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List of illustrations

  • The Salon of 1787
  • Staircase of the Salon
  • Painting mocked by Envy, Stupidity, and Drunkeness
  • A Critic at the Salon of 1753
  • La Font de Saint-Yenne
  • La Font de Saint-Yenne
  • The Rape of Europa
  • The Salon of 1765
  • The Salon of 1699
  • Saint Bruno at Prayer
  • The Foire Saint-Germain
  • Le Théâtre de la foire
  • Actors
  • Ecriteaux at a fair theater
  • La Perspective
  • The Shepherds (Pastorale)
  • The Departure of the Italian Comedians
  • The Scene of the Carriages
  • The Trojan Horse
  • Design for Corner of Ceiling Decoration
  • Design with Grotesques
  • Decorative motifs
  • Study for Decorative Detail
  • The Monkeys of Mars
  • The Children of Momus
  • The Swing
  • L' Amour mal accompagné
  • Fêtes Vénitiennes
  • La Cascade
  • The Garden of Love
  • Pilgrimage to Cythera
  • Voulez-vous triompher des Belles?
  • The Rest of Diana
  • Rape of Europa
  • The Continence of Scipio
  • Procession of the Holy Sacrament
  • Exposition de la jeunesse, place Dauphine, le jour de la petite Fête-Dieu
  • Musical Instruments and Parrot
  • Eight Children Playing with a Goat
  • White Dog with Dead Bustard
  • The Charlatan
  • The Resurrection
  • La Machine aréostatique
  • Changez-moi ces têtes
  • Two Widows of an Indian Officer
  • Le Tombeau de Marlborough
  • Bizarre Antlers of a Stag taken by the King on 3 July, 1741
  • The Sleep of Rinaldo
  • The Morning Toilette
  • The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
  • A Storm and a Shipwreck
  • Madame de Pompadour
  • Galerie d' Apollon
  • View of the Port of Bordeaux from Château-Trompette
  • Saint Augustine disputing with the Donatists
  • The Ray
  • The House of Cards
  • Louis de Silvestre
  • The Reading of the Bible
  • The Blind Man Deceived
  • The Village Bride
  • Filial Piety (The Paralytic)
  • Head of a bald man
  • A Girl with a Dead Canary
  • Augustus Closing the Doors of the Temple of Janus
  • The Justice of Trajan
  • Monument to Louis XV
  • Peacefulness under Government
  • The Happy Citizen
  • Marcus Aurelius Distributing Food and Medicine
  • Trajan Giving Audience
  • The Father's Curse
  • The Punished Son
  • Roman Charity
  • Aegina Visited by Jupiter
  • Septimius Severus and Caracalla
  • Septimus Severus and Caracalla, study
  • Death of Germanicus
  • The Testament of Eudamidus
  • High Priest Corésus and Callirhoé
  • Happy Accidents of the Swing
  • Ste. Geneviève Interceding for the Plague-Stricken
  • Louis XVI Receiving the Homage of the Chevaliers of the Order of the Holy Spirit at Reims
  • Lover Crowning his Mistress
  • The Father's Curse
  • The Punished Son
  • Madame du Barry as Muse
  • Saint Louis Washing the Feet of the Poor
  • The Last Communion of Saint Louis
  • Continence of Bayard
  • The Death of Doguesclin
  • Admiral Coligny Confronts his Asassins
  • President Molé Manhandled by Insurgents
  • The Intervention of the Sabine Women
  • Death of Leonardo da Vinci
  • Belisarius
  • Alcibiades Receiving Instructions from Socrates
  • Belisarius Receiving Hospitality
  • The Funeral of Militiades
  • Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin on behalf of the Plague-Stricken
  • Count Stanislas Potocki
  • Belisarius Begging for Alms
  • Belisarius Begging for Alms
  • Belisarius, study
  • Belisarius, study
  • Andromache's Mourning Hector
  • Horatius the Elder Defending his Son
  • Oath of the Horatii
  • View of the Salon of 1785
  • Manlius Torquatus Condemning his Son to Death
  • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze)
  • Marius, prisoner at Minturnae
  • The Oath of the Horatii, study
  • The Oath of Brutus
  • The Oath of the Horatii, study
  • Oath of the Horatii
  • The Death of Alcestis
  • Death of Socrates
  • Paris and Helen
  • The Death of Socrates
  • Hector Censuring Helen and Paris
  • Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
  • The Theatre of Jean-Baptiste Nicolet in the Foire St. Ovide
  • The Oath of the Tennis Court
  • Death of Marat
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AMBITIOUS painting most conspicuously entered the lives of eighteenth-century Parisians in the Salon exhibitions mounted by the Academy of Painting and Sculpture...
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THE most obvious point of reference for an understanding of the young Academy of Painting would be to look at its literary and linguistic counterpart, Richelieu’s forty immortals in the Académie française...
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In the notarial records of eighteenth-century Paris, by far the most common category of picture in the inventories of all classes is that of devotional images, the larger part of these being simple depictions of Christ, the Virgin, and various saints...
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THE intent of the preceding two chapters has been to contrast two sectors of culture in early eighteenth-century Paris that could reasonably be described as public...
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THE presence of the new Salon audience presented such an abiding problem for those in authority over French art because of a fundamental contradiction at the heart of academic doctrine: a universalizing conception of artistic value had to be mapped onto a divisive social hierarchy...
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IT has been one of the preoccupations of this book that our received picture of the Academy as a monolithic, exclusionary body has been largely a myth...
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BY 1770, it was apparent that the Lenormand clan had succeeded all too well in cementing possession of the Bâtiments to the dynastic ambitions of the bourgeois royal favorite...
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To judge from David’s planning for the Salon of 1783, the “modesty” discerned by the author of Mémoires secrets seems closer to the mark than does any desire to reach over the heads of his superiors to some radicalized public...
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THE initial agenda of this book was to map the expanding public sphere that surrounded French painting in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a sphere that was at once a discursive formation and a site of actual social practice...
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