18th Century French Painting; Author: Jarrasse, Dominique; Paperback

Author: Jarrasse, Dominique
Paperback; 150 Colour Illustrations
208 pages
Published: October 1999
Editions Pierre Terrail
ISBN: 2879392039

French eighteenth-century painting is characterized by its immense variety, ranging from the grand manner -- history painting -- to so-called minor genres such as still-life and portraiture. Artists such as Boucher and Fragonard drew inspiration from many different sources: famous biblical or mythological episodes, to flutes galantes, and bourgeois domestic scenes. Jarasse explains the key artists and movements within this turbulent century and charts with high-quality, full-color illustrations the progressive emancipation of painters that paralleled the spread of Enlightened thinking. Artists surveyed include Watteau, Fragonard, Boucher, Greuze, Chardin and David as well as lesser-known but equally notable painters including Coypel, Le Moyne, Vernet, Oudry, Nattier and others.Offers a wide-ranging panorama of French painting during the century of the Enlightenment. This text offers the reader a wide-ranging panorama of French painting during the century of Enlightenment. It features the achievements of such great artists as Watteau and Fragonard while also covering lesser-known but equally notable painters.