Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-1945.
Author : New York Public Library
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Page : 558 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Bibliography
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Includes its Report, 1896-1945.
Author : New York Public Library. Prints Division
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Page : 854 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Art
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Author : New York Public Library. Prints Division
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Page : 812 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Prints
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Author : Monica Preti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351569929
The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, scholars will welcome this collection of essays by internationally recognised experts that gathers together for the first time varied and stimulating perspectives on the nineteenth-century collector and art market for French eighteenth-century art, and ultimately the formation of collections that form part of such august institutions as the Louvre and the National Gallery in London. The book is the culmination of a successful conference organised jointly between the Wallace Collection and the Louvre, on the occasion of the acclaimed exhibition Masterpieces from the Louvre: The Collection of Louis La Caze. Exploring themes relating to collectors, critics, markets and museums from France, England and Germany, the volume will appeal to academics and students alike, and become essential reading on any course that deals with the history of collecting, the history of taste and the nineteenth-century craze for the perceived douceur de vivre of eighteenth-century France. It also provides valuable insight into the history of the art markets and the formation of museums.
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Page : 566 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1979
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Author :
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
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Author : Avery Library
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Page : 848 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Architecture
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Author : Mary Tavener Holmes
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892368322
In a garden glade before a grand fountain, surrounded by a musical party, an elegant woman in a lustrous white gown dances as part of a foursome, raising her eyes to the viewer as if extending an invitation to the dance. This is the enticing scene in the J. Paul Getty Museum's painting "Dance before a Fountain" by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), an excellent example of the fete galante, a genre that was created and reached the peak of its popularity in France during the first half of the eighteenth century. This monograph seeks to familiarize American audiences with Lancret, a master of this genre, who was a revered painter in his own time, rivalling his contemporaries Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher, and a favourite of crowned heads across Europe. Mary Tavener Holmes's engrossing text uses this painting as a springboard to reveal a remarkable amount about the painter, his mode of painting, Paris at the time this work was made, eighteenth-century dance, and the world of art patronage and collecting in France and elsewhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Lavishly illustrated with comparative paintings by artists such as Watteau, Boucher, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Francois De Troy, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and Hubert Robert, this fascinating peek into a bygone Parisian era is a treat for the eyes and the intellect alike.