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TitleA Ball

Creator nameBéraud, Jean

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1878

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/une-soiree-69320

Accession numberRF 1994 15

SubjectsImpressionism (Art)--FranceAristocracy (Social class) in artPainting, French--19th centuryClothing and dress--France--History--19th century

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Chapter 9: Spaces of Modernity

Gloria Groom

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

Writing from Paris in her diary on the last day of 1868, the young American Frances Willard noted her admiration for “the brilliant shop-windows and the almost equally dazzling costumes...

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Gloria Groom

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.165-185

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00356.15

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Chapter subject tags:Clothing and dress--France--History--19th centuryImpressionism (Art)--FranceStreets--France--ParisHorse racingParks--FranceShopping--France

4. The Impressionist Agenda

Albert Boime

Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution

~I WANT to begin this chapter with the case study of Gustave Caillebotte, both patron of, and participant in, the Impressionist collective. He was the youngest (born 1848) and most well off of the group, and the most conservative in style and content. His major works attest to a thorough assimilation of the rhetoric of...

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Albert Boime

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.77-113

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00021.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19161&redirecttoanchor=42408

Chapter subject tags:Paris (France)--History--Commune, 1871Impressionism (Art)--FranceCaillebotte, Gustave, 1848-1894Painting, French--19th centuryArt and society--France--History--19th centuryLabor in art--France--19th centuryArt and industry--France--19th centuryGrands boulevards (Paris, France)--19th centuryHaussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917

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