Jacquot, Dominique et al: L'Apothéose du geste : L'Esquisse Peinte au siècle de Boucher et Fragonard. Exhibition: Strasbourg, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2003. 255pp with 62 colour plates, 79 colour and 12 monochrome illustrations. Cloth. 28.8x24.8cms. Over a hundred French 18th century preparatory oil-sketches, selected from French public collections for their beauty, are presented and the central importance of the spontaneous gesture and lively brushstrokes, in the practise and theory of painting is discussed. Text in French.
Over a hundred French 18th century preparatory oil-sketches, selected from French public collections for their beauty, are presented and the central importance of the spontaneous gesture and lively brushstrokes, in the practise and theory of painting is discussed. Text in French