The Wrightsman Pictures
Title | The Wrightsman Pictures PDF eBook |
Author | Jayne Wrightsman |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 454 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1588391442 |
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.
Paintings and Drawings in the Wrightsman Collection
Title | Paintings and Drawings in the Wrightsman Collection PDF eBook |
Author | Everett Fahy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Drawing |
ISBN | 9780300107197 |
The Wrightsman Collection: Paintings, drawings, by Everett Fahy; Sculpture, by F. Watson
Title | The Wrightsman Collection: Paintings, drawings, by Everett Fahy; Sculpture, by F. Watson PDF eBook |
Author | Charles B. Wrightsman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The Wrightsman Collection. Vols. 1 and 2, Furniture, Gilt Bronze and Mounted Porcelain, Carpets
Title | The Wrightsman Collection. Vols. 1 and 2, Furniture, Gilt Bronze and Mounted Porcelain, Carpets PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 405 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Wrightsman Collection
Title | The Wrightsman Collection PDF eBook |
Author | Charles B. Wrightsman |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 478 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0870990128 |
Volume Five: This catalogue of a private collection includes works by such artists as Vermeer, Rubens, Renoir, La Tour, the Tiepolos, El Greco, Canaletto, and Van Dyck. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
The Wrightsman Collection, Vol. 5
Title | The Wrightsman Collection, Vol. 5 PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Wrightsman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 454 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The Wrightsman Collection
Title | The Wrightsman Collection PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Wrightsman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 454 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Considered to be without peer among American private collections of old masters, the Wrightsman Collection of paintings, drawings, and sculpture is here catalogued by two of the most distinguished authorities in the field and fully illustrated in black-and-white and color. Volume V completes the series, Volumes I and II having been devoted to furniture and gilt bronze; Volumes III and IV to snuffboxes, silver, porcelain, and other objects of decorative art. An introduction by John Walker, Director Emeritus of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., gives a fascinating history of the way in which the Wrightsman Collection has been built up and refined; Sir John Pope-Hennessy, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, provides an authoritative introduction to the sculpture section. Each entry includes a large-size illustration of the object (all the paintings are in full color) as well as many detailed views and comparable examples; the text is made up of a biography of the artist, physical description, provenance, and scholarly discussion, as well as a listing of other versions, exhibitions, references, and technical notes.