The Wrightsman Pictures

The Wrightsman Pictures
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 454
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ISBN-10 : 9781588391445
ISBN-13 : 1588391442
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Book Synopsis The Wrightsman Pictures by : Jayne Wrightsman

Download or read book The Wrightsman Pictures written by Jayne Wrightsman and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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