Eighteenth-century French Drawings in New York Collections

This volume strikes a balance between a broad representation of the acknowledged masters of the period--Watteau, Boucher, Natoire, Fragonard, Robert, Greuze--and talented but lesser-known artists, including Doyen, Drouais, and Isabey. The one hundred sheets included, many of them previously unpublished, present a broad range of subjects--from genre, still life, and portraiture to studies for history painting--and are drawn from the holdings of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum (Smithsonian Institution), and twenty-seven private collections.

[This book was originally published in 1999 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]