Georges de La Tour's haunting depiction of a repentant Mary Magdalen gazing into a mirror by candlelight; Jean Sim???on Chardin's perfectly balanced image of a young boy making a house of cards; Jean Honor??? Fragonard's monumental suite of landscapes showing aristocrats at play in picturesque gardens--these are among the familiar and beloved masterpieces in the National Gallery of Art, which houses one of the most important collections of French old master paintings outside France. This lavishly illustrated book, written ...
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Georges de La Tour's haunting depiction of a repentant Mary Magdalen gazing into a mirror by candlelight; Jean Sim???on Chardin's perfectly balanced image of a young boy making a house of cards; Jean Honor??? Fragonard's monumental suite of landscapes showing aristocrats at play in picturesque gardens--these are among the familiar and beloved masterpieces in the National Gallery of Art, which houses one of the most important collections of French old master paintings outside France. This lavishly illustrated book, written by leading scholars and the result of years of research and technical analysis, catalogues nearly one hundred paintings, from works by Fran???ois Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by ???lisabeth Louise Vig???e Le Brun in the eighteenth. French art before the revolution is characterized by an astonishing variety of styles and themes and by a consistently high quality of production, the result of an efficient training system developed by the traditional guilds and the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded in 1648 by King Louis XIV. The National Gallery collection reflects this quality and diversity, featuring excellent examples by all the leading painters: ideal landscapes by Claude Lorrain and biblical subjects by Nicolas Poussin, two artists who spent most of their careers in Rome; deeply moving religious works by La Tour, S???bastien Bourdon, and Simon Vouet; portraits of the grandest format (Philippe de Champaigne's Omer Talon ) and the most intimate (Nicolas de Largillierre's Elizabeth Throckmorton ); and familiar scenes of daily life by the Le Nain brothers in the seventeenth century and Chardin in the eighteenth. The Gallery's collection is especially notable for its holdings of eighteenth-century painting, from Jean Antoine Watteau to Hubert Robert, and including marvelous suites of paintings by Fran???ois Boucher and Fragonard. All these works are explored in detailed, readable entries that will appeal as much to the general art lover as to the specialist.
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VG-(Light wear to dj edges; page edges may be tanning lightly; otherwise clean. ) Chocolate cloth, siena and color illus. dust jacket, 530 pp., 214 BW illus., 118 color illus. This lavishly illustrated and extensively annotated catalogue presents 99 specific pieces by more than 30 artists, "from works by Francois Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun in the eighteenth." (dj) All are found in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, which has one of the most important collections of French old master paintings outside France. Includes an essay by Philip Consibee and a sizable bibliography. A hefty tome.
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Very good. Dust jacket shows some light rubbing, scuffing and edge flaring and wear. Corners show some light bumping, scuffing and shelf wear. Books that are part of the N collection.
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Near fine in very good jacket. Illustrated in color and b/w throughout. 530 pages. Thick 4to, brown cloth, d.w. Washington: National Gallery of Art, (2009). A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper, scuffing to both panels.
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New. The National Gallery of Art houses one of the most important collections of French old master paintings outside France. This book catalogues nearly one hundred paintings of the collection, from works by Francois Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun in the eighteenth. Editor(s): Rand, Richard. Series: National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogues. Num Pages: 552 pages, 118 color illus. 214 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3J; ACN; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 290 x 253 x 46. Weight in Grams: 3250. 2010. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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