An Outline of 19th Century European Painting: From David Through Cezanne (Icon Editions)

Harper & Row [Published date: 1987], Icon Editions, Volume I: Text only. Hard cover, 456 pp. [From front jacket flap]. This knowledgeable survey consists of concise monographic chapters on the important artists and movements of the period, with material on each artist's life and work, characteristics of style, and the relationship of artistic movements to historical and intellectual currents of the time. The author covers a wide range of material, and his presentation is lucid and perceptive. Neo-classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Academics, and Salon Painters and Impressionism are covered, and the following artists are included: David, Gros, Girodet, Gerard, Guerin, Prud'hon, Goya, Fuseli, Blake Runge, Friedrich, Turner, Constable, Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix, Corot, Rousseau, Daumier Millet, Courbet, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, and Cezanne. Lorenz Eitner is professor of art history at Stanford University. He won the prestigious Mitchell Prize for art history in 1984 for his book on Gericault.