Jeanne (Spring)

By the late 1870s and 1880s, a growing number of women were actively engaged in public life; as a result, they wore new styles of clothing appropriate for outings in the city and suburbs. Whether viewing paintings in the Musée du Louvre, singing in a Parisian church, or strolling on the island of La Grande Jatte, they appeared in daytime ensembles that, while often luxurious, tended to be...

~Drawing has played a primary role in reproductive technologies for centuries: before the advent of photography, an act of drawing was required to reproduce a work of art, whether a painting, sculpture, or a monument of architecture. Over the course of its history, the term “reproduction” has encompassed a wide array of material conditions and...

James McCabe, the American visitor, was convinced that Louis Napoleon had enacted Meryon’s “Loi Solaire.” His account of Second Empire Paris is especially revealing when placed alongside Henry Tuckerman’s. Tuckerman saw through the sheen of imperial splendor to the authoritarian power it disguised....