Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780-1880

Baltimore: Penguin Books; Pelican History of Art Ser., 1960. Cloth, 288 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Translated from the German by R. H. Boothroyde. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. First American Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Foreword; 1. Introduction; PART 1. PAINTING. 2. Classicism in France. Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825); David's pupils and followers; Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823); Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867); 3. Classicism in Germany and Austria. The beginnings in the eighteenth century : Mengs and Carstens; The spread of classicism; 4. Landscape-painting during the Classical revival; 5. Classicism in other countries (the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Scandinavia); 6. German Romanticism and the Nazarenes. Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840); Friedrich's circle (Carus, Dahl, Kersting, and others); Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810); The Nazarenes; The Olivier Brothers; Romantic landscape-painting in Salzburg and Munich; 7. Francisco de Goya; 8. The French 'Romantiques'. The odore Ge ricault (1791-1824); Euge`ne Delacroix (1798-1863); Romantic painting around Delacroix; Romantic landscape-painting in France; The painters of Barbizon; Camille Corot (1796-1875); 9. Early Naturalism (Biedermeier painting). Ferdinand Georg Waldmu ller (1793-1865); The 'old Vienna' school; Danish Biedermeier; Biedermeier painting in Germany; Karl Blechen (1798-1840); 10. German Biedermeier Romanticism (Spitzweg, Schwind, Richter, Rethel, and others); 11. Late Romanticism and early Romanticism in other countries; 12. Realism in France. Gustave Courbet (1819-77); Honore Daumier (1808-79); Genre-painters, caricaturists, and illustrators of Daumier's time; Constantin Guys (1805-92); 13. Naturalism in Germany. Adolf von Menzel (1815-1903) Wilhelm Leibl and the Leibl group; 14. Under the sign of Realism; 15. 'Intellectual' painting in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Anselm Feuerbach (1829-80); Arnold Bo cklin (1827-1901); Hans von Mare es (1837-87); Puvis de Chavannes, Fantin-Latour, Carrie`re, and others; 16. French Impressionism. E douard Manet (1832-83); Impressionist landscape-painting in France (Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, etc.); Edgar Degas (1834-1917); Auguste Renoir (1841-1919); 17. The situation about 1880; PART 2. SCULPTURE. Introduction to Chapters 18-21; 18. The sculpture of the Classicist period. Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828); Antonio Canova (1757-1822); Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844); Johan Tobias Sergel (1740-1814); Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850); The spread of Classicism; 19. Sculpture in the days of Romanticism and Realism. Franc ois Rude (1784-1855); Ge ricault, Barye, Daumier, Dantan, and others; 20. Sculpture in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-75); The spread of naturalism; 21. The return to form. Adolf Hildebrand (1847-1921); Edgar Degas (1834-1917); Auguste Rodin (1840-1917).. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.