Antoine Schnapper

Antoine Schnapper (10 July 1933 – 29 August 2004) of German descent, was a French art historian on art of the 18th century. A student of André Chastel, he organised many retrospectives on artists of that period, notably one at the Louvre in 1989 on Jacques-Louis David to commemorate the bicentenary of the French Revolution. He taught at the université de Paris IV.

Selected works

• Le métier de peintre au grand siècle ; Paris : Gallimard, 2004. OCLC 56821323
• Collections et collectionneurs dans la France du XVIIe siècle ; Paris : Flammarion, 1988. OCLC 19331396
• David témoin de son temps, Office du Livre, Fribourg, 1980 ISBN 2-85047-000-7 Reference
• Tableaux pour le Trianon de marbre 1688-1714. ; Paris, La Haye, Mouton, 1967. OCLC 2323606
• Jean Jouvenet, 1644-1717. ; Rouen. Musée des beaux arts, 1966. OCLC 2906632

Bibliography

• Necrologies - Antoine Schnapper (1933-2004) ; Pierre Rosenberg ; Revue de l'art. no. 146, (2004): 101. OCLC 97854301