America collects eighteenth-century French painting
By: [contributed by] Yuriko Jackall, Philippe Bordes, Jack Hinton, Melissa Hyde, Joseph J. Rishel, Pierre Rosenberg ; with Joseph Baillio, Susan Earle, Christophe Leribault, Robert Schindler, D. Dodge Thompson
Contributors: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781848222342
Subjects: French Painting; Art; Exhibitions; Neoclassicism (Art); Collectors and collecting; History
Other titles: French painting; America collects 18th-century French painting
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.
Notes: "National Gallery of Art."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Only in America / Pierre Rosenberg; title: American visions of eighteenth-century France / Yuriko Jackall; title: Fiske Kimball and French period rooms in America / Jack Hinton; title: Femmes-artistes and America from the early Republic to the Gilded Age / Melissa Hyde; title: Buying against the grain : American collections and French neoclassical paintings / Philippe Bordes; title: Notes on the American reception of eightenth-century French painting / Joseph J. Rishel.