This book, the first entirely devoted to French watercolors of the eighteenth century, reviews the masterpieces of an art that has been too long neglected. The 42 color plates of the works of such celebrated painters as Fragonard, David, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, and Louis Moreau, and of Hoin, Hilair, and other minor masters, form a moving image of the realities of French life to the eve of the Revolution. The biographies, Philippe Huisman's esthetic...