1st Edition
The Société des Trois in the Nineteenth Century The Translocal Artistic Union of Whistler, Fantin-Latour, and Legros
Introduction
1. The Importance of Unity: Parisian Students in the Early Second Empire
2. United: The Formation of the Société
3. A Cross-Channel Union: Beyond Paris, Beyond Students
4. Unity in Action: 1863 and the Salon des Refusés
5. Unity on Canvas: Pivotal Portraits of the Société
6. The Union Undone: An Inevitable End
Epilogue
Biography
Melissa Berry is an instructor in art history at the University of Victoria, Canada.
“A refreshingly direct and jargon-free study by a young scholar illuminating the experiences of Whistler, Legros, and Fantin-Latour as young painters, fashioning themselves as the Société des trois, who together navigated the Paris and London art worlds of the 1850s and '60s while transitioning from students to professional artists.”
– Aida Audeh, Hamline University
