Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Illustrated London News
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
European Drawings
Author: J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Library Catalog
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Nicolas Lancret
Author: Mary Tavener HolmesPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892368322
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
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.
Watteau, Music, and Theater
Author: Antoine WatteauPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393356
Category : Artists and theater
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
"Accompanying an exhibition in honor of Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this engaging book examines the influence of music and theater on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Fifteen major paintings and a number of drawings by Watteau that illustrate the connections between painting and the performing arts in Paris are explored. In addition, drawings and prints by other 18th-century artists featuring musical or theatrical subjects and objects and musical instruments are included."--Publisher description.