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Exhibition Review
Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 411-414
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Reviewer:
Cooke, Edward S. (Cooke, Edward S.)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, Great Britain / Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York, United States / Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States
subjects:
Majolica / Ceramics / Pottery / Earthenware / British art / American art / Minton Porcelain Factory / Wedgwood porcelain / Worcester Porcelain Factory
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 Edited by Susan Weber, with Catherine Arbuthnott, Jo Briggs, Eleanor Hughes, Earl Martin and Laura Microulis. 3 vols, 1,008 pp. incl. 1,200 col. + b. & w. ills. (Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, and the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2021), $300. ISBN 978–0–300–25104–3. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. Pedestal and jardinière, by George Jones & Sons, Stoke-on-Trent. Designed c.1880. Earthenware with majolica glazes and metal, height 112.9 cm. (English Collection).
Attributed works:
14. Peacock, designed by Paul Comoléra for Minton & Co. Designed c.1873, made 1876. Earthenware with majolica glazes, height 152 cm. (English Collection).
Attributed works:
15. ‘Japonica’ teaware and jugs, by D.F. Haynes & Co., Chesapeake Pottery, Baltimore. c.1882–86. Earthenware with majolica glazes, sugar bowl: 12.1 by 14.7 by 11 cm.; creamer: 9 by 12 by 10 cm.; teapot: 16 by 18.5 by 13 cm.; tall jug: 18.4 by 15 by 11 cm.; and small jug: 14 by 11 by 8.5 cm. (Private collection).
Article
The earliest known version of Madame de Pompadour's 'Suite d'Estampes' rediscovered
04/2017 | 1369 | 159
Pages: 285-289
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Author:
Wager, Susan M. (Wager, Susan M.)
Subjects
artists:
Poisson, Jeanne Antoinette, Marquise de Pompadour, 1721-1764
artists:
Guay, Jacques
dates:
1750-1759
museums and institutions:
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States
subjects:
Prints / Etchings / Engravings / Albums
subjects:
Gem carvings / Patronage / Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. Detail of the frontispiece for the Suite d'Estampes Gravées Par Madame La Marquise de Pompadour d'Après les Pierres gravées de Guay, Graveur du Roy, by Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour, after François Boucher. c.1755 (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)
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19. Detail of Génie de la musique en bas relief, by Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour, after François Boucher. c.1755 (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)
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20. L'Amour et l'Amitié from Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin: Livre des Saint-Aubin. c.1755 (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
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21. L'Amour sacrifiant à l'Amitié, from Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin: Livre des Saint-Aubin. c.1755 (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Attributed works:
22. Louis XV, by Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour, after François Boucher. c.1755 (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)
Attributed works:
23. Portfolio, by Louis Douceur. c.1755 (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)
Exhibition Review
Medieval European reliquaries. Cleveland, Baltimore and London
10/2011 | 1303 | 153
Pages: 683-684
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Reviewer:
Campbell, Marian (Campbell, Marian; C., M.)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain / Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States / Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States
places:
Baltimore / Cleveland / England / London / United States
print:
Reliquaries
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Reliquaries / European / Medieval
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Treasures of Heaven, saints, relics and devotion in medieval Europe | institution: British Museum , institution: Cleveland Museum of Art , institution: Walters Art Gallery
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
45. Reliquary bust of an unknown female saint, probably a companion of St Ursula. South Netherlands, c.1520–30. Painted and gilded oak, 42.4 cm. high. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
46. Reliquary bust of St Baudime. Auvergne, 1146–78. Copper gilt over a walnut core, ivory and horn, 73 by 43 by 46 cm. (Saint-Nectaire, Auvergne; exh. British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
47. Reliquary chasse of St Thomas Becket. English, c.1173–80. Silver gilt with niello and glass, 5.7 by 7 by 3.4 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
48. Holy thorn reliquary. Paris, c.1390–97. Gold, enamel and precious stones, 30.5 cm. high. (British Museum, London).
Article
The children in Veronese’s portraits of Iseppo and Livia da Porto
12/2009 | 1281 | 151
Pages: 816-818
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Author:
Salomon, Xavier F. (Salomon, Xavier F.)
Subjects
artists:
Veronese, Paolo
museums and institutions:
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States / Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Porto, Deidamia da / Porto, Iseppo da / Porto, Leonida da / Porto Thiene, Livia da
places:
United States / Italy / Florence / Baltimore
print:
Veronese, Paolo
subjects:
Children / Family portraits / Full-length portraits / Group portraits / Portraits / Identification
subjects:
Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Livia da Porto Thiene and her daughter Deidamia, by Paolo Veronese. 1552. Canvas, 208.4 by 121 cm. (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore).
