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This lavishly illustrated book, the first devoted to Vallayer-Coster in over 30 years, presents a stunning array of the artist's still-life works, many of which have never before been reproduced in color. Recently rediscovered works, including three royal portraits from the collection of Versailles and a hitherto unknown pastel of Marie Antoinette, are published here for the first time. The authors draw on the most current research to examine Vallayer-Coster's relationship with landscape painter Joseph Vernet; her response to her immediate predecessor, still-life painter Jean-Simeon Chardin; her role with contemporary collectors of her art; and her place in the larger context of the eighteenth-century art world. The book also includes new archival an
Anne Vallayer-Coster : Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette
by Edited by Eik Kahng and Marianne Roland Michel; With contributions by Colin B. BFormat: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2002-06-10
Publisher(s): Dallas Museum of Art
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Summary
Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818) was one of the most talented still-life painters of the French school. Her exquisite paintings, today located in some of the world's finest museums, were admired and collected by many of her contemporaries, including Marie Antoinette, who became the artist's most important patron.
Table of Contents
| Director's Foreword and Acknowledgments | p. 8 |
| Introduction | p. 10 |
| Vallayer in Her Time | p. 13 |
| Vallayer-Coster/Chardin | p. 39 |
| A Still-Life Painter and Her Patrons: Collecting Vallayer-Coster, 1770-1789 | p. 59 |
| Women and the Visual Arts in the Age of Marie-Antoinette | p. 75 |
| The Painting Technique of Anne Vallayer-Coster: Searching for the Origins of Style | p. 95 |
| Color Plates of Works Exhibited | p. 115 |
| Catalogue | p. 196 |
| The Portraits of Mesdames de France, the Aunts of Louis XVI, by Anne Vallayer-Coster | p. 226 |
| Abbreviated References | p. 232 |
| Index | p. 245 |
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