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December 2022

Vol. 164 | No. 1437

Painting in nineteenth-century France

Editorial

Attacks on art

 

Iconoclasm is a fashionable subject. Art historians have always had an interest in it – the work of Dario Gamboni, Robin Cormack, Margaret Aston and Wendy Bellion immediately comes to mind – but there has recently been a flurry of scholarly activity on the history of the destruction of images.

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Exhibition Review

Leighton House Museum, London

One could illustrate changing attitudes to Victorian art through the vicissitudes of Leighton House. When Frederic Leighton died in January 1896 this most opulent of studio-homes was lined with works of art, from Islamic tiles to nineteenth-century French paintings, displayed in an interior ‘built’, as his sisters wrote, ‘for his own artistic delight’.

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  • The Ollioules gorges

    Hippolyte and Paul Flandrin at Saint-Séverin, Paris

    By Stéphane Paccoud,Elena Marchetti
  • Duel after the masquerade

    ‘After the duel’: an early painting by Paul Delaroche

    By Stephen Bann
  • Ptolemais delivered to Philippe-Auguste and Richard the Lionheart of England, 11th or 12th July 1191

    Innovation and empiricism: Delacroix’s ‘Taking of Constantinople by the Crusaders’

    By Simon Lee
  • Masthead of Le Chat Noir, no.1 (14th January 1882)

    Rejection and revenge: Adolphe Willette, Jacques-Louis David and Henri Gervex

    By Richard Thomson
  • Reading (portraits of Suzanne Manet and her son, Léon Koëlla- Leenhoff)

    Suzanne Manet and Léon Leenhoff: a mystery solved

    By Thera Coppens
  • Female nude (Leda)

    Cut from the same cloth: a composite canvas by Paul Cezanne

    By Kiko Aebi,Abed Haddad
  • ‘The Virgin and the Apostles’

    The fate of the ‘Lawrence Gallery’: Samuel Woodburn and the National Gallery

    By Nicholas Penny
  • Detail of Jane (née Roberts) Jervis, first wife of Swynfen Jervis

    Dunkirk, Delaroche and Delacroix

    By Simon Jervis
  • Embarkation for Cythera

    Embarking for Cythera: Watteau’s ‘Feste galante’

    By Martin Sonnabend
  • 7. A view of buildings in a valley in the Île-de-France

    Nineteenth-century French paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    By Michael Clarke
  • London’s ‘Golden Mile’: The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650. By Manolo Guerci.

    By Andrew Saint
  • Cryptes médiévales et culte des saints en Île-de-France et en Picardie. Edited by Paul Gillon and Christian Sapin.

    By Richard Gem
  • Les portails du transept de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris: Architecture, sculpture, polychromie. Edited by Stephan Albrecht, Stefan Breitling and Rainer Drewello, transl. K. Mazurié de Keroualin

    By Caroline Bruzelius
  • Au prisme du manuscrit: Regards sur la littérature française du Moyen Âge (1300–1550). Edited by Sandra Hindman and Elliot Adam

    By Catherine Yvard
  • Cofanetti in pastiglia del Rinascimento / Pastiglia boxes of the Renaissance. By Claudio Bertolotto

    By Jeremy Warren
  • Murillo: Persuasion and Aura. By Benito Navarrete Prieto

    By Peter Cherry
  • The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France. By Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss

    By Gauvin Alexander Bailey
  • Dividing Paris: Urban Renewal and Social Inequality, 1852–1870. By Esther da Costa Meyer

    By Jonathan Ribner
  • A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years, 1933–1943. By John Richardson

    By Christopher Green
  • Paul Nash: Designer and Illustrator

  • Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics. Barbican Art Gallery, London

    By Catherine Spencer
  • The Lindisfarne Gospels. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

    By Bernard Meehan
  • Paris Bordon, 1500–1571: Pittore divino. Museo Santa Caterina, Treviso

    By Andrea Gianluca Donati
  • Sofonisba: History’s Forgotten Miracle. Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå

    By Robert B. Simon
  • Rubens a Genova. Palazzo Ducale, Genoa

    By Gregory Martin
  • Fake News and Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic. Krannert Art Museum, Champaign

    By Armin Kunz
  • Füssli: Entre rêve et fantastique. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris

    By David H. Solkin
  • Wanderlust: Dutch Artists Abroad 1800–1900. Dordrechts Museum

    By Lorenz van der Meij
  • Leighton House Museum, London

    By Susan Owens
  • William Kentridge. Royal Academy of Arts, London

    By Isabel Seligman