Author: Pierre Remy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Catalogue raisonné de tableaux de différens bons maîtres des trois écoles ... qui composent le cabinet de feu M. Aved ...
Catalogue raisonné de tableaux de différens bons maîtres des trois écoles, figures, bustes & autres ouvrages de bronze & de marbre, de porcelaines, & autre effets qui composent le cabinet de feu M. Aved, peintre du Roi & de son académie [1766].
Catalogue raisonné de tableaux de différens bons maîtres des trois écoles, de figures, bustes and autres ouvrages de bronze and de marbre, de porcelaines, and autres effets qui composent le cabinet de feu M. Aved, peintre du Roi and de son Académie... Cette vente se fera le lundi 24 Novembre 1766... rue de Bourbon, à côté de la petite porte de l'église des Théatins
Patriotic Taste
Author: Colin B. Bailey
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300089868
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
During the final decades of the ancient regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David and others that together comprised 'l'Ecole Francoise' - the French School. In this book, an art historian discusses six of these collectors and the collections they assembled, showing that private patronage in this period was revitalized by this patriotic desire to collect contemporary art. Colin B. Bailey explains why a taste for modern art emerged at this time and how it was encouraged and fostered. Examining the relationship between artist and patron, he discusses the degree of influence these enlightened patrons and collectors expected to exercise when new works were being commissioned. Bailey shows that collectors of eighteenth-century French painting seem not to have made rigid distinctions between the various genres or styles of the Academy's practitioners. Instead, history paintings and genre paintings - both rococo and neo-classical - were exhibited proudly on their walls as superb examples of the French School.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300089868
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
During the final decades of the ancient regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David and others that together comprised 'l'Ecole Francoise' - the French School. In this book, an art historian discusses six of these collectors and the collections they assembled, showing that private patronage in this period was revitalized by this patriotic desire to collect contemporary art. Colin B. Bailey explains why a taste for modern art emerged at this time and how it was encouraged and fostered. Examining the relationship between artist and patron, he discusses the degree of influence these enlightened patrons and collectors expected to exercise when new works were being commissioned. Bailey shows that collectors of eighteenth-century French painting seem not to have made rigid distinctions between the various genres or styles of the Academy's practitioners. Instead, history paintings and genre paintings - both rococo and neo-classical - were exhibited proudly on their walls as superb examples of the French School.