Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789

by Michael Levey

• ISBN13: 9780300064940
• ISBN10: 0300064942
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1995-09-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Genius and talent combine to render both brilliant and varied the image of painting and sculpture in France in the last years of the ancien regime. The outpouring of creative activity and of inspired patronage, both public and private was then unparalleled elsewhere. Gifted exponents of sculpture include the Coustou, Michel-Ange Slodtz, and Caffieri, besides the better-known Falconet, Pigalle, and Houdon: their often monumental work provides a salutary reminder of the seriousness of intention in an age often still stereotyped as frivolous and lightweight. In painting, Restout, Vernet, Oudry and others were appreciated at least as much as Boucher, and portraiture, genre, and still life were all well served. The era may have opened with Watteau and the fete galante, but it closed with a revival of history painting, and with an artistic revolutionary in the person of David. Bringing new insights and information to bear on the work of the great French artists and sculptors of the eighteenth century, Levey has created a book that is at once beautiful and instructive.

Table of Contents

Preface
Preface to Part One of Art and Architecture of the Eighteenth Century in France
The Early Years
Painting: From La Fosse to the Death of Lemoyne and the Establishment of the Regular Salon (1737)
Portraiture: Rigaud and Largillierre and their Following	p. 4
History and Decorative Painting: La Fosse - Jouvenet - Louis de Boullongne the younger - Courtin - Santerre - Antoine Coypel	p. 10
Bouys - Raoux - Grimou	p. 18
Jean-Francois de Troy	p. 21
Audran, Huet, Gillot	p. 25
Watteau	p. 29
Lancret, Pater, Lajoue and Lesser Painters of Fetes Galantes	p. 43
Oudry and Parrocel - The Coypel, Restout, and Lemoyne	p. 47
Sculpture: From the Coustou to Slodtz
Nicolas Coustou and Guillaume Coustou I	p. 62
Van Cleve - Cayot - Lepautre and Other Contemporaries	p. 72
Robert Le Lorrain	p. 83
The Lemoyne	p. 85
Bouchardon	p. 93
The Brothers Adam	p. 101
Michel-Ange Slodtz	p. 107
The Middle Years
Sculpture: From the Generation of Falconet and Pigalle to Pajou
Allegrain	p. 120
Guillaume Coustou II	p. 121
Vasse and Saly	p. 124
Falconet	p. 126
Pigalle	p. 137
Boudard, Caffieri, Tassaert, Lecomte, Mignot, Defernex, Attiret	p. 146
Pajou	p. 154
Painting: Up to the Death of Boucher (1770)
Boucher	p. 160
The Van Loo, Dandre-Bardon, Natoire, Tremolieres, Subleyras, Pierre - Vien	p. 173
Portraiture: Nattier and Tocque - Liotard, Roslin, Aved, Nonnotte, Colson, Duparc, La Tour, and Perronneau - Drouais	p. 186
Landscape: Vernet and some Lesser Painters	p. 198
Chardin	p. 204
Other Genre and Still-Life Painters: Jeaurat, Saint-Aubin, Roland de la Porte, Leprince, and Lepicie	p. 213
Greuze	p. 217
History Painters: Halle - Doyen - Lagrenee the Elder - Deshays - Brenet - Durameau	p. 225
The Late Years
Sculpture: The Period of Houdon's Ancien Regime Career
Clodion	p. 238
Julien	p. 245
Mouchy, Boizot, the Deseine - Moitte	p. 250
Chinard and Chaudet	p. 252
Houdon	p. 255
Painting: Up to the Salon of 1789
Fragonard	p. 267
Robert, Moreau, and Other Landscape Painters	p. 275
Portraiture: Duplessis - Ducreux - Vestier - Labille-Guiard - Vigee-Le Brun	p. 278
Genre: Aubry and Boilly	p. 282
Callet, Suvee, Peyron, Vincent, Menageot, Regnault, Jean-Germain Drouais	p. 283
David	p. 287
List of the Principal Abbreviations	p. 298
Notes	p. 299
Select Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 311
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