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June 11, 2008
Sébastien Allard, Robert Rosenblum, Guilhem Scherf, and MaryAnne Stevens Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1830 Exh. cat. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 432 pp.; 260 ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781903973233)

Exhibition schedule: Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 3–April 20, 2007

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Sébastien Allard, Robert Rosenblum, Guilhem Scherf, and MaryAnne Stevens Portraits publics, portraits privés 1770–1830 Exh. cat. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2005. 383 pp.; 220 color ills.; 19 b/w ills. Paper Euros 45.00 (2711850315)

Exhibition schedule: Grand Palais, Paris, October 2, 2006–January 9, 2007

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.58

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Louis-François Bertin (1832). Oil on canvas. 45 5/8 x 37 3/8 in. (116 x 95 cm). Musée du Louvre, Paris (R.F. 1071).

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Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1830 is the companion publication to the best and most comprehensive exhibition of portraits, and indeed of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century European art, not to have come to the United States in a long time. The show, conceived by the late Robert Rosenblum and MaryAnne Stevens, was originally intended to travel to the Guggenheim Museum in New York in addition to the Grand Palais in...