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Title: French Art
Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

Author: W. C. Brownell

Release Date: December 6, 2005 [EBook #17244]

Language: English

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FRENCH ART

_CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
AND SCULPTURE_

BY
W.C. BROWNELL

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1892

Copyright, 1892, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

TO AUGUSTE RODIN

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. Classic Painting, 1
I. Character and origin.
II. Claude and Poussin.
III. Lebrun and Lesueur.
IV. Louis Quinze.
V. Greuze and Chardin.
VI. David, Ingres, and Prudhon.

II. Romantic Painting, 47
I. Romanticism.
II. Gericault and Delacroix.
III. The Fontainebleau Group.
IV. The Academic Painters.
V. Couture, Puvis de Chavannes, and Regnault.

III. Realistic Painting, 89
I. Realism.
II. Courbet and Bastien-Lepage.
III. The Landscape Painters; Fromentin and Guillaumet.
IV. Historical and Portrait Painters.
V. Baudry, Delaunay, Bonvin, Vollon, Gervex,
Duez, Roll, L'Hermitte, Lerolle, Beraud,
The Illustrators.
VI. Manet and Monet.
VII. Impressionism; Degas.
VIII. The Outlook.

IV. Classic Sculpture, 139
I. Claux Sluters.
II. Jean Goujon.
III. Style.
IV. Clodion, Pradier, and Etex.
V. Houdon, David d'Angers, and Rude.
VI. Carpeaux and Barye.

V. Academic Sculpture, 165

I. Its Italianate Character.
II. Chapu.
III. Dubois.
IV. Saint-Marceaux and Mercie.
V. Tyranny of Style.
VI. Falguiere, Barrias, Delaplanche, and Le Feuvre.
VII. Fremiet.
VIII. The Institute School in General.

VI. The New Mov