The age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard : masterpieces of French genre painting / Colin b. Bailey, Philip Conisbee, Thomas W. Gaehtgens ; edited by Colin B. Bailey

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Author: Bailey, Colin B; Conisbee, Philip; Gaehtgens, Thomas W. 1940-; National Gallery of Canada; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Gemäldegalerie (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 6-Sept. 7, 2003, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Oct. 12, 2003-Jan. 11, 2004, and the Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Feb. 8-May 9, 2004.
Contents: Surveying genre in eighteenth-century French painting / Colin B. Bailey -- The theory of French genre painting and its European context / Barbara Gaehtgens -- "Sorti de son genre" : genre painting and boundary crossing at the end of the Ancien Régime / Martin Schieder -- Genre paintings in eighteenth-century collections / Thomas W. Gaehtgens -- Child's play / Katie Scott -- Exoticism and genre painting in eighteenth-century France / Marianne Roland Michel

2003

18th century

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