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Recasting and republicanising Millet’s horizons: Félicien Rops, Jean-François Raffaëlli and Jean-Charles Cazin
05/2025 | 1466 | 167
Pages: 460–69
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Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)
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1. Flight of crows, by Jean-François Millet. c.1866. Pastel and black conté crayon on blue-grey paper, 39.4 by 52.7 cm. (Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh).
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10. The day’s work done, by Jean-Charles Cazin. 1888. Oil on canvas, 199 by 166 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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11. The sower, by Jean-François Millet. c.1865. Pastel and black crayon on pale brown paper, 36 by 43 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).
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12. Coquelin aîné, by Dornac. 1891. Albumen print, 14 by 19 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France).
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2. White horse in a wasteland, by Jean-François Raffaëlli. c.1890. Oil on board, 30.5 by 39.4 cm. (Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover, Hanover; Bridgeman Images).
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3. The end of the furrow, by Félicien Rops. (From O. Uzanne: Son Altesse la Femme, Paris 1885, opposite p.207).
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4. The watering place, by Jean-François Millet. (From É. Pécaut and C. Baude: L’Art: Simples Entretiens à l’Usage de la Jeunesse, Paris 1885, p.207).
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5. Tobias and the Archangel Raphael, by Jean-Charles Cazin. 1880. Oil on canvas, 186 by 142 cm. (Musée de Beaux-Arts, Lille; Bridgeman Images).
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6. Ragpicker lighting his pipe, by Jean-François Raffaëlli. 1879. Oil on canvas, 77 by 59 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes; Alamy Stock Photo).
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7. Return of the flock, by Jean-François Millet. 1863–64. Black conté crayon and pastel on paper, 38.7 by 50.3 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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8. The Angelus, by Jean-François Millet. 1855–57. Oil on canvas, 55.5 by 66 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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9. Cazin – Cachez se sein que je ne saurais voir! Exemple de pudeur bien rare chez un terrassier, by Stop. 1888. (From Salon Humoristique Illustré, Paris 1888, p.66).
Article
‘The swing’ by Jean-Honoré Fragonard: new hypotheses
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 446–469
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Jackall, Yuriko (Jackall, Yuriko)
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1. Les hazards heureux de l’escarpolette, by Nicolas Delaunay after Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1782. Etching and engraving. 62.1 by 45.0 cm. (sheet). (Cleveland Museum of Art).
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10. Menacing Cupid, by Étienne-Maurice Falconet. 1757. Marble, height 185 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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11. Detail of Fig.2, showing the woman gesturing on the swing.
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12. The Neapolitan gesture, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1757. Oil on canvas, 73 by 94.3 cm. (Worcester Art Museum; Bridgeman Images).
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13. The sale of cupids, by Joseph-Marie Vien. 1763. Oil on canvas, 116 by 141 cm. (Château de Fontainebleau; Bridgeman Images).
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14. Duthé lying down, by Lié-Louis Périn-Salbreux. 1778. Oil on canvas, 65 by 75.8 cm. (Musée des beaux-arts, Reims).
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15. Detail of The well-loved mother, by Jean Massard after Jean- Baptiste Greuze. 1775. Engraving with etching on laid paper. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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16. Detail of Fig.2, showing the older man and the dog.
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17. Detail of Portrait of a young woman, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1770s. Oil on canvas. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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18. Detail of Woman with a dog, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. c.1769. Oil on canvas. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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19. The drunken Silenus, accompanied by nymphs and satyrs, by Willem Panneels after Peter Paul Rubens. 1632. Etching, 14.7 by 15.3 (trimmed sheet). (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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2. The swing, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1767. Oil on canvas, 81 by 64.2 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
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20. Coresus sacrificing himself to save Callirhoe, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1765. Oil on canvas, 309 by 400 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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21. Photomicrograph of The swing (taken near area of foliage in lower left). Photograph taken with a Leica M60 stereomicroscope at 20x magnification by painting conservator Martin Wyld.
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22. Detail of The confessional, by Pierre-Étienne Moitte after Pierre- Antoine Baudouin. 1777. Etching and engraving. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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23. Photomicrograph of The swing (taken in lower-left foliage). Photograph taken with a Leica M60 stereomicroscope at 20x magnification by painting conservator Martin Wyld.
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24. The swing, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1775–80. Oil on canvas, 215.9 by 185.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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25. The good mother, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. c.1773–79. Oil on canvas, 49 by 39 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).
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26. Detail of Fig.24, showing the positions of the figural group.
