Author: Emily A. Beeny
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606067362
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Jean Antoine Watteau’s death, this publication takes a close, revealing look at his recently rediscovered painting La Surprise. The painting La Surprise by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) belongs to a new genre of painting invented by the artist himself—the fête galante. These works, which show graceful open-air gatherings filled with scenes of courtship, music and dance, strolling lovers, and actors, do not so much tell a story as set a mood: one of playful, wistful, nostalgic reverie. Esteemed by collectors in Watteau’s day as a work that showed the artist at the height of his skill and success, La Surprise vanished from public view in 1848, not to reemerge for more than a century and a half. Acquired by the Getty Museum in 2017, it has never before been the subject of a dedicated publication. Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Watteau’s death, this book considers La Surprise within the context of the artist’s oeuvre and discusses the surprising history of collecting Watteau in Los Angeles. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from November 23, 2021, to February 20, 2022.
Watteau at Work
Author: Emily A. Beeny
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606067362
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Jean Antoine Watteau’s death, this publication takes a close, revealing look at his recently rediscovered painting La Surprise. The painting La Surprise by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) belongs to a new genre of painting invented by the artist himself—the fête galante. These works, which show graceful open-air gatherings filled with scenes of courtship, music and dance, strolling lovers, and actors, do not so much tell a story as set a mood: one of playful, wistful, nostalgic reverie. Esteemed by collectors in Watteau’s day as a work that showed the artist at the height of his skill and success, La Surprise vanished from public view in 1848, not to reemerge for more than a century and a half. Acquired by the Getty Museum in 2017, it has never before been the subject of a dedicated publication. Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Watteau’s death, this book considers La Surprise within the context of the artist’s oeuvre and discusses the surprising history of collecting Watteau in Los Angeles. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from November 23, 2021, to February 20, 2022.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606067362
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Jean Antoine Watteau’s death, this publication takes a close, revealing look at his recently rediscovered painting La Surprise. The painting La Surprise by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) belongs to a new genre of painting invented by the artist himself—the fête galante. These works, which show graceful open-air gatherings filled with scenes of courtship, music and dance, strolling lovers, and actors, do not so much tell a story as set a mood: one of playful, wistful, nostalgic reverie. Esteemed by collectors in Watteau’s day as a work that showed the artist at the height of his skill and success, La Surprise vanished from public view in 1848, not to reemerge for more than a century and a half. Acquired by the Getty Museum in 2017, it has never before been the subject of a dedicated publication. Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Watteau’s death, this book considers La Surprise within the context of the artist’s oeuvre and discusses the surprising history of collecting Watteau in Los Angeles. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from November 23, 2021, to February 20, 2022.
The Loves of the Gods
Author: Colin B. Bailey
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique
Author: Gustave Brunet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Catalogue D'Une Nombreuse Collection De Livres, En Tout Genre, Rares Et Curieux, Rassemblés, Avec Beaucoup Des Soins, & de Grandes Dépenses, Par Monsieur Jean Neaulme, Libraire
The Bookseller
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Catalogue of the Library of the Great Seal Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher and Bookseller
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Revolution and the Antiquarian Book
Author: Kristian Jensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107000513
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Examines the late eighteenth-century preoccupation with the acquisition of old books, and the new historical discipline created by traders.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107000513
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Examines the late eighteenth-century preoccupation with the acquisition of old books, and the new historical discipline created by traders.
Proof-sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians
Author: James Constantine Pilling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description