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Children of the gilded era: portraits by Sargent, Renoir, Cassatt and their contemporaries
Children of the Gilded Portraits by Sargent, Renoir, Cassatt, and their Contemporaries presents a compelling selection of children's portraits painted at the end of the nineteenth century - an age of Mark Twain, Henry James and Edith Wharton. The featured paintings by John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Lawrence Ahna-Tadema, Edgar Degas, and James McNeill Whistler, some of the leading artists of this pivotal period in the histories of the United States and Europe, offer an idyllic view of yesterday's childhood.
Well-known examples such as John Singer Sargent's delightful Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, with its enchanting garden scene of Polly and Dolly, daughters of the artist Frederick Barnard, lighting paper lanterns, or the collective family groups such as The Artist's Family by the French Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir, showing his wife and children with their nurse, are featured alongside lesser-known, but equally endearing, works sharing both the formal and informal moments of a bygone age.
Well-known examples such as John Singer Sargent's delightful Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, with its enchanting garden scene of Polly and Dolly, daughters of the artist Frederick Barnard, lighting paper lanterns, or the collective family groups such as The Artist's Family by the French Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir, showing his wife and children with their nurse, are featured alongside lesser-known, but equally endearing, works sharing both the formal and informal moments of a bygone age.
96 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2004
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August 21, 2023
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April 8, 2022
a very nice quality little book of paintings of children in the late 19th century. And readable text, always a plus in a art book (many of which are incomprehensible for some reason I've never been able to figure)
March 25, 2016
Beautiful depiction of portraits of children in the late 19th and early 20th century.
However, since I picked up this book to do research on Mary Cassat, I was disappointed. Despite being mentioned in the TITLE of the book, only ONE portrait by Ms. Cassat appears in the book and it's on the page facing the table of contents with no caption--you have to look in the credits at the back of the book. A wasted opportunity to present a renowned female artist.
However, since I picked up this book to do research on Mary Cassat, I was disappointed. Despite being mentioned in the TITLE of the book, only ONE portrait by Ms. Cassat appears in the book and it's on the page facing the table of contents with no caption--you have to look in the credits at the back of the book. A wasted opportunity to present a renowned female artist.
November 28, 2021
Excellent small-format book. Barbara Gallati brought together an excellent set of representative paintings of children by Guilded Age painters (mostly American and British) and provided a very nice narration split into several thematic sections. Pictures are shown full-page, in a nice color, on a good paper. Despite a smaller book format, the plates are still large enough to enjoy. It connects several well-known painters through a common topic and also used an opportunity to show some less known ones.
July 27, 2009
I love portraits of children, which always evoke a strong feeling of family and nostalgia in me. As a result, I had to like this book in spite of its dry prose because of its abundance of 19th-and-early-20th-century portraits of children. I learned from the way it outlined the changing conceptions of childhood and family during the Gilded Age, but without the captivating pictures, the book would be dull. Isn't that the point?
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