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27. Rest on the flight into Egypt, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1781. Pen, black chalk and brown washes highlighted with watercolour on paper, 42.2 by 34 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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28. L’armoire (The wardrobe), by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1778. Brown ink over black chalk, 34 by 46.5 cm. (Hamburger Kunsthalle).
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29. Le verrou (The bolt), by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1778. Red chalk, brush, brown ink, touches of pen and brown ink, pen and brown ink framing line, 24 by 36.5 cm. (Courtesy Christie’s, New York).
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3. Detail of Fig.2, showing the younger man.
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30. Les hazards heureux de l’escarpolette, by Nicolas Delaunay after Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1782. Etching and engraving, 38.8 by 30.4 cm. (Artstor).
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31. La bonne mère, by Nicolas Delaunay after Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1779. Etching, 67.8 by 53.6 cm (sheet). (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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32. Portrait of François-Marie Ménage de Pressigny. Oil on canvas, 60.5 by 49 cm. (Courtesy Galerie Noblesse des grands siècles, Paris / Valérie Pagé).
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33. La bascule (The see-saw), by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. c.1752. Oil on canvas, 120 by 94.5 cm. (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).
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34. Detail of Le billet doux, by Nicolas Delaunay after Nicolas Lavreince. 1778. Etching and engraving. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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4. Detail of The swing, showing layers of yellow varnish partially removed.
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5. Blonde odalisque, by François Boucher. 1752. Oil on canvas, 59 by 73 cm. (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
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6. Woman urinating, by François Boucher. 1760s. Oil on canvas, 51.5 by 40.5 cm. (Private collection).
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7. Le Matin (Morning), by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin. c.1767. Gouache over traces of graphite, paper pasted onto board, 25.9 by 19.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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8. The rising, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 1770. Oil on canvas, 74 by 59 cm. (© Los Angeles County Museum of Art; collection of Lynda & Stewart Resnick, Los Angeles).
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9. Detail of Fig.2, showing the gesture of the sculpture of Cupid.
Article
Rejection and revenge: Adolphe Willette, Jacques-Louis David and Henri Gervex
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1210-1215
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Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)
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1. Parce Domine, parce populo tuo!, by Adolphe Willette. 1884. Oil on canvas, 200 by 390 cm. (Musée de Montmartre, Paris; © Archives Charmet / Bridgeman Images).
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2. A meeting of the painting jury, by Henri Gervex. 1885. Oil on canvas, 299 by 419 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; © Peter Willi / Bridgeman Images).
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3. The tennis court oath, by Jacques-Louis David. 1791. Graphite, pen and sepia wash heightened with white on paper, 65 by 105 cm. (Musée national du Château de Versailles; Bridgeman Images).
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4. The painting jury – a sketch of the painting by Gervex after Jacques-Louis David, by Adolphe Willette. Photomechanical process, 31 by 45 cm. (Le Chat noir, 2nd May 1885).
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5. Masthead of Le Chat Noir, no.1 (14th January 1882), by Henri Pille. (Private collection).
Article
Innovation and empiricism: Delacroix’s ‘Taking of Constantinople by the Crusaders’
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1196-1209
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Lee, Simon (Lee, Simon)
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1. Taking of Constantinople by the Crusaders, by Eugène Delacroix. 1840. Oil on canvas, 410 by 498 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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10. Sketch for the Taking of Constantinople, by Eugène Delacroix. c.1839–40. Oil on canvas, 33 by 41 cm. (Musée Condé, Chantilly).
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11. Sketch for the Taking of Constantinople, here attributed to Eugène Delacroix. 1840. Oil on canvas, 65 by 81 cm. (Private collection; photograph courtesy of Collins Fine Art Ltd, New York).
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12. Drawing for the Taking of Constantinople, by Eugène Delacroix. c.1839–40. Graphite on paper, 20.7 by 33.8 cm. (Département des Arts Graphiques, Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 42753).
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2. Louis-Philippe and the royal family visit the Salles des croisades at Versailles, July 1844, by Prosper Lafaye. 1844. Canvas, 61 by 86.5 cm (Musés des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon).
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3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the group of the old man, woman and child.
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the group of Baudouin and the mounted crusaders.
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the group of women.
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6. Detail of Fig.1, showing a soldier assaulting an old man.
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7. Ptolemais delivered to Philippe-Auguste and Richard the Lionheart of England, 11th or 12th July 1191, by Merry-Joseph Blondel. 1840. Oil on canvas, 406 by 494 cm. (Grande Salle, Salles des croisades, Château de Versailles; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Detail of Fig.1, showing the reflection in the lid of the gold casket.
