The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher
The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher

Author: David Pullins

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2024-08-13

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1606068881

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This book provides a new way of thinking about eighteenth-century French art and visual culture by prioritizing production over reception. Abandoning the ideologically driven discourse that distinguished fine from decorative art between the 1690s and 1770s, The Mobile Image reveals how the two have been inextricably bound from the earliest stages of artistic instruction through the daily life of painters’ workshops. In this study, author David Pullins defines artisanal and artistic means of learning, seeing, and making through a system of “mobile images”: motifs that were effectively engineered for mobility and designed never to be definitive, always awaiting replication and circulation. He examines the careers of Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and François Boucher, situating them against a much broader cast of actors—such as printmakers, publishers, anonymous studio assistants, and architects, among others—to place eighteenth-century painting within a wider context of media and making.

Le public et la politique des arts au siècle des Lumières
Le public et la politique des arts au siècle des Lumières

Author: Christophe Henry

Publisher: William Blake And Company

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13:

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Avec l'invention du Public, le rôle de la critique et des médias, la culture encyclopédiste, la réévaluation des valeurs du passé et la politique réformatrice qui facilite l'émergence d'un nouvel art urbain face à l'art de cour, ce sont autant de questions apparues en Europe au XVIIIe siècle que l'histoire stylistique des oeuvres et des artistes, traditionnelle, ne traite guère. Du moins, les études qui se consacrent à la production artistique du siècle des Lumières, dans le champ des sciences humaines, ne touchent que trop peu le public d'aujourd'hui, largement sous-informé de l'extrême diversité des arts au XVIIe siècle et des mécanismes qui les réunit dans l'idée même de progrès. Agissant parmi le public, comme amateur très averti et donneur de leçons imaginatives et morales, Denis Diderot, critique d'art, témoigne pour ce public autant qu'il l'incite à réagir.

French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution
French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution

Author: Katharine Baetjer

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2019-04-15

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1588396614

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This publication catalogues The Met’s remarkable collection of eighteenth-century French paintings in the context of the powerful institutions that governed the visual arts of the time—the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, the Académie de France à Rome, and the Paris Salon. At the height of their authority during the eighteenth century, these institutions nurtured the talents of artists in all genres. The Met’s collection encompasses stunning examples of work by leading artists of the period, including Antoine Watteau (Mezzetin), Jean Siméon Chardin (The Silver Tureen), François Boucher (The Toilette of Venus), Joseph Siffred Duplessis (Benjamin Franklin), Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Broken Eggs), Hubert Robert (the Bagatelle decorations), Jacques Louis David (The Death of Socrates), the Van Blarenberghes (The Outer Port of Brest), and François Gérard (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord). In the book’s introduction, author Katharine Baetjer provides a history of the Académie, its establishment, principles, and regulations, along with a discussion of the beginnings of public art discourse in France, taking us through the reforms unleashed by the Revolution. The consequent democratizing of the Salon, brought about by radicals under the leadership of Jacques Louis David, encouraged the formation of new publics with new tastes in subject matter and genres. The catalogue features 126 paintings by 50 artists. Each section includes a short biography of the artist and in-depth discussions of individual paintings incorporating the most up-to-date scholarship.

The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

Author: Beatrice Pannequin

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 0300073380

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The tumultuous years of the French Revolution left France’s prestigious decorative arts industries poised on the brink of ruin. It was not until after the fall of the monarchy and the ascendancy of the Consulat and Empire under Napoleon that they began to recover so that by the middle of the nineteenth century they stood at the pinnacle of their achievement. This book is the first in depth study of the renowned porcelain works at Sèvres during its virtual rebirth under the 47 year direction of the scientist, teacher, and administrator Alexandre Brongniart. Some 110 working drawings from the Sèvres Archive are reproduced here for the first time in color. They celebrate the high skill of the artists whose work often documented contemporary events in France. There are table services in the 'Egyptian' and 'Etruscan' taste as well as individual pieces that recall Napoleonic military campaigns. There are also exquisite Neoclassical decorations using motifs such as birds, butterflies, and insects that reflect the century’s early fascination with the natural sciences. The repertoire of nineteenth century eclecticism is evident in the output of Sèvres from the revival of Gothic and renaissance motifs to the outburst of naturalism. Eleven essays by leading authorities assess this dynamic period.

The Eighteenth Century French Paintings
The Eighteenth Century French Paintings

Author: National Gallery (Great Britain)

Publisher: National Gallery Catalogues

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13:

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The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fragonard, Watteau, and many others. This volume presents over seventy detailed and extensively illustrated entries that expand our understanding of these paintings. Comprehensive research uncovers new information on provenance and on the lives of identified portrait sitters. Humphrey Wine explains the social and political contexts of many of the paintings, and an introductory essay looks at the attitude of 18th-century Britons to the French, as well as the market for 18th-century French paintings then in London salerooms. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press

Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution
Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution

Author: A. Potofsky

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-10-29

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 0230245285

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Examining the social and political history of workers and entrepreneurs engaged in constructing the French capital from 1763-1815, this book argues that Paris construction was a core sector in which 'archaic' and 'innovative' practices were symbiotically used by guilds, the state, and enterprises to launch the commercial revolution in France.

Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century
Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century

Author: Wendy Bellion

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-01-26

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1350259055

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Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth century experienced artistic, economic, and demographic transformations that exerted unique pressures on material cultures around the world. Locating material objects at the heart of such phenomena, Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century expands beyond Eurocentric perspectives to discover the mobile, transcultural nature of eighteenth-century art worlds. From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resistance in various ways. By embracing things both elite and everyday, this volume investigates physical and technological manipulations of objects while attending to the human agents who shaped them in an era of accelerating global contact and conquest. Featuring ten essays, the volume foregrounds diverse scholarly approaches to chart new directions for art history and cultural history. Ranging from California to China, Bengal to Britain, Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century illuminates the transformations within and between artistic media, follows natural and human-made things as they migrate across territories, and reveals how objects catalyzed change in the transoceanic worlds of the early modern period.

French Art: The Ancien Régime, 1620-1775
French Art: The Ancien Régime, 1620-1775

Author: André Chastel

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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The renowned art historian Andre Chastel intended his history of art in France from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century to be the crowning achievement of his long and distinguished career. The fruit of ten years of research and writing, this fully documented and erudite study goes beyond conventional art historical analysis to get at the heart of over two millenia of artistic creation.

The New British Galleries
The New British Galleries

Author: Wolf Burchard

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1588397114

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Celebrating the reopening of the British Galleries, this Bulletin documents years of renovation and rethinking that formed these majestic spaces, which represent more than four hundred years of British decorative arts from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Featuring artwork in an extraordinary range of styles and materials, this publication and the redesigned galleries it documents highlight a panoply of Britain’s artistic and economic aspirations. The texts place these works—from masterpieces commissioned by rulers Elizabeth I and George III to luxury goods imported from abroad, including small boxes, scent bottles, and miniature vanity cases—in a uniquely British context while also acknowledging and addressing their global significance. Stunning photography captures highlights from the more than seven hundred works of art in the collection as well as installation views, both past and present.