Nineteenth-century French Paintings in the Ashmolean MuseumAuthor(s): Jon Whiteley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Modern Art Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Modern Art Press\nISBN-13: 9781916347427, 978-1916347427\nSynopsis\nA fully illustrated, comprehensive, and scholarly catalogue of the paintings in the Ashmolean Museums collection by French artists born between 1775 and 1875 The only complete catalogue of French paintings of the period in the Ashmolean Museum, this comprehensive and scholarly study explores their rich collection of nineteenth-century French art. Continuing a convention set by earlier Ashmolean catalogues that mirrors the concept of the long nineteenth century, the book defines nineteenth-century French artists as those born between 1775 and 1875. Stretching into the twentieth century, it covers a fascinating range of paintings including works by Louis-Lopold Boilly, Camille, Lucien, and Fe?lix Pissarro, Henri Fantin-Latour, douard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Ps