The age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard : masterpieces of French genre painting /
Colin b. Bailey, Philip Conisbee, Thomas W. Gaehtgens ; edited by Colin B. Bailey.
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press in association with the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2003.
- 412 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 6-Sept. 7, 2003, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Oct. 12, 2003-Jan. 11, 2004, and the Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Feb. 8-May 9, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-398) and index.
Surveying genre in eighteenth-century French painting / Colin B. Bailey -- The theory of French genre painting and its European context / Barbara Gaehtgens -- "Sorti de son genre" : genre painting and boundary crossing at the end of the Ancien RgÌime / Martin Schieder -- Genre paintings in eighteenth-century collections / Thomas W. Gaehtgens -- Child's play / Katie Scott -- Exoticism and genre painting in eighteenth-century France / Marianne Roland Michel.