British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875 Katharine Baetjer

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Baetjer, Katharine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

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

Painting, British--Catalogs.

Painting, British.

Pastel drawing, British--Catalogs.

Pastel drawing, British.

Painting--New York (State)--New York--Catalogs.

Painting.

Pastel drawing--New York (State)--New York--Catalogs.

Pastel drawing.

Painting, British--History.

Painters--Great Britain--History.

Painters.

New York (State)--New York.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Art criticism

Catalogs

Collection catalogs

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art New Haven Yale University Press [2009]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

Covering the period between the late 16th century through to the third quarter of the 19th century, this book features paintings by English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish artists which are part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

"This volume, the first catalogue ever published of the Metropolitan Museum's British paintings, contains 140 works by English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish artists as well as by a few others who were foreign-born but who worked primarily in England ... The preponderance are portraits, although there are also genre scenes, landscapes, and subjects drawn from the Bible and mythology. Ranging in date from 1572 to 1868, the portraits offer a particularly intriguing look at English society during the eighteenth century. All the world-renowned British portraitists--Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, Sir Thomas Lawrence--are represented, along with such additional masters of the genre as Robert Peake the Elder, Sir Peter Lely, Sir Henry Raeburn, and John Hoppner. Among the many other notable paintings in the collection are an early conversation piece by William Hogarth, a study of a horse by George Stubbs, a whaling scene and a Venetian cityscape by J. M. W. Turner, two landscapes and a portrait by John Constable, and important works by the Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones"

"Brief biographies of the artists are followed by full-page color illustrations of the paintings, each of which is completely documented with provenance, major exhibitions, and significant published sources. The entry texts discuss the subject of the painting as well as the life of the sitter if a portrait; the extant records pertaining to its execution; relevant scholarly opinions (including issues of attribution); and its current physical condition ... The catalogued works, almost all newly photographed for this publication, are supplemented by an unusually generous selection of comparative illustrations. These 220 images--pendants, other related paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and X-radiographs--have been carefully chosen to illuminate and augment the text"--Metropolitan Museum of Art website, viewed November 17, 2022

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875

OCLC:

691241837