George Eliot's Visits to Exhibitions of French Art

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 6 to Chapter 2 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

She attended the French Exhibition in 1854 (Letters, II, 15455), 1857 (Letters, II, 377), and 1867 (Cross, III, 14). For details of these exhibitions and the amazing career of Gambart, see Jeremy Maas, Gambart: Prince of the Victorian Art World (London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1975).

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