Attributed works:
2. Iseppo da Porto and his son Leonida, by Paolo Veronese. 1552. Canvas, 207 by 137 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Collezione Contini Bonacossi, Florence).
Publication Received
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
05/2006 | 1238 | 148
Pages: 355
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Reviewer:
Cornelis, Bart (Cornelis, Bart; C., B.)
Subjects
dates:
1790-1799 / 1800-1899 / 1900-1919
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, United States / Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States / Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, United States
print:
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
print:
Degas, Edgar
subjects:
Drawings / French / Exhibitions / Exhibition catalogues / Collections, Public / Art market / Collecting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas | author: Fisher, Jay McKean , author: Johnston, William R. , author: Schenck, Kimberly , author: Snay, Cheryl K.
Editorial
Wonders at the Walters
01/2006 | 1234 | 148
Pages: 3
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Subjects
museums and institutions:
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
print:
Collections, Public / Baltimore / Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States
subjects:
Italian painting / Displays / Attributions
Exhibition Review
Stubbs and the horse. Fort Worth, Baltimore and London
05/2005 | 1226 | 147
Pages: 357-358
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Reviewer:
Postle, Martin (Postle, Martin)
Subjects
artists:
Stubbs, George
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States / National Gallery, London, Great Britain / Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, United States
places:
United States / London / Fort Worth / England / Baltimore
print:
Stubbs, George
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Stubbs and the Horse | institution: Baltimore Museum of Art , institution: Kimbell Art Museum , institution: National Gallery
Illustrations
Attributed works:
71. Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, by George Stubbs. 1765. 101 by 193 cm. (The Woolavington Collection, Cottesbrooke Hall, Northhamptonshire; exh. Walters Museum, Baltimore).
Attributed works:
72. Finished study for the 'Third Anatomical Table of the Muscles' in The Anatomy of the Horse (1776), by George Stubbs. c.1756-58. Graphite and black chalk, 36.5 by 50.5 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London; exh. Walters Art Museum, baltimore).
Attributed works:
73. Whistlejacket, by George Stubbs. c1762. 292 by 246.4 cm. (National Gallery, London; exh. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore).
Book Review
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, Volume III: Belgium, 1250-1530
04/1999 | 1153 | 141
Pages: 231-232
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Reviewer:
Reynolds, Catherine (Reynolds, Catherine; R., C.)
Subjects
dates:
1250-1299 / 1300-1499 / 1500-1529
museums and institutions:
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States
places:
Baltimore / United States
subjects:
Catalogues / Collections, Public / Manuscripts
subjects:
Belgian / Flemish / Netherlandish / French
subjects:
Miniatures (paintings)
subjects:
Illuminated manuscripts
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, Volume III: Belgium, 1250-1530 | author: Randall, Lilian M. C.
Exhibition Review
The Utrecht School. San Francisco, Baltimore and London
10/1998 | 1147 | 140
Pages: 705-707
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Reviewer:
Hecht, Peter (Hecht, Peter)
Subjects
dates:
1990-1999
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
museums and institutions:
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States
places:
England / London / United States / San Francisco / Baltimore
subjects:
Dutch painting / Exhibitions / Reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
40. Melancholy, by Hendrick Ter Brugghen. 1627-28. 67 by 46 cm. (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Exh. National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
41. St Sebastian Attended by St Irene, by Hendrick Ter Brugghen. 1625. 175 by 120 cm. (Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio; Exh. National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
42. St Sebastian, by Joachim Wtewael. 1600. 169.2 by 125.1 cm. (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Exh. National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
43. St Sebastian, by Gerard van Honthorst. 101 by 117 cm. (National Gallery, London)
Exhibition Review
Gothic Ivories. Detroit and Baltimore
08/1997 | 1133 | 139
Pages: 573-574
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Reviewer:
Wixom, William D. (Wixom, William D.)
Subjects
dates:
1990-1999
museums and institutions:
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States
museums and institutions:
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, United States
places:
Baltimore / Detroit / United States
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews / Ivories / Gothic (Medieval)
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
71. Gallery II of the Exhibition Devoted to 'Paris and the First Gothic Ivories', as Shown at Detroit.
Western art unattributed:
72. Angel of the Annunciation. Paris, c.1280-1300. Elephant Ivory with Traces of Polychromy and Gilding, 31.8 cm. High (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Exh. Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore).
Western art unattributed:
73. Enthroned Virgin and Child. Attributed Here to Westminster or London, c.1290-1300. Elephant Ivory with Dark Brown Stain, 27.3 cm. High (Cloisters Collection, Metropolitan Museum of art, New York; Exh. Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore).
Western art unattributed:
74. God the Father, from a Trinity Group. Burgundy, Late 14th or Early 15th Century. Elephant Ivory, 24.7 cm. High (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Exh. Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore).
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