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9. Drawing for the Taking of Constantinople, by Eugène Delacroix. c.1839-40. Graphite on paper, 18.1 by 27.8 cm. (Département des Arts Graphiques, Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 9368).
Article
‘After the duel’: an early painting by Paul Delaroche
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1190-1195
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Bann, Stephen (Bann, Stephen)
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1. ‘Salon de 1835, “Assassinat du duc de Guise”, tableau de M. Paul Delaroche’, by Andrew Best Leloir and Charles Émile Wattier. 1835. Engraving, 12 by 21.5 cm. (From Le Magasin Pittoresque 22, 1835, p.169).
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2. After the duel, by Paul Delaroche, 1825. Oil on canvas, 66 by 82 cm. (Private collection).
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3. Duel after the masquerade, by Jean-Léon Gérôme. 1857–59 (third version). Oil on canvas, 39.1 by 56.3 cm. (The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore).
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4. St Bartholomew scene, by R.J. Bingham after Paul Delaroche. 1857– 58. Albumen print. (From Oeuvre de Paul Delaroche, Paris 1858).
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5. A duel, by Pierre Roch Vigneron. 1829. Lithograph, 25 by 29 cm. (Private collection).
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6. Detail of St Vincent de Paul preaching to the court of Louis XIII on behalf of the abandoned children, by Zachee Prevost after Paul Delaroche. 1834 Salon. Engraving.
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7. The students of Baron Gros in 1820, by Louis Léopold Boilly, 1820. Black and white chalk on paper, 59.5 by 29.1 cm. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris; Alamy Stock photo).
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8. Study for the ‘Assassination of the duc de Guise’, by Paul Delaroche. c.1832 or before 1830. Pencil on paper, 13.5 by 24.2 cm. (Private collection).
Book Review
Die Kunst der Außenseiter: Ausstellungen und Künstlerkarrieren im absolutistischen Paris jenseits der Akademie der Akademie
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1167-1168
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Vogtherr, Christoph Martin (Vogtherr, Christoph Martin)
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Die Kunst der Außenseiter: Ausstellungen und Künstlerkarrieren im absolutistischen Paris jenseits der Akademie By Sarah Salomon. 408 pp. incl. 35 b. & w. ills. (Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2021), €42. ISBN 978–3–8353–3907–1. | :
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The missing piece of Jean- François Raffaëlli’s ‘The family of Jean-le-Boîteux’
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 824-828
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Rosenberg-Miller, Carmen (Rosenberg-Miller, Carmen)
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10. Place de la Concorde, by Edgar Degas. 1875. Oil on canvas. 78.4 by 117.5 cm. (The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; Bridgeman Images).
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5. Young Breton girl wearing clogs, by Jean-François Raffaëlli. 1877. Oil on canvas, 152 by 60 cm. (Private collection; photograph SVV Farrando).
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6. The family of Jean-le-Boîteux, peasants of Plougasnou, Finistère, by Jean-François Raffaëlli. Here dated to 1877. Oil on canvas, 190.5 by 154.3 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Scala Archives).
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7. Hans Burgkmair, by Jean-François Raffaëlli. c.1877. Plaster, 55 by 48 cm. (Private collection; photograph SVV Farrando).
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8. Caricature of Jean-François Raffaëlli’s The family of Jean-le-Boîteux (Le Journal amusant, 23rd June 1877, p.7; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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9. A figure from The family of Jean-le-Boîteux, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1st June 1877, p.557; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Article
The Lavoisiers by David: technical findings on portraiture at the brink of revolution
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 780-791
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Centeno, Silvia A. (Centeno, Silvia A.)
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Mahon, Dorothy (Mahon, Dorothy)
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Pullins, David (Pullins, David)
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1. Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, by Jacques-Louis David. 1788. Oil on canvas, 259.7 by 194.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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10. Chapeau à la Tarare, by A.-B. Duhamel Jean-Florent Defraine. 1787. Hand-coloured engraving, 17.9 by 19.9 cm. Detail of plate 2 from La Magasin des Modes Nouvelles 36 (10th November 1787). (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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10. Chapeau à la Tarare, by A.-B. Duhamel Jean-Florent Defraine. 1787. Hand-coloured engraving, 17.9 by 19.9 cm. Detail of plate 2 from La Magasin des Modes Nouvelles 36 (10th November 1787). (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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11. Marie-Antoinette and her children, by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1787. Oil on canvas, 275 by 216.5 cm. (Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles).
