Patriotic Taste
Subtitle: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780300089868
Subjects: Art funding, patronage & sponsorship; Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Painting & paintings; c 1700 to c 1800; 18th Century Art; Art Patronage; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Collecting; European; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Art / History / European; Europe - France; History - General; 18th century; Collectors and collecting; France; History; Painting; Painting, French; Paris
Description: "During the final decades of the ancient regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David and others that together comprised 'l'Ecole Francoise' - the French School. In this book, an art historian discusses six of these collectors and the collections they assembled, showing that private patronage in this period was revitalized by this patriotic desire to collect contemporary art.".

"Colin B. Bailey explains why a taste for modern art emerged at this time and how it was encouraged and fostered. Examining the relationship between artist and patron, he discusses the degree of influence these enlightened patrons and collectors expected to exercise when new works were being commissioned. Bailey shows that collectors of eighteenth-century French painting seem not to have made rigid distinctions between the various genres or styles of the Academy's practitioners.

Instead, history paintings and genre paintings - both rococo and neo-classical - were exhibited proudly on their walls as superb examples of the French School."--BOOK JACKET.