range of these artists’ works encompasses domestic subjects, portraits and fashion plates, and depictions of stylish entertainments, seductions, and sentimental tales. Examples span the century, from the time of Louis XIV to the French Revolution.Fifteen distinguished scholars present their latest research into the contexts and meanings of French genre painting during this period. The authors offer a variety of critical and historical perspectives, covering such topics as the relationship of genre painting to contemporary life and to sexuality, sentiment, and sensibilité ; its patrons and collectors; its popularization through reproduction in the print trade; its contemporary critical reception; and its resonances through subsequent centuries, continuing to our own time.Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts/Distributed by Yale University Press
language: English
title: French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century (Volume 72)
titlecomplete: French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century (Volume 72) (Studies in the History of Art Series)
genres: Art
ratings_count: 5
series: Studies in the History of Art Series
publisher: NGW-Stud Hist Art