Michael Levey, former Director of the National Gallery in London, traces the major trends of European painting in the eighteenth century, taking as his theme the exciting evolution--and revolution--that took place in art from Watteau's birth to the death of Goya. 154 illus., 22 in color.
This volume contains 10 representative works of art in the Huntington collection that illustrate the richness and diversity of British painting during the later 18th and early 19th centuries. Artists at this time borrowed styles from ancient Greece and China up to the just closing rococo period.
