Issue contents
Editorial
A desert folly
Articles
Watteau's 'Shopsign': the long creation of a
masterpiece
by
CHRISTOPH MARTIN VOGTHERR and EVA WENDERS DE CALISSE
Fragonard in Naples: two rediscovered drawings
by PERRIN STEIN
The Salon des Refusés of 1863: a new view
by JULIET WILSON-BAREAU
Shorter notices
A view from below: a still life at the Salon des Refusés
by LESLEY STEVENSON
'Mon tableau de genre': Degas's 'Le Viol' and Gavarni's 'Lorette'
by FELIX KRÄMER
Real light on Impressionism? An overlooked review from 1879
by ED LILLEY
Obituary
Robert Rosenblum (1927-2006)
by KENNETH SILVER
Book reviews
The Formation of Chinese Civilization.
An Archaeological Perspective, ed. S. Allan
by ROSE KERR
Carlo Crivelli, R. Lightbown
by RICHARD STEMP
IL Giovane Caravaggio in Lombardia, G. Berra
by HELEN LANGDON
Peinture italienne: musée du Petit Palais Avignon, M. Laclotte and E. Moench
by WILLIAM MOSTYN-OWEN
Dessins toscans XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, tome II - 1620-1800, C. Monbeig Goguel
by JULIAN BROOKS
Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, N. Jeffares
by RENA M. HOISINGTON
Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum. Volume I, R.R. Bretell and S.F. Eisenman
by CHRISTOPHER LLOYD
Matisse-Derain: La Vérité du fauvisme, R. Labrusse and J. Munck
Matisse-Derain: Collioure 1905, un été fauve, J. Matamoros, D. Szymusiak, J, Flam, J. Klein, C. Giraudon, A. Billard, A. Ayats and C. Grammont
Matisse and the Subject of Modernism, A. Wright
by JOHN HOUSE
Exhibition reviews
Hogarth
by DAVID BINDMAN
The Unknown Monet
by JOHN HOUSE
Renoir
by CHRISTOPHER LLOYD
Twentieth-century British art
by JAMES BEECHEY
Jacques Stella
by HUMPHREY WINE
Conrat Meit
by NORBERT JOPEK
Dutch painting 1670-1750
by BART CORNELIS
Tintoretto
by PAUL HILLS
Nicolaes Berchem
by GUIDO M.C. JANSEN
Claude Lorrain
by TIMOTHY J. STANDRING
Bruce Nauman
by LYNNE COOKE
In next month's issue
Next month's issue is devoted to the decorative arts and sculpture, with articles on:
Tapestry designs by Jordaens
Chinoiserie at Buckingham Palace
Duveen and the decorators
Charles Duron and the Exposition universelle, 1867
Acquisitions at the Detroit Institute of Arts