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Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914
by Ms. Tamar Garb (Author) – Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Yale University Press (September 26, 2007)
The meaning of a painted portrait and even its subject may be far more complex than
expected, Tamar Garb reveals in this book. She charts for the first time the history
of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to
its demise in the early twentieth century, showing how these paintings illuminate
evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the
century.
The author builds the discussion around six canonic works by Ingres, Manet, Cassatt,
Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse, beginning with Ingres’s idealized portrait
of Mme de Sennones and ending with Matisse’s elegiac last portrait of his
wife. During the hundred years that separate these works, the female portrait
went from being the ideal genre for the expression of painting’s capacity
to describe and embellish “nature,” to the prime locus of its refusal
to do so. Picasso’s Cubism, and specifically Ma Jolie, provides the fulcrum
of this shift.
Renoir's Women by Ann Dumas, John Collins – Hardcover: 127 pages
Publisher: Merrell (September 2005)
Reader Review: I purchased this book after viewing this exhibition and
i must say it includes alot of paintings that were not in the exhibit and all
that were. The reproductions are beautiful, the text is very informative, however,
i wish some of the images were larger. Nonetheless, definately a incredible addition
to my collection of art books. Thanks!
 Degas
Portraits by Edgar Degas (Editor), Marianne Karabelnik (Editor), Felix
Baumann (Editor) – Hardcover, 372 pages (March 1995) Merrell Holerton Publishers
Portraiture in Paris Around 1800: Cooper Penrose by Jacques-Louis David
by Philippe Bordes – Paperback: 80 pages Publisher: Timken Museum of Art
(June 1, 2004)
Focusing on portrait painting in Paris during the Consulate (November 1799 to
May 1804), this book explores the contextual nexus in which the Portrait of Cooper
Penrose was created. Philippe Bordes considers how this picture relates to other
works painted by David during this period and to portraits painted by the artist's
contemporaries, and also explores the political and social consequences of David's
attitude to Bonaparte, the artist's relations with his clients, and the state
of his family finances during this period.
This investigation of the Portrait of Cooper Penrose constitutes the most complete
analysis of the picture ever undetaken. Bordes proposes that Penrose selected
David as his portraitist not only because of his international renown as an artist,
but also because of his reputation as a Revolutionary.
Facing the Public: Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution
by Anthony Halliday – Hardcover, 280 pages (February 2000) Manchester
Univ Press
Facing the Public: Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution
by Anthony Halliday – Paperback, 280 pages (February 2000) Manchester
Univ Press
Emphasizing the social and theoretical framework of portrait production in the 1790s, the author argues that the history of
art in the French Revolution looks significantly different from the view that arises from the study of public narrative art.
He contends that the Revolution did not bring about the decline of artistic production, it simply changed the subjects of
the production.
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The French Portrait: 1550-1850
by Alan Wintermute – Hardcover (June 1996) University of Washington
Press
This book is divided into two parts. The first section is an
historical survey of the development of French portraiture tracing
its roots back to Jean Fouquet and his gothic forebears and
thence following its progress through the Renaissance onto the
triumphs of the Rococo, culminating with the neo-classical masterpieces
of David and Ingres. This study is the first such survey to
have been made available to the English-speaking public for
many years. It is written to serve both as an accessible introduction
to this fascinating genre and as a useful work of reference
on the subject. It is illustrated with over seventy-five color
plates. This volume was published to accompany an exhibition
devoted to French portraiture which was held at Colnaghi's New
York galleries. The full-page plates illustrate the exhibited
works. They are then discussed in the brief catalogue entries
which form the second part of this publication.
Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age by Colin B. Bailey, Linda Nochlin,
Anne Distel, Auguste Renoir – Hardcover, 344 pages Yale Univ Press, 1997
This sumptuously illustrated book is the first devoted exclusively
to Renoir`s portraiture, and in it are gathered the finest examples
of the portraits he painted during each period of his prolific
career. In these delightful paintings Renoir creates uniquely
endearing and enduring images of pleasure, comfort, and prosperity.
 
The Portraits of Madame de Pompadour: Celebrating the Femme Savante (The
Discovery Series) by Elise Goodman – Hardcover, 208 pages Publisher: University
of California Press – 1st edition (March 2, 2000)
The femme savante portraits of Mme de Pompadour (1721-1764),
the beautiful and cultivated woman who became the official mistress
of Louis XV, are the focus of Elise Goodman's innovative study.
The portraits are generally admired as the most glamorous, celebrated
likenesses of a woman created during the French Enlightenment,
and Goodman's book is the first to fully examine them in the
context of the highly saturated feminist atmosphere that existed
at the time.
The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth-Century France
by Heather McPherson – Hardcover: 308 pages Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (February 26, 2001)
The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth-Century France examines the evolution of portraiture after the advent of photography. Heather
McPherson focuses on the portrait as a contested site of representation and the diverse strategies that artists deployed to
revitalize the portrait during the second half of the nineteenth century, when the genre was threatened with obsolescence by
the ubiquitous photographic image. By considering portraiture within the broader cultural matrix of history, biography, artistic
and literary crosscurrents, and shifts in the production and consumption of images, McPherson deftly situates the modern portrait
at the epicenter of nineteenth-century visual culture.
 Masterpieces
from Versailles: Three Centuries of French Portraiture
by Alden R Gordon – Unknown Binding: 127 pages Publisher: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Office (1983)
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