Memoirs of a 19th-century Arts Administrator

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CHENNEVIÈRES (Philippe de) Souvenirs d'un Directeur des Beaux-Arts. Arthena. Deauville, 2010. Publisher's hardcover binding with illustrated dust jacket. 28.5 x 22 cm. 662 pages with 92 illustrations, including 4 in color. Pagination: 110-117-104-159-119 pp. Chennevières offers insight into the mechanisms of 19th-century artistic life: the importance of the Salons, the system of official commissions, relations between artists and public authorities, the role of the Luxembourg Museum, the tastes of Napoleon III and Eugénie, the 1848 Revolution and artists' participation. The work contains numerous well-documented chapters with portraits of Gavarni, Bonnat, Delacroix, Ingres, Isabey, George Sand, and Sainte-Beuve. Fine copy.