Editorial
The art of the archive
Articles
Christoph Martin Vogtherr, Antoine Pesne’s ‘Samson and Delilah’: the genesis of a morceau de reception for the Academy in Paris
Katie Hanson, Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s lost ‘Little pilgrim’
Guillaume Faroult, Gavin Hamilton’s ‘Venus presenting Helen to Paris’: a new painting for the Louvre
Frédérique Baumgartner, Two rediscovered paintings by Hubert Robert and their French revolutionary context
Barbara Wright, A drawing for ‘Hodna’: an early painting by Eugène Fromentin
Augustin de Butler, Renoir’s visit to London
Obituary
Catherine Monbeig Goguel, Roseline Bacou (1923-2013)
Books
Peta Motture, Orsanmichele and the History and Preservation of the Civic Monument
David Scrase, Glasgow Museums: The Italian Paintings
Philippe Bordes, Pour l’amour de l’art. Artistes et amateurs français à Rome au XVIIIe siècle
Colin B. Bailey, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagination
Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Fragonard’s Progress of Love at the Frick Collection
Patricia Smyt, Ingres and the Studio: Women, Painting, History
Felix Krämer, Vom Klassizismus zum Kubismus. Bestandskatalog der französischen Malerei in der Kunsthalle Bremen
Nancy Ireson, Art of the Actual: Naturalism and Style in Early Third Republic France, 1880–1900
Augustin de Butler, Renoir in The Barnes Foundation
Richard Shone, Edouard Manet
Exhibition Review
Xavier F. Salomon, Piranesi and Paestum. London, Berlin and New York
Randall C. Griffin, George Bellows. Washington, New York and London
Sarah Whitfield, Becoming Picasso. London
James Cahill, London exhibitions. London
James Boaden, Glam: The performance of style
Timothy Hyman, Obsessions: R.B. Kitaj, 1932–2007. Berlin; London and Chichester; Hamburg
Barry Bergdoll, Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Berlin and Munich
Xanthe Brooke, Pietro Bembo. Padua
Dawn Ades, Dalí. Paris and Madrid
Tim Barringer, The Civil War and American art. Washington and New York
John-Paul Stonard, Dieter Roth (Museum of Modern Art). New York
Calendar
Notes on Contributors