Volume 23, Number 4 · March 18, 1976
The Revival of Official Art
By Charles Rosen, Henri Zerner
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Le Musée du Luxembourg en 1874: Peintures November 18, 1974, by Geneviève Lacambre, with Jacqueline de Rohan-Chabot
Catalogue of the exhibition at the Grand-Palais, Paris May 31 to
Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 189, 233 ill. pp., 25F
The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851
by T.J. Clark
New York Graphic Society, 224 pp., $17.50
Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the Second French Republic, 1848-1851
by T.J. Clark
New York Graphic Society, 190 pp., $17.50
Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century
by Albert Boime
Phaidon Press, 344, 161 illus. pp., $30.00
William-Adolphe Bouguereau December 13, 1974 to February 2, 1975, by Robert Isaacson
Catalogue of the exhibition at The New York Cultural Center,
The New York Cultural Center, 51 pp., $4.00
French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution Delacroix" at the Grand-Palais, Paris, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975
Catalogue of the exhibition "French Painting from David to
Wayne State University Press, 712 pp., $14.95
In 1974, the centenary of the first Impressionist exhibition, the National Museums of France celebrated the occasion in Paris by a small, select show of Impressionists and their friends—a show which also came to New York—and a vast presentation of the official art of their time, the pictures that could be seen in 1874 in the Palais du Luxembourg, the official museum of modern art from 1818 until 1937.
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