Liberté!: Ary Scheffer and French Romanticism

Liberté! Ary Scheffer and French Romanticism tells the story of Dutch painter Ary Scheffer and his artistic battle for freedom and equality; the ideals of the French Revolution of 1789.

Liberté! Ary Scheffer and French Romanticism takes you to turbulent Paris in the first half of the nineteenth century, a time of political upheaval and cultural flourishing. Artists deployed their brushes as weapons or climbed the barricades themselves. So did the Dutch Ary Scheffer, who soon became one of Paris' most famous painters. His work still hangs in the Louvre's gallery of honor. Together with French artists such as Eugène Delacroix and Théodore Géricault, he fought for freedom and equality; the ideals of the French Revolution of 1789.

In addition to a number of art-historical essays by experts from the Netherlands and France, philosopher Maarten Doorman reflects on the meaning of Romanticism today. The publication also includes a catalogue section with an overview of the exhibition. This makes the publication a standard work on the position of Ary Scheffer within French Romanticism.

Author: Quirine Meer Mohr
Publisher: Waanders
Published: 11/01/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.48lbs
Size: 11.87h x 9.45w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9789462625846
ISBN10: 9462625840
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Individual Artists | General
- Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions | Group Shows
- Art | Movements | Romanticism

About the Author
Quirine van der Meer Mohr is a Master's student (University of Utrecht) who has prepared catalogue entries on Turner's Dutch sketchbooks for J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours. As of 2018 she is Curator of 19th-Century Art at the Dordrechts Museum.