{"product_id":"charles-gleyre-18061874-9780691044484","title":"Charles Gleyre  1806-1874","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnown chiefly for his role as a teacher of the leading Impressionists  Charles Gleyre (1806-1874) won great acclaim for his own paintings at home in Switzerland and abroad  eventually gaining recognition as the most eminent Swiss painter between Fuseli and Hodler. Gleyre can now be seen as a highly original artist working in a late romantic-classical vein. In these two volumes  William Hauptman presents the first detailed account of the artists life and work since Clments study in 1878  and the first catalogue raisonn of his paintings  drawings  and water colors. One of his aims is to explore the importance of Gleyres art and influence in nineteenth-century France and Switzerland.  Drawing on recently discovered documents  letters  and sketchbooks  Hauptman provides new information on Gleyres extensive voyage to the Middle East  his unorthodox attitudes toward his own paintings and their exhibition  the originality of his major works for French and Swiss patrons  and his unconventional teaching career that spanned twenty-five years. The author pays particular attention to never- before-published material  including journals and diaries of friends and colleagues with whom Gleyre worked and traveled  and sketches Gleyre made for his American patron  John Lowell  Jr. Together these volumes examine and illustrate more than fifteen hundred works  ranging chronologically from Gleyres youthful portraits and figure studies of 1825 to his last painting  said to have been retouched on the day of his death. The result is a rare  significant overview of a little-known artist whose work merits greater attention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923797114933,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691044481","price":344.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691044484.jpg?v=1794115144","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/charles-gleyre-18061874-9780691044484","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}