A Session of the Salon Jury (Une Séance du jury de peinture)

~Cassatt’s decision to take up residence in Paris in 1874 put an end to the romantic, nomadic life she had led for almost eight years (figure 37). At age thirty, she may have been unconsciously ready for a more...

~TWO SUGGESTIVE CARICATURES of the early 1880s show a dismayed passer-by recoiling from posters advertising comtemporary...

~The established consensus in contemporary culture about the value of exactitude and legibility played a central part in the making, interpreting and appreciation of painting. Indeed, this process was circular, a self-fulfilling prophecy. The modern mentality set great store by precision and the document; contemporary pictures scrupulously recorded the present...