Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1891771019 ISBN 13: 9781891771019

Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz is the catalogue of an exhibition that presents, for the first time, a selection from the most comprehensive private American collection of French old master drawings. The catalogue features 115 drawings by seventy artists, which range in date from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the early years of the nineteenth. The leading French artists of the period - Jacques-Charles Bellange, Jacques Callot, Simon Vouet, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, Francois Boucher, Jean-Honore Fragonard, and Jacques-Louis David - are all here, but the importance of the collection lies in its broad representation of the many brilliant draftsmen active during these two crucial centuries in the history of French art. The catalogue incorporates the results of years of research on these drawings and will make a significant contribution to this relatively unstudied field.

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From Library Journal:

These two works cover essentially the same period in distinct ways. Both catalogs were written by staff at the sponsoring institution, but the Harvard publication has fuller discussions, a better-developed critical apparatus, and a broader scope than the Met's. As the catalog of one privately formed collection, Harvard's work has a unity of vision in its contents, while the Met's combines well-known drawings held by various institutions with many less familiar sheets from private collections. Harvard's catalog is arranged by artist's birth date, the Met's chronologically and thematically. Plates in both titles are very good. Although both books would work well in most public and academic art history collections, the Met catalog would be more appropriate for the general reader at a public library. The Harvard catalog, which contains excellent indexes of former owners, artists' subjects, and the like, is better suited to the serious academic researcher in a university.AJack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1891771019
• ISBN 13: 9781891771019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 492
• Editor: Clark Alvin L. Jr., Grasselli Margaret Morgan, Mejanes Jean-Francois, Robinson William W.