An Artist in His Studio

View from an Artist's Studio by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret

 "Paris spreads away to the horizon her great seed plot, sown with innumerable houses, so small in the distance that one might hold them in the palm of one hand. Paris, vision at once monstrous and sublime, colossal crucible wherein bubbles increasingly that strange mixture of pains and pleasures of active forces and fevered ideals." —Paul Gsell

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Books:
Charles Bargue and Jean-Léon Gérôme

The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers

The Studios of Paris: The Capital of Art in the Late Nineteenth Century

The Academy and French Painting in the 19th Century

Series on GurneyJourney:
"Beaux-Arts Instruction" Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3