The Secret Armoire

Corot's Figure Paintings and the World of Reading

Mariantonia e Reinhard-Felic

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English

Hirmer Verlag
10 December 2011

Art & design styles: Romanticism; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs; Portraits in art

The outstanding painting A Girl Reading by Camille Corot (1796?1875) 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.

By: Mariantonia e Reinhard-Felic
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: Annotated edition
Dimensions: Height: 284mm, Width: 232mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 990g
ISBN: 9783777438412
ISBN 10: 3777438413
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 10 December 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Mariantonia Reinhard-Felice is curator of the Oskar Reinhart Collection ""Am Römerholz"" in Winterthur, Switzerland."

Reviews for The Secret Armoire: Corot's Figure Paintings and the World of Reading

This small, beautiful show remind[s] us of one of the quiet voices of the great century of French painting. --Willibald Sauerl nder New York Review of Books (04/28/2011) This small, beautiful show remind[s] us of one of the quiet voices of the great century of French painting. --Willibald Sauerl nder New York Review of Books (04/28/2011)