From the Classicism of Jacques-Louis David to the Realism of Courbet and the Early Impressionism of Renoir, this book outlines the course taken by painting and sculpture in Europe during the 19th century. Faced with the untidy sprawl of individualism which followed the French Revolution and threw up isolated geniuses like Goya, the author nevertheless charts the currents in what was predominantly a century of Naturalism and also - whilst artists were increasingly preoccupied with "the inner man" - of great landscape-painting when Friedrich, Corot and the Impressionists proper added light and atmosphere to the former achievements of the great Dutch masters.
- ISBN10 0300053215
- ISBN13 9780300053210
- Publish Date 25 November 1992 (first published January 1971)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 May 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 484
- Language English