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A fully illustrated, comprehensive, and scholarly catalogue of the
paintings in the Ashmolean Museum's collection by French artists
born between 1775 and 1875 The only complete catalogue of French
paintings of the period in the Ashmolean Museum, this comprehensive
and scholarly study explores their rich collection of
nineteenth-century French art. Continuing a convention set by
earlier Ashmolean catalogues that mirrors the concept of the long
nineteenth century, the book defines nineteenth-century French
artists as those born between 1775 and 1875. Stretching into the
twentieth century, it covers a fascinating range of paintings
including works by Louis-Leopold Boilly, Camille, Lucien, and Fe
lix Pissarro, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, Paul Ce zanne, Claude Monet, and Henri Matisse. The
catalogue was compiled by the late distinguished art historian Jon
Whiteley. In each entry, Whiteley draws upon his encyclopaedic
knowledge of French art and the Ashmolean holdings. Provenance,
literature, and exhibition history are recorded as well as
extensive technical notes and information on frames. The entries on
each work are accompanied by new, high-quality photography and
comparative images, resulting in a complete and thorough
documentation of this important part of the Ashmolean collection of
Western art, providing an informative contribution to existing
scholarship. Distributed for Modern Art Press
The collection of drawings in the Ashmolean is one of the greatest
treasures of the University of Oxford. It began spectacularly in
1843 when a group of drawings by Raphael and Michelangelo that had
previously belonged to the portrait painter, Sir Thomas Lawrence,
was bought by subscription. Lawrence's collection was one of the
greatest collections of Old Master drawings ever assembled and its
dispersal was much regretted. The Raphaels and Michelangelos,
however, were the jewels in its crown. Following their arrival in
Oxford, their fame attracted a number of gifts and bequests of
drawings and watercolours by Durer, Claude Lorraine, Brueghel, J.
M. W Turner, Henry Moore and many others. This is a story not only
of Old Masters but of benefactors - Francis Douce, Chambers Hall,
John Ruskin and their successors - whose different tastes account
for the variety of the drawings in the modern Print Room. It is a
story also of the curators who bought them. In particular, it is
the story of Sir Karl Parker who arrived at the museum in 1934 and
left a collection when he retired in 1962 that comprehensively
covered the history of the art of drawing in Europe from its
origins to the present day. The exhibition, Master Drawings:
Michelangelo to Moore, celebrates this history. It includes many of
the finest drawings in Oxford, representing the work of many
different artists: Raphael and Michelangelo; Durer and the artists
of the Northern Renaissance; Guercino and Rubens; Boucher and
Tiepolo; German Romantics; J. M. W. Turner; Degas and Pissarro; the
artists of the Ballets Russes; British twentieth-century artists
from Gwen John to Hockney; and much else.
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