A Victorian obsession : the Pérez Simón collection at Leighton House Museum / [text, Véronique Gerard-Powell ; editor, Daniel Robbins ; translation, Laura Bennett].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gerard Powell, Véronique.

Robbins, Daniel.

Bennett, Laura (Translator)

Leighton House (London, England)

Musée Jacquemart-André (September 13, 2013-January 20, 2014 : Paris)

Chiostro di S. Maria della Pace (Rome, Italy) (February 15-June 5, 2014 : Rome)

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (June 23-October 5, 2014 : Madrid)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Pérez Simón, Juan Antonio--Art collections--Catalogs.

Pérez Simón, Juan Antonio.

Painting--Private collections--Exhibitions.

Painting.

Painting--Private collections.

Painting, Victorian--Great Britain--Exhibitions.

Painting, Victorian.

Collectors and collecting--Exhibitions.

Collectors and collecting.

Art museums.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

222 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 2014.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"A Victorian Obsession. The Pérez Simón collection at Leighton House Museum" presents over fifty two exceptional and rarely exhibited paintings by leading Victorian artists. The pictures all belong to the Mexican collector Juan Antonio Pérez Simón and form the largest private collection of Victorian art outside the UK. Six important pictures by Leighton himself have returned to the house in which they were first painted. Also on display are outstanding pictures by Albert Moore, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse, Edward Poynter, John Strudwick and John William Godward. These artists knew Leighton and were entertained at his house. The collection's highlight is Lawrence Alma-Tadema's magnificent 'The Roses of Heliogabalus', one of the most iconic images of Victorian art which is now exhibited in London for the first time since 1913.--http://www.rbkc.gov.uk.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, Sept. 13, 2013-Jan. 20, 2014 ; at Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Feb. 15-June 5, 2014 ; and at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, June 23-Oct. 5, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-214) and index.

ISBN:

0993105904

9780993105906

OCLC:

903039062