The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol.II – 15th to 18th Century European Paintings – France, Central Europe: Fifteenth- ... COLLECTION IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART) - Hardcover

Sterling, Charles; Ainsworth, Maryan W.; Talbot, Charles; Wolff, Martha; Haverkamp–begem, Egbert

9780691006987: The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol.II – 15th to 18th Century European Paintings – France, Central Europe: Fifteenth- ... COLLECTION IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART)

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ISBN 10: 0691006989 ISBN 13: 9780691006987

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1999

In this volume, forty-two remarkable paintings collected by Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, are discussed at length in light of recent technical and art historical research. This is the eighth in a projected series of sixteen volumes that will catalogue the entire Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. Among the works catalogued here are Petrus Christus's Goldsmith in His Shop of 1449, which is justly famous as one of the first northern European paintings to depict everyday life, and Hans Memling's Portrait of a Young Man (ca. 1475-80), in which the sitter is posed before a landscape, a formula that had lasting repercussions in Italian as well as Northern art. Also included is Memling's Annunciation, one of his finest and most original works. Well-known paintings by Simon Marmion, Jean Hey, Gerard David, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Younger, Hans Holbein, Gerard Terborch, Pieter de Hooch, Rembrandt, and El Greco all represent in their own way the best of the era and place in which they were created, as do masterful portraits by Francisco de Goya, George Romney, and Sir Henry Raeburn. All the paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection are reproduced in full color, supplemented by numerous comparative duotone illustrations.

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Review:

Talbot and his pictures stand out in long-overdue relief. -- Art on Paper

Talbot and his pictures stand out in long-overdue relief. -- Ben Lifson, Art on Paper

Talbot and his pictures stand out in longoverdue relief. -- Ben Lifson, Art on Paper

About the Author:

The late Charles Sterling was Curator, Mus e du Louvre, and Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Maryan W. Ainsworth is Senior Research Fellow, Paintings Conservation Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Charles Talbot is Alice Pratt Brown Distinguished Professor of Art History, Trinity University, San Antonio. Martha Wolff is Curator of European Painting Before 1750, Art Institute of Chicago. Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann is John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Jonathan Brown is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. John Hayes was formerly Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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