French Watercolors of the 18th CenturyThis book, the first entirely devoted to French watercolors of the eighteenth century, reviews the masterpieces of an art that has been too long neglected. The 42 color plates of the works of such celebrated painters as Fragonard, David, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, and Louis Moreau, and of Hoin, Hilair, and other minor masters, form a moving image of the realities of French life to the eve of the Revolution. The biographies, Philippe Huisman's esthetic evaluation, and the explanation of the technique provide the necessary elements for the understanding of a highly original art in which there was already visible the grace and sincerity that assured the triumph, one hundred years later, of the French Impressionists.--From front cover. |
Contents
Introduction by Philippe Huisman | 9 |
Antier Place Vendôme the Capuchin Convent | 28 |
Jacques Charlier Cupid Beseeching Venus | 34 |
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