| By Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, with Larry J. Feinberg and Martha Wolff
This award-winning volume focuses on the museum's important holdings of French and British paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the significant painters represented are David, Fragonard, Fuseli, and Gainsborough. Each work is accompanied by a detailed description of its physical condition, a fully documented provenance, and a critical discussion of previous research, attribution, date, subject, and function. The entries, lauded for "scholarship that is both meticulous and accessible" (The Times Literary Supplement), analyze close to one hundred works that represent the full range of painting in France and England during this period, including portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and genre and history subjects.
Winner of Award of Excellence in the 1997 Chicago Book Clinic Design Competition
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996
8 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.; 332 pages; 202 illustrations (42 color, 160 duotone)
Hardcover $110.00 ISBN 0-691-015643
This book is available from Princeton University Press.
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