Old Masters at the Art Institute of Chicago

by Edited by Larry J. Feinberg; With contributions by Bruce Boucher, Koenraad Brosens, Larry J. Feinberg, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Christa C. Mayer Thurman, and Nicholas Turner

• ISBN13: 9780300119510
• ISBN10: 0300119518
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-11-15
• Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago

Summary

This issue ofMuseum Studiesfocuses on the Art Institute of Chicago's impressive collection of Old Master paintings, works on paper, textiles, tapestries, and sculptures. With an introduction by Larry J. Feinberg on the growth and evolution of the museum's Old Master collection, the book includes five fascinating and richly illustrated essays written by museum curators and scholars. They examine recent acquisitions and present new discoveries and scholarship on a range of worksincluding a recently rediscovered Nativity by Fra Bartolommeo; a late-15th-century Hispano-Flemish sculpture of Saint Michael and the Devil; a series of reattributed drawings by 17th-century artists such as Guido Reni and Guercino; a pair of early-18th-century tapestries designed by the French artist Charles LeBrun; and a stunning group of works by Charles-Antoine Coypel, Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, and Maurice Quentin de La Tour, the preeminent pastellists of 18th-century France.

Author Biography

Larry J. Feinberg is Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Curator of European Painting at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Introduction	4	(2)
Larry J. Feinberg
A Brief History of the Old Masters in the Art Institute of Chicago	6	(18)
Larry J. Feinberg
``War in Heaven'': Saint Michael and the Devil	24	(8)
Bruce Boucher
Fra Bartolommeo's Nativity: A Rediscovered High Renaissance Masterpiece	32	(12)
Larry J. Feinberg
Much of Real Fascination: New Discoveries among the Italian Baroque Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago	44	(16)
Nicholas Turner
Autumn and Winter: Two Gobelins Tapestries after Charles Le Brun	60	(12)
Christa C. Mayer Thurman
Koenraad Brosens
``A Finesse of the Crayon'': Eighteenth-Century French Portraits in Pastel	72	(16)
Suzanne Folds McCullagh
Notes	88