Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism
London / New York: Harry N Abrams, 2003. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, color illustrated dust jacket with white lettering on cover and spine, 296 pp.illustrated throughout, mostly in color. VG/VG (minor shelf wear at corners of dust jacket, book is almost as new). Item #181414
"After years of wartime stand-off, the period of high Romanticism (1820-1840) was one of fervent cultural exchange between France and Britain. In the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, British artists contributed regularly to Paris Salons, shared studios with French colleagues, collaborated with Parisian print publishers, and served as drawing masters to the French aristocracy. Tourists from both countries criss-crossed the channel. Watercolor painting, in which the British excelled, caught the imaginatoin of French painters and collectors for the first time, and France was swept by enthusiasm for British literature: the publication of Scott's historical romance Ivanhoe in 1819 caused as much of a sensation in Paris as the exhibition of Gercault's painting The Raft of the Medusa did in London the following year. Although some British influence on French painters is generally acknowledged, its full extent has never been the subject of a major exhibition." - dust jacker description.
OCLC: 52515412
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