Download or read book Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914 written by Temma Balducci and published by Ashgate Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of nineteenth-century French portraits of men in interior spaces, contributors provide a much-needed rethinking of assumptions that link masculinity, modernity and the public realm. The artists discussed include familiar ones such as David, Delacroix, Manet and Rodin as well as less well-known figures such as Mayer, Melingue and Zorn. The essays make use of wide-ranging visual material from paintings and prints to photographs and sculpture.