Over the past decade one of the most important and comprehensive private American collections of early French drawings has been assembled. This volume presents a selection of 115 works dating from the early 17th century to the early 19th century by approximately 70 artists. In addition to remarkable drawings by well-known draftsmen such as Poussin, Lorrain, Watteau, Fragonard, and David, the book includes superb examples of the work of lesser-known figures. Mastery and Elegance has been written by a team of 35 ...
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Over the past decade one of the most important and comprehensive private American collections of early French drawings has been assembled. This volume presents a selection of 115 works dating from the early 17th century to the early 19th century by approximately 70 artists. In addition to remarkable drawings by well-known draftsmen such as Poussin, Lorrain, Watteau, Fragonard, and David, the book includes superb examples of the work of lesser-known figures. Mastery and Elegance has been written by a team of 35 international scholars. It accompanies an exhibition traveling to Toronto, Paris, Edinburgh, New York, and Los Angeles.
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VG+ Slate blue wraps with duo-tone cover illustration and gold lettering; 492 pp. with 115 catalogue plates and numerous additional figures. Contents as follows: Homage to a Collector & a Plea for Research / Pierre Rosenberg de l'Academie francaise 13--Academicism & Anti-Academicism: Drawing in France in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Alain Merot, Sophie Raux-Carpentier 25--On Some Collectors of Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in the United States / Marianne Roland Michel 53--An Interview with Jeffrey E. Horvitz / William W. Robinson, Alvin L. Clark, Jr. 77. Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz is the catalogue of an exhibition that presents, for the first time, a selection from the most comprehensive private American collection of French old master drawings. The catalogue features 115 drawings by seventy artists, which range in date from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the early years of the nineteenth. The leading French artists of the period-Jacques-Charles Bellange, Jacques Callot, Simon Vouet, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, Francois Boucher, Jean-Honore Fragonard, and Jacques-Louis David-are all here, but the importance of the collection lies in its broad representation of the many brilliant draftsmen active during these two crucial centuries in the history of French art. The catalogue incorporates the results of years of research on these drawings and will make a significant contribution to this relatively unstudied field.
