Issue contents
Editorial
INHA: a future for art history in France
Article
The dispersal of the estate of Madame de Pompadour: new documentary evidence
by ALDEN R. GORDON
Shorter notices
Two newly discovered Chardins for Toledo
by PHILIP CONISBEE
Gustave Moreau abd the Raffalovich family: new documents for ‘Sappho’
by RACHEL SLOAN
The ideal of history painting: Georges Rouault and other students of Gustave Moreau at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1892–98
by CRISTINA SCASSELLATI COOKE
Edouard Vuillard: the new catalogue
by MERLIN JAMES
Book reviews
Architecture and Society in Normandy 1120–1270, L. Grant
by ALAN BORG
Stil und Erinnerung. Französische Hofkunst im Zeitalter Karls V. und im Zeitalter seiner Deutung, B. Carqué
by ANDREAS PUTH
Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque, E. Levy
by JEFFREY MULLER
Greuze and the Painting of Sentiment, E. Barker
by RICHARD RAND
Art in an Age of Counterrevolution 1815–1848, A. Boime
by SÉBASTIEN ALLARD
French Art in Nineteenth-Century Britain, E. Morris
by NICHOLAS TROMANS
James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, D. Park Curry
by TREVOR FAIRBROTHER
Félix Vallotton, 1865–1925. L'œuvre peint, M. Ducrey
by RICHARD THOMSON
Georges Braque. A Life, A. Danchev
by NICHOLAS WATKINS
Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938–1968, A. Mahon
by ROBERT RADFORD
De Kooning: an American Master, M. Stevens and A. Swan
by LYNNE COOKE
Exhibition reviews
Art from Brazil
by TONY GODFREY
Ingres
by BROOKS BEAULIEU
MAC/VAL
by AURÉLIE VERDIER
Rembrandt-Caravaggio
by XANDER VAN ECK
Splendour of Venice
by PETER HUMFREY
Fuseli
by DAVID BINDMAN
Frank Stella
by JAMES LAWRENCE
Whitney Biennial
by DAVID CARRIER
Goya’s last works
by MARCUS BURKE
In next month's issue
Decorative arts
Symbolism in Chinese art
A Burgundian cabinet in the J. Paul Getty Museum
A cameo of James I
Tapestries for Philip II of Spain
Acquisitions of contemporary furniture at the V. & A.
‘Modernism’ reviewed
Amber; ivories; silver