Dr. Leanne Zalewski has published articles on art collections, participated in numerous conferences on early Gilded Age art collecting, and received support for her research from the Getty Research Institute, Huntington Library, Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Collection, and the American Association of University Professors.

This book is the definitive account of the passionate love affair between the opulent collectors of America’s ‘gilded age’ and the dazzling art made by 19th-century French academic painters. Richly textured, thoroughly researched, lavishly documented and vividly written; it is a real treat for readers.

• List of IllustrationsSeries Editor's IntroductionAcknowledgmentsPrefaceForeword1. Introduction 2. Paris’s Guiding Light: The Universal Exposition of 18673. “Paris is for Sale” and Americans are Buying 3. Purchasing Ideologies: Seven New York Collections5. Marketing the Collections: Loans, Periodicals, Books, and Prints 6. From Private Collection to Public Good: The Metropolitan Museum of Art7. Conclusion: The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 BibliographyIndex

Dr. Leanne Zalewski has published articles on art collections, participated in numerous conferences on early Gilded Age art collecting, and received support for her research from the Getty Research Institute, Huntington Library, Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Collection, and the American Association of University Professors.

This book is the definitive account of the passionate love affair between the opulent collectors of America’s ‘gilded age’ and the dazzling art made by 19th-century French academic painters. Richly textured, thoroughly researched, lavishly documented and vividly written; it is a real treat for readers.

• List of IllustrationsSeries Editor's IntroductionAcknowledgmentsPrefaceForeword1. Introduction 2. Paris’s Guiding Light: The Universal Exposition of 18673. “Paris is for Sale” and Americans are Buying 3. Purchasing Ideologies: Seven New York Collections5. Marketing the Collections: Loans, Periodicals, Books, and Prints 6. From Private Collection to Public Good: The Metropolitan Museum of Art7. Conclusion: The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 BibliographyIndex

Dr. Leanne Zalewski has published articles on art collections, participated in numerous conferences on early Gilded Age art collecting, and received support for her research from the Getty Research Institute, Huntington Library, Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Collection, and the American Association of University Professors.

This book is the definitive account of the passionate love affair between the opulent collectors of America’s ‘gilded age’ and the dazzling art made by 19th-century French academic painters. Richly textured, thoroughly researched, lavishly documented and vividly written; it is a real treat for readers.

• List of IllustrationsSeries Editor's IntroductionAcknowledgmentsPrefaceForeword1. Introduction 2. Paris’s Guiding Light: The Universal Exposition of 18673. “Paris is for Sale” and Americans are Buying 3. Purchasing Ideologies: Seven New York Collections5. Marketing the Collections: Loans, Periodicals, Books, and Prints 6. From Private Collection to Public Good: The Metropolitan Museum of Art7. Conclusion: The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 BibliographyIndex