Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection

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Название: Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection

Издатель: Metropolitan Museum of Art; 1st Ed. edition

Автор: Colta Ives is Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Elizabeth E. Barker is Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Год: 2000

Страниц: 264

Формат: pdf

Язык: English

Размер: 40.98 MB

ISBN: 978-0300085112

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Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection

В данной публикации представлены сто пятнадцать рисунков и картин из фондов Карен Б. Коэн, таких мастеров как: Жерико, Коро, Руссо, Couture, Добиньи, Делакруа и мн.др.

This publication presents one hundred and fifteen drawings and paintings from the holdings of Karen B. Cohen, a noted New York collector.

These French and English nineteenth-century works include landscapes, portraits, figure compositions, and still lifes by great artists of the Romantic period, of the Barbizon School, and of the Realist School, beginning with Prud'hon and ending with Seurat.

A varied range of compositions by such masters as Gericault, Corot, Rousseau, Couture, Daubigny, and especially Delacroix is included. Among the highlights is a group of oil paintings by Courbet—both landscapes and portraits—and a series of cloud studies by Constable. Because these pictures have been held for so long in private hands, most are little known today, despite the fact that they were made by noted masters. Many are published here for the first time, often with comparative illustrations.

Colta Ives conceived this publication and is its main author. She provides documentation and commentary for each work, placing it within the context of the artist's development and connecting it to contemporary artistic trends and innovations. Elizabeth E. Barker has contributed entries on Constable and Bonington.

The character of the images assembled is remarkable, reflecting the collector's personal response to the turbulent dramas of the Romantics, the fresh discovery of landscape by French and English painters of the School of Nature, and the somber realism of Courbet and his followers. Nearly all the artists represented were alternately damned and praised for their modernity, for they were eager to present the natural world in as vivid a way as possible. Their sensitive treatment of nature and of human life, frequently in a fluid, cursory style, was intended to elicit a heightened response from the viewer. For the most part ancient history and myth were left behind for the immediacy of the present. Romanticism and the School of Nature is also the story of an exceptional collector and her independent discoveries.

Director's Foreword

Philippe de Montebello

Preface

Colta Ives

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Catalogue

Colta Ives with entries by Elizabeth E. Barker on John Constable and Richard Parkes Bonington

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon 1758–1823

Louis-Léopold Boilly 1761–1845

François, Baron Gérard 1770–1835

Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros 1771–1835

Pierre, Baron Guérin 1774–1833

François-Marius Granet 1775–1849

John Constable, R.A. 1776–1837

Jules-Robert Auguste 1789–1850

Théodore Gericault 1791–1824

Augustin Enfantin 1793–1827

Camille Corot 1796–1875

Théodore Caruelle D'aligny 1798–1863

Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863

Richard Parkes Bonington 1802–1828

Victor Hugo 1802–1885

Paul Huet 1803–1869

Denis-Auguste Raffet 1804–1860

Jacques-Raymond Brascassat 1804–1867

Alexandre Desgoffe 1805–1882

Narcisse Diaz 1807–1876

Léon Riesner 1808–1878

Théodore Rousseau 1812–1867

Thomas Couture 1815–1879

Ernest Meissonier 1815–1891

Adolf von Menzel 1815–1905

Charles-François Daubigny 1817–1878

François Bonvin 1817–1887

Théodore Chassériau 1819–1856

Gustave Courbet 1819–1877

Jules Breton 1827–1906

Edgar Degas 1834–1917

Henri Fantin-Latour 1836–1904

Odilon Redon 1840–1916

Georges Seurat 1859–1891

Antoine Bourdelle 1861–1929

Works Cited

Index of Artists