中文简介：

本书探讨了素描这种艺术媒介在19世纪法国的历史和发展，并记录了它在克利夫兰艺术博物馆的作用。该书汇集了41位艺术家的素描作品，其中包括标志性艺术家如Honoré Daumier、Berthe Morisot和Auguste Renoir等人的作品，以及象征主义艺术家Alexandre Séon的彩色铅笔研究和一组名为“黑色素描”的作品。该书还有五篇由知名学者撰写的文章，对19世纪法国的绘画制作和收藏进行了新的阐释。在19世纪的法国，素描从一种艺术培训的手段扩展到一种独立的媒介，具有丰富的实验潜力。越来越多的公共和私人展览场所开始展示艺术家们的素描作品，吸引了一批对素描独特技术和主题感兴趣的观众。

英文简介：

Nineteenth-Century French Drawings explores the history of this medium, and chronicles the remarkable part it has played throughout the past decades at the Cleveland Museum of Art. There are works by such iconic artists as Honoré Daumier, Berthe Morisot and Auguste Renoir, a luminous coloured pencil study by symbolist artist Alexandre Séon and a group of “noir” drawings―named for their use of varied black drawing media―by Henri Fantin-Latour, Albert-Charles Lebourg and Adolphe Appian, among others. Entries illuminate the role of drawing within 41 artists' works and five essays by leading scholars shed new light on the making and collecting of drawings in France during this extraordinary period. In 19th-century France, drawing expanded from a means of artistic training to an independent medium with rich potential for experimentation. A variety of new materials became available to artists, encouraging figures ranging from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres to Paul Cezanne to reconsider drawing's place within their practice. Public and private exhibition venues increasingly began to display their works, building an audience attracted by the intimacy of drawings and their unique techniques and subjects.