Ernest Meissonier: Master in His Genre
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Hardcover. A maroon casebound book with gilt text on the spine. Glossy, color-illustrated dust jacket. xi, 276 pages; illustrated in both black-and-white and color. VG/VG. Item #215235
ISBN: 9780521632409
"This study documents the career of one of the most widely known French artists of the nineteenth century. The embodiment of mainstream taste, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier was scorned by the avant-garde, but his jewellike genre paintings were highly regarded by his middle-class audience. Examining his art in detail, Constance Cain Hungerford follows Meissonier from his formation as a wood engraving designer to his virtuous production of small scale genre scenes, his larger battlefield paintings, and his several images of modern revolution and war. Also analyzed are the state administered exhibition system, which Meissonier worked to his advantage, and developments in the marketing of art, both in Europe and in the United States." Contents are as follows: Introduction -- Meissonier's formation -- Critical sources in the July monarchy -- The Revolution of 1848 -- The genre paintings of the Second Empire -- A banker will buy it -- A new apprenticeship in history painting -- Siege and Civil War -- The Flash of Sabres -- Achilles in his tent -- Enthroned in full glory.
OCLC: 39533856
Price: $75.00