Author: Dulau, Anne (editor)
Title: Boucher & Chardin, Masters of Modern Manners
Description: Glasgow, The University of Glasgow, 2008. Softcover. Brown and blue and Illus. wraps with white lettering; 144 pp. with 86 color and bw figures. The catalogue to accompany the exhibition held at The Wallace Collection, London and The Hunterian, Glasgow, in 2008. The book explores a new manner of French genre painting by comparing "Lady taking Tea" by Jean-Simeon Chardin and "Woman on a Daybed" by Francois Boucher. "This provides an opportunity to address undercurrent themes of social history such as the artists' attitudes to fashion, interior decoration and the consumption of tea -- a pastime influenced by new trade links with China." (back cover). VG (as new) .

Keywords: European Art ; French Genre Painting ; Chardin, Jean-Simeon ; Boucher, Francois ; ; Museum Exhibitions - European Art


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