Gérôme & Goupil: Art and Enterprise
Paris: Editions de la Reunion des musees nationaux, 2000. English. Softcover. Black & color illus. wraps, French flaps, 176 pp., profusely illus. VG (Page edges are tanning lightly; several toward the back were left inaccurately cut at the top corner during production and are a tad longer than need be.). Item #138234
ISBN: 2711841529
Issued in conjunction with several 2000-2001 exhibitions, exploring the collaboration between French academic painter Jean-Leon Gérôme (1824-1904) and the publishing firm founded in Paris by his father-in-law, Adolphe Goupil (1806-1893). "Juxtaposes soem twenty of Gerome's most striking paintings with one hundred reproductions published by Goupil, demonstrating how effectively the art of the Paris Salon could be transformed into popular imagery." (back cover).
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