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A dictionary-guide to painters in Paris
> the addresses of their studios
> the buildings they decorated
> the places they depicted
>> the streets bearing their names
> illustrated with 60 contemporary photographs and 4 thematic itineraries
From the early 17th century through to the late 20th century, Paris was the world capital of painting. Thousands of artists flocked to the city to learn their métier. They settled there, painting their surroundings and beautifying them. This directory is an essential and practical tool inviting us to seek out the numerous traces left behind by these painters. It features an alphabetical listing, street by street, of their homes and studios, the buildings they decorated (palaces, churches, town halls, mansions, façades), and the places they depicted.
We are led from famous academies and cafés to lofty glass-roofed studios, past little-known places where the ghosts of illustrious artists still wander-Auguste Renoir in the Allée des Brouillards, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the Avenue Frochot, Balthus in the Cour de Rohan, Pablo Picasso in the Rue La Boétie and the Rue des Grands-Augustins, Marc Chagall in the Quai d'Anjou, Alberto Giacometti in the Rue Hippolyte-Maindron, and Georges Braque in the street that bears his name and studios that have become museums : Eugène Delacroix's in the Rue de Furstemberg and Gustave Moreau's in the Rue de La Rochefoucauld.
Whether famous or forgotten, all the painters in this guide illustrate the intensity of the capital's artistic activity from 1608 onwards, when Henri IV chose to house artists in his palace, the Louvre, making Paris the equal of Rome in splendour.
Formerly a journalist for the newspaper Le Monde, Frédéric Gaussen, a passionate lover of Paris and the arts, is the author of several books on Parisian artists and their studios.
