During the final decades of the ancien regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David, and others that together comprised l'Ecole Francoise, the French School. In this work, an eminent art historian discusses six of these collectors and the collections they assembled, showing that private patronage in this period was revitalized by this patriotic desire to collect contemporary art.
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During the final decades of the ancien regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David, and others that together comprised l'Ecole Francoise, the French School. In this work, an eminent art historian discusses six of these collectors and the collections they assembled, showing that private patronage in this period was revitalized by this patriotic desire to collect contemporary art.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. With illustrations in color and black & white, a bibliography and index. ix, 346 pages. 4to. Hardcover, in a dust jacket. Fine/Very Good.
