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To show off a rich collection of nineteenth-century French paintings and graphics, Chica-go's great museum fields an album with the famous yearly state-sponsored Parisian exhibition, the Salon, as its theme. Not all the works illustrated were actual Salon entries, but, curator Brettell maintains, all were produced ``within an aesthetic and institutional structure dominated by'' the Salon. What is indisputably shown, and well commented upon in periodic summary notes as well as notes upon individual artists and pictures, is the variety of styles and subjects the Salon displayed despite its reputation for stodginess. The art is presented chronologically, and its makers include Delacroix, Ingres, Corot, Gerome, Courbet, Degas, Daumier, Millet, Manet, Dore, Pissarro, Redon, Fantin-Latour, Moreau, and Puvis de Chavannes. The plates, including the monochrome drawings, are all in beautifully modulated color, the coup de grace of an altogether superior short catalog. Checklist. RO. 795.4'074 Painting, French Catalogs / Painting, Modern 19th century France Catalogs / Salons (Exhibition: Paris, France) Catalogs / Societe des artistes francais. Salon Catalogs / Painting Illinois Chicago Catalogs / Art Institute of Chicago Catalogs [CIP] 86-73030
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