Fragonard in the universe of painting / Dore Ashton
1988, First Edition. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #400895
ISBN: 0874742080
Physical description; 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-250) and index. Contents; Introduction: the painter's dream of light -- The painter as puzzle -- The painter's apprentice -- RIgors of the academy in Paris -- Life at the academy in Rome -- Nature as art, art as artifice -- Exhilaration at Tivoli -- Colorplates -- completing the Grand Aesthetic Tour -- Home to Paris -- Portraits of fantasy -- Tangling with Terpsichore -- The progresso f love -- Italy revisited -- The fete at Saint-Cloud -- En famille -- Orlando and Quixote -- Before the deluge -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected bibliography. Subjects; Fragonard, Jean-Honoré 1732-1806 Criticism and interpretation. Painting, French 18th century. Painting, Modern 17th-18th century France. French paintings Fragonard, Jean Honoré.
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