Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections

Аннотация

The Enlightenment in France was marked by progress and innovation in virtually every area of intellectual and artistic endeavor. Arranged chronologically and thematically, Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections traces the expansion of the Rococo style through the accomplishments of its most brilliant practitioners and through its gradual displacement by the more spartan Neoclassical idiom, which accelerated during the political upheaval of the.