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9780300107197

The Wrightsman Pictures

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300107197

  • ISBN10:

    0300107196

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2005-10-24
  • Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

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