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Books received from 25 March to 6 November 2025 (2)
We publish here the list of books we receive in order to keep our readers regularly informed about new publications in the field of art history. As this section has not appeared for far too many months, we divide it into three parts.
The purpose here is to note their publication, possibly adding a brief description explaining what they are about (or publishing elements provided by the publisher on the back cover) and sometimes offering an opinion on their presentation. Several of these works have been or will later be the subject of full articles.
19th century :
Texts compiled, classified, and annotated by Douglas Siler, James Pradier. Correspondence. Volume IV (1847–1849), Éditions Droz, 2025, 665 p., £24, ISBN: 9782600066488.
This fourth volume continues Douglas Siler’s monumental endeavour to publish the complete correspondence of James Pradier. The first two volumes, published in 1984, were followed by a third in 1988, shortly after the retrospective Flesh Statues dedicated to the sculptor, held at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva and then at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. It is thus thirty-seven years later that the fourth volume of the six planned to date is published.
Edited by Damien Chantrenne, Henri Regnault (1843–1871), The Sword and the Brush, Musée des Avelines/Saint-Cloud, 2025, 120 p., £15, ISBN: 9782490173136.
Catalogue of the exhibition presented at the Musée des Avelines in Saint-Cloud from 3 April to 13 July 2025.
See the article.
Sylvain Bédard, Jacques-Louis David. Medals and Medallions during the Brussels Exile (1816–1825), Éditions Liber, 2025, 234 p., £42, ISBN: 9782895788423.
Excerpt from the preface by Philippe Bordes: “Sylvain Bédard’s brisk narrative betrays his passion for the codified art of the medal. All numismatists know the pleasure of holding a medal, weighing the metal, appreciating the colour, the quality of the strike, the state of preservation and wear, playing with the effects of light on the reliefs, and deciphering text and image on both sides. (...) This book will undoubtedly stimulate interest in this art (...).”
Edited by Laurent Manœuvre, Eugène Boudin, The Father of Impressionism — A Private Collection, Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris / In Fine éditions d’art, 2025, 248 p., £27, ISBN: 9782382032190.
Catalogue of the exhibition presented at the Musée Marmottan-Monet from 9 April to 31 August 2025.
See the article.
Michèle Moyne-Charlet and Anne Friang, Gabriel Loppé. Painter-Traveller in Pursuit of Modernity,…
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