Portrait of a Lady: Peintures et photographies américaines en France, 1870-1915

Portrait of a Lady: Peintures et photographies américaines en France, 1870-1915

Portrait of a Lady: Peintures et photographies américaines en France, 1870-1915

Portrait of a Lady: Peintures et photographies américaines en France, 1870-1915

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Overview

The Gilded Age of the United States—a time of dazzling prosperity and decorative opulence at the close of the nineteenth century —inspired an equally extravagant artistic outpouring, particularly in portraiture of high-society women. Depicting women dressed in lush ball gowns, with regal bearing and beguiling expressions, these portraits were acquired in large numbers by the French government of the era. Paintings by celebrated American artists such as John White Alexander, Thomas Eakins, William T. Dannat, and John Singer Sargent and photographs taken by Gertrude Käsebier, George Henry Seeley, Edward Steichen, and Clarence H. White remain in French public collections today, and they are the subject of the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny exhibition Portrait of a Lady. This accompanying volume, with texts in both English and French, includes eighty full-color reproductions of these portraits and provides critical insight to the varied representations of femininity in art.

Portrait of a Lady brings a new perspective to the Gilded Age: a period of fruitful exchange between French and American artists, between painting and photography, between tradition and avant-garde—all linked to the myth of “woman,” a myth that is both eternal and constantly changing.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780932171559
Publisher: Terra Foundation for American Art
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Pages: 152
Product dimensions: 8.90(w) x 11.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Vanessa Lecomte is assistant curator at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny where she participated in the organization of numerous exhibitions including “Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880,” “Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885–1915,” “Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea” and “A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918–1939.” She has also contributed to several exhibition catalogues on American art.



Vanessa Lecomte is assistant curator at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny where she participated in the organization of numerous exhibitions including “Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880,” “Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885–1915,” “Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea” and “A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918–1939.” She has also contributed to several exhibition catalogues on American art.



Vanessa Lecomte is assistant curator at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny where she participated in the organization of numerous exhibitions including “Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880,” “Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885–1915,” “Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea” and “A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918–1939.” She has also contributed to several exhibition catalogues on American art.



Vanessa Lecomte is assistant curator at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny where she participated in the organization of numerous exhibitions including “Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880,” “Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885–1915,” “Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea” and “A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918–1939.” She has also contributed to several exhibition catalogues on American art.

Table of Contents

Fashioning the Translatlantic Woman
Sarah Burns
The American Woman, the Painter, and the Curator
Olivier Meslay
Between the Lines
Vanessa Lecomte
Biographies of Artists in the Exhibition
 
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