19th Century European Painting

This established survey of 19th Century European Painting from David through Czanne includes new chapters with fifteen new illustrations on four notable women artists - Angela Kauffmann, Elizabeth Vige-Lebrun, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt. The focus of 19th Century European Painting remains on the important artists and movements of the period with chapters on each artist's life and work, characteristics of style, and the relationship of the artistic movements to historical and intellectual currents of the time. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Academics and Salon Painters, and Impressionism are covered and the following artists receive substantial monographic treatment: David and his followers, Goya, Ingres, Gricault, Delacroix, Corot, Courbet, Millet and the Barbizon painters, Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, and Czanne.