Louis-François Bertin

Augustus John was briefly the rising star of British painting. He was a prodigy at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, and his reputation as a draughtsman is undiminished. He was held in high regard by those who saw him as an essentially British (or Celtic) bulwark against a tidal wave of continental modernism...

PAUL CÉZANNE RETURNED MANY TIMES to the image of his wife, Hortense Fiquet...

~PORTRAITS HAVE INVARIABLY LENT THEMSELVES to...

FANTIN-LATOUR has been the core of every chapter in this book so far. Courbet, Manet, and Degas have all been significant parts of the story, but it is in Fantin’s work that my key arguments have found their root. He has been my focus because his work’s engagement with group dynamics is the most deep and sustained, and because his painting’s best expose the...

The flâneur, the purposeful male stroller, was a principal performer in the theater of daily life in Paris in mid-century, if we judge by his importance in writings of the era. A journalist, writer, or illustrator, he looked about with the acute eye of a detective, sizing up persons and events with a clinical detachment as though natural events could tell him their own...