Splendid legacy : the Havemeyer collection / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen ... [et al.] ; with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney.

Ainsworth, Maryan W.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Havemeyer, Henry Osborne, 1847-1907--Art collections--Exhibitions.

Havemeyer, Henry Osborne.

Havemeyer, Louisine Waldron Elder--Art collections--Exhibitions.

Havemeyer, Louisine Waldron Elder.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Exhibitions.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Catalogs.

Art--Private collections--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions.

Art.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

xvi, 415 p. : ill. (some col.), port. ; 32 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993.

Contents:

Director's Foreword / Philippe De Montebello

Acknowledgments / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and Gary Tinterow

The Havemeyer Pictures / Gary Tinterow. Van der Goes, Portrait of a Man / Maryan W. Ainsworth. Cranach, Portrait of a Man with a Rosary / Maryan W. Ainsworth. Veronese, Boy with a Greyhound / Keith Christiansen. Bronzino, Portrait of a Young Man / Keith Christiansen. A Portrait and a Landscape by El Greco of Toledo / Katharine Baetjer. The Havemeyer Rembrandts / Walter Liedtke. Rembrandt, A Cottage Among Trees / Helen B. Mules. Rembrandt, Portrait of Thomas Jacobsz. Haaringh / Janet S. Byrne. Rembrandt, Christ with the Sick Around Him, Receiving Little Children / Janet S. Byrne. Rembrandt, Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages Beside a Road / Janet S. Byrne. The Havemeyers and Antoine-Louis Barye / Clare Vincent. Daumier, The Connoisseur / Colta Ives. Daumier, A Man Reading in a Garden / Colta Ives. Chase, Azaleas (Vase of Flowers) / H. Barbara Weinberg. The Havemeyers and the Degas Bronzes / Clare Vincent. Degas, A Girl Putting on Her Stocking / Colta Ives. Degas, Actresses in Their Dressing Rooms / Colta Ives. Cassatt, Helene of Septeuil / Colta Ives.

Four Pastels of Havemeyer Women: Louisine, Electra, Adaline / H. Barbara Weinberg

The Suffrage Exhibition of 1915 / Rebecca A. Rabinow

The Forgotten Legacy: The Havemeyers' Collection of Decorative Arts / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen. Face of a Pharaoh / Dorothea Arnold. Statuette of Khnumhotep / Dorothea Arnold. Roman Glass and Lead-Glazed Pottery / Joan R. Mertens. Helmet / Joan R. Mertens. Carved Ceramics from the Arab World / Marilyn Jenkins. Luster-Painted Pottery / Marilyn Jenkins. Carpet with a Compartment Design / Daniel Walker. Favrile Glass / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen

The Other Havemeyer Passion: Collecting Asian Art / Julia Meech. Japanese and Chinese Tea Ceramics / Barbara B. Ford. Utamaro, A Mother Bathing Her Son / Hiroshi Onishi. Japanese Swords and Sword Fittings / Morihiro Ogawa. The Life of Prince Shotoku / Hiroshi Onishi. The Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha (Chijang Posal) / Hyung-Min Chung. Spring, A Japanese Screen / Barbara B. Ford. Japanese Lacquers / Barbara B. Ford. Dragons and Landscape / Maxwell K. Hearn. Incense Box / James C.Y. Watt. Ritual Wine Vessel (Hu) / James H. Frantz. A Group of Incense Burners / James C.Y. Watt. Covered Ewer / Suzanne G. Valenstein.

Notes:

"This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition ... held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 27 to June 20, 1993"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-389) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Mrs. Fenton Keyes.

ISBN:

0870996649

0870996657 (pbk.)

OCLC:

27266522