Stories of the French artists from Clouet to Delacroix / collected and arranged by P.M. Turner and C.H. Collins Baker
1909, 1st edition. London : Chatto & Windus. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #425780
Physical description: xiii, 343, [1] pages : 32 plates (8 color including frontispiece) ; 21 cm. Contents: Introduction -- The early painters of France -- The commencement of the Renaissance -- The Clouets -- The followers of the Clouets -- Le Nain and Nicholas Poussin -- Gaspard Poussin and Claude Lorraine -- Vouet, Bourdon, Le Sueur -- The reign of Louis XIV : Colbert and Le Brun -- Mignard, Van der Meulen, and Coypel -- The portrait painters Rigaud and Largillière -- Desportes and Oudry -- The regency and the reign of Louis XV -- Anthony Watteau -- Lancret and Pater -- Chardin -- Latour and Perronneau -- François Lemoine -- Jean François de Troy -- Carle van Loo -- François Boucher -- Fragonard -- Joseph Vernet -- Hubert Robert -- Jean Baptiste Greuze -- Pierre Prud'hon -- Portrait painters of Louis XV and XVI -- Jacques Louis David -- Jean Dominique Auguste Ingres -- Eugène Delacroix. Subjects: Artists France. Artists, French.
Price: €28.00