Études Sur L'École Française (1831-1852) - Peinture Et Sculpture - Par Gustave Planche - Tome Premier (Deuxième)

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/3763

Author

Gustave Planche

Imprint

Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs Rue Vivienne, 2 Bis, 1855 L'Auteur et les Éditeurs se réservent tous droits de traduction et de reproduction.

Physical Description

2 vols.; 174 mm. (Duodecimo.)

General Note

Vol. I: [4], 360 p. - Vol. II: [4], 332 p.

Vol. I: [Half-t., t.p.] - Introduction - [Text] - Table Des Matières; [colophon]. - Vol. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text] - Table Des Matières; [colophon].

Responsibility Note

The printer is named on the title-page versos and in the colophons: 'Paris. - Typ. De Mme Ve Dondey-Dupré, Rue Saint-Louis, 46.'

References

P. Grate, Deux critiques de l'art de l'époque romantique: Gustave Planche et Théophile Thoré (1959).

Summary Note

The texts are revised versions of Planche's salon reviews. The first volume describes the salons of 1831, 1833, 1834, 1836; the second, those of 1836, 1837, 1838, 1840, 1846, 1847, 1852. At first Planche praised such Romantic artists as Delacroix. He later became a fierce critic of Courbet's 'realism'.

Provenance

Purchased for RA Library in 1879 (see RA Annual Report for 1879, p. 48).

Subject

Painting - Paintings - Sculpture - Exhibitions (events) - France - Paris - History - 19th century
Art criticism - France - 19th century