Facing the Public: Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution by Tony Halliday, Anthony Halliday
Facing the Public: Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution

Tony Halliday, Anthony Halliday

Barber Institute's Critical Perspectives in Art History (Hardcover)

Facing the Public: Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution

Tony Halliday, Anthony Halliday

280 pages hardcover

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Portraits were the most widely commissioned paintings in 18th-century France, but most portraits were produced for private consumption, and were therefore seen as inferior to art designed for public exhibition. The French Revolution endowed privat...

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