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Author Julia, Isabelle.

Title Modern woman : daughters and lovers 1850-1918 : drawings from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris / [curator, Isabelle Julia]
Published South Brisbane, Qld. : Queensland Art Gallery ; Sydney, N.S.W. : Art Exhibitions Australia, 2012

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 MELB  757.4 Jul/Mwd  AVAILABLE
Description 159 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm
regular print
Contents Plates: Women's faces -- Mother, child -- Parisiennes -- Reflections of desire -- Nudes on paper -- Women and intimacy -- Women at work: in the country; in the city; the oldest trade in the world -- Entertainment and recreation -- Clio and her sisters -- The patriot
Summary Modern Women explores a watershed period of French history through drawings of women by major artists of the Belle Epoque. Exhibition 24 March to 24 June 2012 showing exclusively at the Queensland Art Gallery
Analysis Australian
Drawing, French - 19th/20th centuries - 1850s-1910s
Women in art
Notes "This exhibition catalogue, based on an exhibition drawn from the collection of Paris's renowned Musée d'Orsay, explores the daily life of women in the changing world of late nineteenth-century France through the medium of drawing."--Publisher
Catalogue of an exhibition held at Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 24 March-24 June 2012
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Musée d'Orsay -- Exhibitions.
Queensland Art Gallery -- Exhibitions.
Art, French -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Drawing, French -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Drawing, French -- 19th century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions.
Drawing, French -- Australia -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Women in art -- Exhibitions.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Julia, Isabelle.
Musée d'Orsay.
Queensland Art Gallery.
LC no. 2011487456
ISBN 1921503416 (paperback)
9781921503412 (paperback)