| Description |
ix, 412 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm |
| Note |
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 6-Sept. 7, 2003, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Oct. 12, 2003-Jan. 11, 2004, and the Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Feb. 8-May 9, 2004. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-392) and index. |
| Contents |
Surveying genre in eighteenth-century French painting / Colin B. Bailey -- The theory of French genre painting and its European context / Barbara Gaehtgens -- "Sorti de son genre" : genre painting and boundary crossing at the end of the Ancien Régime / Martin Schieder -- Genre paintings in eighteenth-century collections / Thomas W. Gaehtgens -- Child's play / Katie Scott -- Exoticism and genre painting in eighteenth-century France / Marianne Roland Michel. |
| Subject |
Genre painting, French -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Conisbee, Philip.
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Gaehtgens, Thomas W., 1940-
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National Gallery of Canada.
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National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
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Gemäldegalerie (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
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| ISBN |
0300099460 cloth alkaline paper |
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088884767X paperback alkaline paper |
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