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12. Louis-Elisabeth de France and her son, by Adélaïde Labille- Guiard. 1788. Oil on canvas, 275 by 160 cm. (Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles).
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13. Detail of Salon of 1787, by Pietro Antoni Martini. 1787. Etching with engraving, 35.6 by 50.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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14. Alphonse Leroy, by Jacques-Louis David. 1783. Oil on canvas, 72 by 91 cm. (Musée Fabre, Montpellier).
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15. The Chabanel family, by Antoine Vestier. 1786. Oil on canvas, 165.3 by 220.5 cm. (Private collection).
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16. An architect and his family, by Marguerite Gérard. c.1788–89. Oil on panel, 30.5 by 24.1 cm. (Baltimore Museum of Art).
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17. The poorly defended rose, by Michel Garnier. 1789. Oil on canvas, 46.2 by 37.6. (Minneapolis Institute of Art).
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18. Experiments in respiration, by Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier. c.1790. Graphite, pen and ink on paper. (Private collection).
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2. Infra-red reflectogram (IRR) of Fig.1. (Department of Paintings Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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3. Combined elemental distribution map for lead (white) and mercury (red) obtained by macro X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF). (Department of Scientific Research, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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4. A line drawing, produced by tracing information obtained by IRR and XRF, suggesting the appearance of the portrait before J.-L. David made significant changes to the composition.
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5. Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1784. Oil on canvas, 155.5 by 130.3 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2021).
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6. Madame Élisabeth, by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. 1787. Oil on canvas, 146.7 by 155 cm. (Private collection).
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7. Sketch for Charles-Roger, Prince de Bauffremont, by Adélaide Labille-Guiard. 1789–91. Oil on canvas, 34 by 23 cm. (Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris).
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8. Baronne de Crussol Florensac, by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1785. Oil on canvas, 113.8 by 84 cm. (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse).
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9. Chapeau à la Basile, by A.-B. Duhamel Jean-Florent Defraine. 1787. Hand-coloured engraving, 18.2 by 10.2 cm. Detail of plate 3 from La Magasin des Modes Nouvelles 31 (20th September 1787). (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Article
From Athens to Constantinople: ‘The watchman’ by Alphonse Isambert
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 437-443
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Lee, Simon (Lee, Simon)
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1. Young Greeks forcing cocks to fight, by Jean-Leon Gérôme. 1846. Oil on canvas, 143 by 204 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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2. The departure of Ulysses, by Alphonse Isambert. 1846. Oil on canvas, 32 by 40.5 cm. (Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Scala).
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3. Artists at ‘Le Chalet’, 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, by Gustave Le Gray. Jean-Léon Gérôme is on the far right. Salt-print photograph, 10.9 by 139 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris;   RMN-Grand Palais; photograph Hervé Lewandowski).
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4. The watchman, by Alphonse Isambert. 1867. Oil on board, 51.7 by 40 cm. (Private collection).
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5. Arab greeting, by Alexandre Evariste Fragonard after Godefroy Engelmann. 1819. Lithograph, page 67 by 50.3 cm. (From L.N.P.A. Forbin: Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818, Paris 1819).
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6. Detail of View of Hounkiar-Iskelessi, Echelle du Grande Seigneur, by Antoine Ignace Melling. 1819. Copper engraving, plate size 73.66 by 50.8 cm. (From A.I. Melling, C. Lacretelle, J.D. Barbié de Bocage et al.: Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore (d’après les dessins de Mr Antoine Ignace Melling dessinateur et architecte de la Sultane Hadigé sa soeur), Paris 1819, II, pl.35; Alamy).
Book Review
Der Salon und die Pariser Kunstszene unter Napoleon I.: Kunstpolitik, Künstlerische Strategien, Internationale Resonanzen, and London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780–1820
07/2020 | 1408 | 162
Pages: 624-625
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Vogtherr, Christoph Martin (Vogtherr, Christoph Martin)
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Der Salon und die Pariser Kunstszene unter Napoleon I.: Kunstpolitik, Künstlerische Strategien, Internationale Resonanzen By Eva Knels. 424 pp. incl. 10 col. + 45 b. & w. ills. (Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zurich and New York, 2019), £80. ISBN 978–3–487–15774–0. | :
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London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780–1820 Edited by Susanna Avery-Quash and Christian Huemer. 304 pp. incl. 70 col. + 17 b. & w. ills. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2019), £45. ISBN 978–1–60606–595–2. | :
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1. Vue du Salon de l’an IX, by Antoine Maxime Monsaldy and Simon Pierre Devisme. 1801. Etching, 21.4 by 25.1 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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