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The Faure Song Cycles: Poetry and Music, 1861–1921 9780520969902
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The Fauré Song Cycles
The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Roth Family Foundation Imprint in Music, established by a major gift from Sukey and Gil Garcetti and Michael P. Roth. Also, support for this publication was generously provided by the Publications Endowment of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Fauré Song Cycles Poetry and Music, 1861–1921
Stephen Rumph
UNIVERSIT Y OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
University of California Press Oakland, California © 2020 by Stephen Rumph Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Rumph, Stephen C., author. Title: The Fauré song cycles : poetry and music, 1861-1921 / Stephen Rumph. Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2020004308 (print) | lccn 2020004309 (ebook) | isbn 9780520297623 (cloth) | isbn 9780520969902 (epub) Subjects: lcsh: Fauré, Gabriel, 1845-1924. Songs. | Song cycles—19th century—History and criticism. | Song cycles—20th century—Histo
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How Monet became a millionaire: the importance of the artist’s account books
1 Introduction
By the early years of the twentieth century, Monet was a very affluent artist, surrounded by the accoutrements of wealth, including a Panhard & Levassor car, an extensive house at Giverny, with expansive gardens tended by six gardeners, and a large paintings collection. In histories of Impressionism in the early part of the twentieth century, Monet was generally presented as the leading painter of the Impressionist group, and certainly the leading landscape painter (Duret, 1906, 1910; Mauclair, 1903). How did Monet achieve this celebrity and prosperity? This article focuses on a resource that has been somewhat overlooked but which in fact represents arguably the principal means of comprehending Monet’s developing commercial success. This is the group of three account books, which Monet kept intermittently over 40 years between 1872 and 1912. These are housed in the Musée Marmottan Monet, having entered the museum’s collection in 1966 as part of a bequest by the artist’s son, Michel.Footnote 1 This article seeks to explore these account books in order to understand Monet’s rise to wealth.
Monet’s first account book, bound in blue, covers the years from 1872 to 1876. The second
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