Master of genre painting from Ancien Régime to Restoration

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LEBRUN JOUVE (Claudine) [Foreword by Pedro Corrêa do Lago.] Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (1755-1830) Arthena. Deauville, 2003, publisher's binding in red linen cardboard under illustrated dust jacket, in-4°, 33 x 25 cm, 448 pages with 513 illustrations, 76 in color. This work illuminates the career of a versatile painter who, from the Ancien Régime to the Restoration, understood how to initiate the aesthetic upheavals of the 19th century. Genre painters of the late 18th century, often still relegated to the category of secondary painters, have scarcely found their place in the art history of this period. A monograph on one of their most interesting representatives, Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, fills a gap while providing substantive knowledge of a prolific artist who worked for the King, the Emperor, the Brazilian court, as well as for publishers and curious minds of his time. Fine copy. No shipping outside the European Union.