The society portrait
Subtitle: painting, prestige and the pursuit of elegance
By: Gabriel Badea-Päun ; foreword by Richard Ormond.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson; THAMES HUDSON
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780500238424
Subjects: Portraits -- History -- 19th century.; Portraits -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Published simultaneously in New York by Vendome Press under title: The society portrait: from David to Warhol.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Portrait: between reality and the ideal, truth and beauty; title: Renaissance of a genre; title: Splendors of the Second Empire; title: Realism verus Impressionism; title: The Belle Époque: portraiture at its zenith; title: Decline of a genre.