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During the first half of the 19th century, the open window emerged as a consistent motif in German, Danish, French, and Russian painting and drawing. Rooms with a View is the first book to explore this intriguing theme in European art, with its Romantic intimations of unfulfilled longing and its associated qualities of poetry, luminosity, and interiority. Artists depicted this intangible mood with images of contemplative figures in hushed, sparsely furnished rooms; painters diligently at work in their studios; simple, serene displays of light entering a chamber; and windows as the focal point of views in their own right. Rooms with a View features forty oils and thirty works on paper by both well-known and largely undiscovered artists, including Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Adolph Menzel, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Martinus Rørbye, Jean Alaux, Léon Cogniet, and Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy.
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- PublisherMetropolitan Museum/Yale
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1588394131
- ISBN 13 9781588394132
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages190
- IllustratorIllus
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Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 1588394131
ISBN 13: 9781588394132
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paperback. Condition: fine. Illus (illustrator). First. Illustrated throughout in color. 190 pages. Short 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, (2011). First edition. A fine copy. Published in conjunction with the 2011 exhibition. Seller Inventory # 321848
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