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The Essence of Line
Rarely seen drawings and watercolors by some of the most influential French artists of the nineteenth century are the subject of this richly illustrated publication from The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum. From revealing preparatory sketches to exquisite finished watercolors, more than 100 works by artists such as Eugene Delacroix, Honore Daumier, Paul Cezanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation. The BMA and the Walters have combined holdings of more than 900 French drawings from the nineteenth century, one of the nation's strongest and richest collections of French art from this period. The publication also inclu...
French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin
Accompanying an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art last fall and now at the Dahesh Museum in New York, this catalog focuses upon the French drawings in Muriel Butkin's highly specialized collection which she has promised to the Cleveland Museum. To assemble her diverse yet nicely integrated set of drawings, Butkin started buying 18th-century French drawings when they were affordable. In the mid-1970s, with the guidance of art historian Gabriel Weisberg, she expanded her collection to include 19th-century French drawings. These drawings were counter to the mainstream impressionist and postimpressionist taste of the time and focused more on academic French subject matter such as life dr...
French Satirical Drawings from "L'Assiette Au Beurre"
170 biting, original drawings (8 in full color) from rare French magazine, whose art staff possessed a rich style unsurpassed by any journal of its kind. Works by Steinlen, Cappiello, Caran d’Ache, Willette, Poulbot, Forain, Vallotton and Robida—as well as Juan Gris, Jacques Villon, Kees van Dongen and Frantisek Kupka.
Eighteenth-century French Drawings in New York Collections
Drawings by acknowledged masters and lesser-known artists and a broad range of subject matter characterize the one hundred sheets reproduced in this volume.
From Poussin to David
From poetic love stories to mythological epics; from painterly portrait studies to picturesque ruins _ the French world s of the Baroque and the Rococo have lost nothing of their fascination. 70 exquisite major works from the wealth of French artworks at the Albertina seduce the public with the dazzling and multi - faceted cosmos of French drawing. By means of im pressive examples the catalogue provides a varied insight into the diverse graphic means of expression during this age, in which France developed into the trend - setting nation in the field of art. The exhibition links together the most influential artists of the seventeenth century and the outstanding graphic artists of the eighteenth century. It shows not only Nicolas Poussin_s effective landscape studies but also Claude Lorrain_s light - filled portraits of nature. Virtuoso and elegant masterpieces by Franç ois Boucher and Jean - Honoré Fragonard are placed alongside the moralising genre scenes by Jean - Baptiste Greuze and an imposing creation by Jacques - Louis David
The Essence of Line
"Published on the occasion of an exhibition jointly organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum, this book presents a panorama of sketches, watercolors, and presentation drawings, many of them little known outside a small circle of experts. It is correlated with an online database of more than 900 nineteenth-century French drawings in the holdings of these Baltimore museums."--BOOK JACKET.
