Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum) - Softcover

J. Paul Getty Museum, A01; Wilson, Gillian; Hess, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089236632X ISBN 13: 9780892366323

Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002

Synopsis

J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths' work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe.
This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions--among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld--it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.

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About the Author:

Gillian Wilson is Curator of Decorative Arts at the Getty Museum. Coauthor Catherine Hess is Associate Curator of Sculpture and Works of Art at the Getty Museum.

About this edition

• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 089236632X
• ISBN 13: 9780892366323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344