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Item Number: 129394
Title: Genius & Grace: FRANCOIS BOUCHER and the Generation of 1700
Author: Clark, Alvin L. Jr
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780991262502
Description: Boston: The Horvitz Collection, 2014. 27cm., pbk., 151pp., 80 color plates. Exhibition held at The Cincinnati Art Museum. Includes: A. Clark, Jr., The Generation of 1700 - Draftsmen, Drawings, and Questions ; F. Joulie, Reflections on the Early Drawings of Boucher and His Contemporaries ; E. Bell, Charles Coypel and the Age of Eclecticism. Summary: Genius and Grace: François Boucher and the Generation of 1700 will feature over seventy master drawings from the Horvitz Collection, Boston—widely considered the preeminent collection of French art in the United States. The exhibition will feature works by a group of artists known as “The Generation of 1700.” This talented group of artists born in or around the year 1700, such as François Boucher, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Carle Vanloo, and their contemporaries, will be celebrated for their virtuoso compositions whose curvilinear elegance epitomizes the French grand manner. From Boucher’s sumptuous reclining female nude, to a rare, early pastel by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, to Director of the French Academy Charles Coypel’s mature self portrait—the works on view celebrate Dezallier d’Argenville’s comment of 1745: “A painter’s way of drawing is as distinctive as handwriting and more so than a writer’s style”.
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