Claude Monet is one of the most enduringly popular artists of the modern period. In this book, which features 37 works from the holdings at the Art Institute of Chicago--which possesses one of the world's largest and finest collections of Monet's art--a Monet scholar and painter leads readers to a fresh view of a group of well-known masterpieces. 60 illustrations, 42 in color.
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This handsome and scholarly volume follows on from the first in a series. . . . It has the same clear and friendly layout of text, and its colour plates are very finely reproduced. . . . A pleasure to browse through. (The Times Literary Supplement )
The definitive. . . scholarly record of the collection, it should stand for some time. (Choice ) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
The definitive. . . scholarly record of the collection, it should stand for some time. (Choice ) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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The second in a series of scholarly catalogs on the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, this volume focuses on the museum's important holdings of French and British paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The catalog contains comprehensive entries on close to one hundred paintings, representing the full range of artistic production (portraiture, landscape, still life, genre, and history painting) in France and Britain during this period. Featured are major works by some of the most significant artists of the time: Jacques Louis David, Jean Honore Fragonard, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, and Jean Antoine Watteau among the French; Henry Fuseli, Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Benjamin West among the British.
Each painting in the catalog is accompanied by complete and uptodate documentation, including a detailed description of physical condition, a fully documented provenance, and a critical discussion of attribution, date, subject, and function, as well as a summary of earlier scholarship. Many of these works are little published and some are published here for the first time. Fortyone works are reproduced in color, the rest in duotone; there are also 101 comparative illustrations. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Saw this book for less than 4 $ used this is one of the truley great buys on Amazon . Large books 10.5 x 13 aprox 304 pages several fold outs one the Waterlilly brings the picture out to 25 inches X 4 1/2 format makes you want to go see the real one at Musee de I'Orangerie even the architectural drawing of it are in the book . I read this book from cover to cover . I even bought a second copy .
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