The Secret Armoire: Corot's Figure Paintings and the World of Reading
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Secret Armoire: Corot's Figure Paintings and the World of Reading
By (Author) Mariantonia e Reinhard-Felic
Hirmer Verlag
Hirmer Verlag
10th December 2011
Germany
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Individual artists, art monographs
Portraits and self-portraiture in art
Paintings and painting
759.4
Physical Properties
Hardback
128
990g
Description
The outstanding painting A Girl Reading by Camille Corot (17961875) is placed in the context of a selection of Corot's paintings and drawings providing a key to his creative output in the genre of figure painting.
Reviews
"This small, beautiful show remind[s] us of one of the quiet voices of the great century of French painting."--Willibald Sauerlnder "New York Review of Books" (4/28/2011 12:00:00 AM)
Author Bio
Mariantonia Reinhard-Felice is curator of the Oskar Reinhart Collection "Am Rmerholz" in Winterthur, Switzerland.
