Anne Vallayer-Coster : Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette
, by Edited by Eik Kahng and Marianne Roland Michel; With contributions by Colin B. B- ISBN: 9780300093292 | 0300093292
- Cover: Trade Book
- Copyright: 6/10/2002
This lavishly illustrated book, the first devoted to Vallayer-Coster in over 30 years, presents a stunning array of the artist's still-life works, many of which have never before been reproduced in color. Recently rediscovered works, including three royal portraits from the collection of Versailles and a hitherto unknown pastel of Marie Antoinette, are published here for the first time. The authors draw on the most current research to examine Vallayer-Coster's relationship with landscape painter Joseph Vernet; her response to her immediate predecessor, still-life painter Jean-Simeon Chardin; her role with contemporary collectors of her art; and her place in the larger context of the eighteenth-century art world. The book also includes new archival an