The Painter's Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard

Although one may or may not be convinced by the author's theses, it remains true that her presentation of same comprises the lion's share of the book's pages. The art works are presented one might say merely as exhibits, almost devoid of worth as works of art. As a case in point, nowhere in the book are we given the actual physical dimensions of any of the paintings, such lack of data to me representing a real failure. Without dimensions the paintings lack full reality.It should also be noted that the works discussed represent only a portion of the artists' output. Boucher painted excellent landscapes, and Fragonard painted excellent genre scenes, and these are entirely absent from both the text and the pictures.On the plus side, the color reproductions are excellent.