{"product_id":"a-paris-life-a-baltimore-treasure-9781421424446","title":"A Paris Life A Baltimore Treasure","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe gripping biography of a man and his passion for art.   In 1857, George A. Lucas, a young Baltimorean who was fluent in French and enamored of French art, arrived in Paris. There, he established an extensive personal network of celebrated artists and art dealers, becoming the quintessential French connection for American collectors. The most remarkable thing about Lucas was not the art that he acquired for his clients (who included William and Henry Walters, the founders of the Walters Art Museum, and John Taylor Johnston, the founding president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) but the massive collection of 18,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and etchings, as well as 1,500 books, journals, and other sources about French artists, that he acquired for himself. Paintings by Cabanel, Corot, and Daubigny, prints by Whistler, Manet, and Cassatt, and portfolios of information about hundreds of French artists filled his apartment and spilled into the adjacent flat of his mistress.   B\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith rich period detail and a genuine warmth towards its subject, it is eminently readable. Written for scholars and a general audience alike \u003ci\u003eA Paris Life, a Baltimore Treasure\u003c\/i\u003e amplifies Lucas's vital role in linking collectors in the United States and French artists during the highpoint of American buying power, from the Civil War until the mid 1880s, a story that, to date, has only been told in temporary exhibitions of Lucas's collection.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century Art Worldwide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMazaroff details three decades of uncertainty over the ownership and importance of Lucas's gift. This story is greatly enhanced by the fact that most of the actors in the legal drama, which played out from the 1960s to the 1990s, gave interviews to the author; this oral history is the kind of vital inside information that scholars in future decades will relish. The book raises questions about art and money, personal enthusiasms and institutional priorities, and the grey areas in between, which make the process of shepherding gifts of art so political and complex.\u003cbr\u003e—Jo Briggs, \u003ci\u003eThe Art Newspaper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e1. The Cultivation of Lucas\u003cbr\u003e2. The Wandering Road to Paris\u003cbr\u003e3. Lucas and Paris in a Time of Transition\u003cbr\u003e4. Lucas and Whistler\u003cbr\u003e5. The Links to Lucas\u003cbr\u003e6. From Ecouen to Barbizon\u003cbr\u003e7. M, Eugene, and Maud\u003cbr\u003e8. When Money Is No Object\u003cbr\u003e9. The Lucas Collection\u003cbr\u003e10. The Final Years\u003cbr\u003e11. The Terms of Lucas's Will\u003cbr\u003e12. A Collection in Search of a Home\u003cbr\u003e13. The Shot across the Bow\u003cbr\u003e14. The Glorification of Lucas\u003cbr\u003e15. In Judge Kaplan's Court\u003cbr\u003e16. Lucas Saved\u003cbr\u003ePostscript\u003cbr\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408124223831,"sku":"9781421424446","price":49.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421424446.jpg?v=1730501672","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-paris-life-a-baltimore-treasure-9781421424446","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}