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Reflecting on the Rococo: Lancret and Boucher

Elise Goodman

Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 96–102.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2006-016

Published: 01 April 2007

...Elise Goodman Mary Tavener Holmes, Nicolas Lancret: Dance before a Fountain . Getty Museum Studies on Art (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006). Pp. 129. 93 ills. $19.50 paper. ISBN 0-89236-832-2 Melissa Hyde, Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics (Los Angeles...

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Collections Curieuses: The Aesthetics of Curiosity and Elite Lifestyle in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Bettina Dietz, Thomas Nutz

Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 44–75.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-29-3-44

Published: 01 September 2005

... Dutch and Flem- ish masters like Rubens, Van Dyck, Wouwerman, Berchem, and Back- huysen became desirable, followed by the French painters Poussin, Wat- teau, and Boucher.19 Big collectors, like the ﬁ nancier Augustin Blondel de Gagny, could possess several hundred masterpieces, while the collection...

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Enlightened “Museums of Images” or Decorative Displays? Elizabeth Seymour Percy and the Eighteenth-Century Print Room

Louise Voll Box

Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 135–157.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-9273027

Published: 01 September 2021

... scaffolding being built for paperhangers at Syon. 48 Was this preparation for a print room? “To-do” lists in the duchess's 1772 diary include “my Bouchers to be pasted” and a comment to “place my Bouchers.” 49 Prints after François Boucher (1703–70) featured in the print room at Castletown (Tillyard...

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The Demanding Pleasures of Coupling

Rowan Rose Boyson

Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 154–157.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-1548072

Published: 01 April 2012

... documents of Paris’s erotic theaters. The two strongest chapters, which appear to constitute the intellec- tual heart of the book, are chapter 4,“The Esthetics of Pleasure,” dealing with Jean-Baptiste Du Bos’s Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture (1719) and Boucher’s rosy girls...

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Matters of Style in the French Eighteenth Century

Giulia Pacini

Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 148–152.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2007-040

Published: 01 January 2009

... that could touch, rally, control, and unify their audience. Matters of Style in the French Eighteenth Century     151 The problem, according to these writers, was that modern, worldly paint- ers and beaux esprits such as Boucher and Marivaux had excessively frivolous, theatrical...

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Books Received

Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 115–126.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-33-2-115

Published: 01 April 2009

.... ISBN 080-209-8886. $35 paper. ISBN 080-209-3531 Hebron, Stephen. The Romantics and the British Landscape (London: British Library, 2006). Pp. ix + 180. 74 ills. $45. ISBN 0-7123-0676-5 Hedley, Jo. François Boucher: Seductive Visions (London: The Wallace Collection, 2004). Pp. 224. 50...

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Suzanne Simonin. La Religieuse de Diderot (1966)

Jacques Rivette

Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 64.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-25-1-64

Published: 01 January 2001

..., écrit à la date de janvier 1747: Dans le courant de l’année dernière on a imaginé, à Paris, des joujoux qu’on appelle pantins Il y en a eu de peintes par de bons peintres, entre autres par M. Boucher, un des plus fameux de l’Académie, et qui se...

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