Antoine Schnapper (10 July 1933 – 29 August 2004) was a French art historian on art of the 17th and the 18th century. A student of

André Chastel André Chastel (15 November 1912, Paris – 18 July 1990, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Renaissance, Italian Renaissance. He was a professor at the Collège de France, where he held the chair of ...

, he organised many retrospectives on artists of that period, notably one at the

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in 1989 on

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

to commemorate the bicentenary of the

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. He taught at the

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...

Selected works

* ''Jean Jouvenet (1644-1717) et la peinture d'histoire à Paris'', nouvelle édition complétée par Christine Gouzi, Arthena, 2010 (ISBN 978-2-903239-42-8). * ''Le métier de peintre au grand siècle'' ; Paris : Gallimard, 2004. * ''Collections et collectionneurs dans la France du XVIIe siècle'' ; Paris : Flammarion, 1988. * ''David témoin de son temps'', Office du Livre,

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, 1980

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* ''Tableaux pour le Trianon de marbre 1688-1714.'' ; Paris, La Haye, Mouton, 1967. * ''Jean Jouvenet, 1644-1717.'' ; Rouen. Musée des beaux arts, 1966.

Bibliography

*''Necrologies - Antoine Schnapper (1933-2004)'' ;

Pierre Rosenberg Pierre Max Rosenberg (born 13 April 1936) is a French art historian, curator, and professor. Rosenberg is the honorary president a director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and since 1995, he has held the 23rd seat of the Académie Française. ...

; Revue de l'art. no. 146, (2004): 101.

References

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