Family Portraits: Children in Impressionist Art

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The impressionist artists accorded great importance to family life; this book celebrates their portrayals of their mothers, wives, and children in intimate scenes together.

The impressionist masters were known for their close relationships; peers, family, art dealers, and patrons all featured regularly in their artworks, and children were favored subjects. All aspects of childhood and family life at the end of the nineteenth century-motherhood, nannies, education, games, pets, adolescence-were depicted in the works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, and others. Drawing an intimate portrait of the everyday lives of these artists and their families, this volume includes more than one hundred paintings, drawings, and sculptures alongside family photographs, juxtaposed with more contemporary photographic works that demonstrate the vibrant legacy of the impressionists.

Author Bio

Cyrille Sciama is general director and chief curator and Marie Delbarre is a research assistant at the Muse des Impressionnismes Giverny.

Dominique Lobstein is specialized in impressionist painting.

Marianne Mathieu is scientific director of the Muse Marmottan Monet.

Sylvie Patry is former director of conservation and collections at the Muse d'Orsay, and former conservation consultant at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

Philippe Piguet is an art critic and exhibition curator.

Marie Simon is an art historian. Philippe Thiebault is an honorary general curator of heritage.

Elise Wehr is a PhD student.