French eighteenth-century genre painting.(Exhibition Reviews)

From: Apollo | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The organisers of 'The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting' have assembled some superb eighteenth-century French paintings. What is more, the exhibition's title is hot misleading. In its Ottawa manifestation, each of the three named artists has more or Less a room devoted to his works; including, in the case of Watteau, such well-known paintings as Mezzetin (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and Iris (The dance) (Gemaldegalerie, Berlin); in the case of Chardin, unsurprisingly, Ottawa's own Return from the market and Governess, as well ...

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