Catalogue de dessins anciens et de quelques modernes estampes anciennes, lithographies provenant de la Collection de feu M. Desperet dont la vente ... aura lieu par suite de son décès Hotel des Commissaire-priseurs Rue Drouot, no 5 Salle no 3 dessins les mercredi 7, jeudi 8, vendredi 9 & samedi 10 juin 1865 ... Salle no 6 gravures & lithographies les lundi 12 & mardi 13 juin 1865 ... Me Delbergue-Cormont, commissaire-priseur ... assisté de M. Clément ...


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The Private Collection of Edgar Degas


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This catalogue and its companion volume of essays are published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Private Collection of Edgar Degas," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 1, 1997, to January 11, 1998.




Icons - Texts - Iconotexts


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Collection de Feu M. M. Estampes Anciennes


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Collection de feu M. Thomas Shaw... Dessins anciens et modernes... Date de l'edition originale: 1869 [Collection (Art). Shaw, Thomas. 1869] Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF. Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique. En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles. Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr




The Spectacle of Nature


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Explores the perception of nature in early 19th-century France. The book centres on a discussion of subjectivity and class and the way in which the process of looking at the countryside reinforced the identity of the metropolitan bourgeoisie - and especially men.




Catalogue d'une vaste collection de dessins, gravures anciennes et modernes, lithographies, tant noires que coloriées, estampes historiques, caricatures historiques, vues anciennes et modernes de pays et villes, et d'une collection énorme de portraits, etc., etc. formant la cinquième partie d'une riche bibliothèque, dont la vente aura lieu le 15 mai 1865 et jours suivants, par les libraires J. van Baalen & Fils, ... au local des ventes publiques, Geldersche Kade, à Rotterdam


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Philostratus


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Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture


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The first English-language monograph on the French dancer and model, Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture explores the haunting legacy of this intriguing and glamorous figure, an international celebrity at the dawn of our star-struck modernity. Situating Mérode at a pivotal moment in the history of fame and visual culture, this study probes the neglected prehistory of a visual culture obsessed with celebrities and their images.




Gendering Landscape Art


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While gender has been the subject of extensive critical inquiry, the debate has focused primarily on the human, particularly the female, body. The spaces bodies occupy and the ways in which those spaces are depicted in landscape art has not, however, been subject to investigation. This book is the first sustained attempt to fill this gap in art history.




Patriotic Taste


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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.