The Wrightsman Pictures - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300107196 ISBN 13: 9780300107197

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005

Synopsis

This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman’s private collection. These notable works were collected over the past four decades, many of them with the Museum in mind; some were purchased by the Museum through the Wrightsman Fund.

Highlights of the book include masterpieces by Vermeer, El Greco, Rubens, Van Dyck, Georges de La Tour, Jacques-Louis David, and Caspar David Friedrich as well as numerous paintings by the eighteenth-century Venetian artists Canaletto, Guardi, and the Tiepolos, father and son, plus a dozen remarkable portrait drawings by Ingres. Each work is reproduced in color and is accompanied by a short essay.

About this title

Book Description:

This lavish catalogue presents 124 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that constitute the renowned Wrightsman Collection. These notable works, collected by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, both for themselves and for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, include masterpieces by Vermeer, El Greco, Rubens, the Tiepolos, and Ingres.

About the Author:

Everett Fahy is John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pierre Rosenberg is the former director of the Musée du Louvre.

About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300107196
• ISBN 13: 9780300107197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 452
• Editor: Fahy Everett