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Book Review
A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 208–209
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Reviewer:
Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)
Subjects
subjects:
Arcadia (pastoral) / Renaissance art / Poetry / Literature / Classical literature / Iconography / Sixteenth-century / Seventeenth-century / Eighteenth-century art / Nineteenth-century art
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A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature By Paul Holberton. Two vols, 497 pp. and 468 pp., incl. 322 col. ills (Ad Ilissum, London, 2022), £80. ISBN 978–1–912168–25–5 and 978–1–912168–26–2. | :
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Attributed works:
1. Shepherd playing the flute and four shepherdesses, by Gerrit van Honthorst. 1632. Oil on canvas, 92 by 174.5 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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2. The chamber idyll, by Edward Calvert. 1831. Wood engraving, 4.3 by 7.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
Narrative Painting in Nineteenth-Century Europe
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1371–1372
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Reviewer:
McWilliam, Neil (McWilliam, Neil)
Subjects
subjects:
History paintings / Nineteenth-century art
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Narrative Painting in Nineteenth- Century Europe By Nina Lübbren. 240 pp. incl. 8 col. + 54 b. & w. ills. (Manchester University Press, 2023), £85. ISBN 978–1–5261–6857–3. | :
Illustrations
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4. Seni before Wallenstein’s corpse, by Karl Theodor von Piloty. 1855. Oil on canvas, 312 by 365 cm. (Neue Pinakothek, Munich).
Exhibition Review
Pastels: From Millet to Redon
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 790–792
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Reviewer:
Jones, Kimberly A. (Jones, Kimberly A.)
Subjects
artists:
Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875 / Degas, Edgar / Redon, Odilon / Cassatt, Mary / Blanche, Jacques-Emile / Fantin-Latour, Henri / Lévy-Dhurmer, Lucien / Lhermitte, Léon-Augustin / Mondrian, Piet / Morisot, Berthe
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Pastels
museums and institutions:
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
subjects:
French art / Nineteenth-century art
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subjects:
Pastels: From Millet to Redon Musée d’Orsay, Paris 14th March–2nd July | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
14. Portrait of a woman, by Jacques-Émile Blanche. 1887. Pastel on canvas, 129 by 64 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
15. Bouquet of daisies, by Jean-François Millet. c.1871–74. Pastel on beige paper laid on canvas fixed to a strainer, 68 by 83.5 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
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16. Going out to fish (Zuiderzee), by Piet Mondrian. c.1900. Pastel, watercolour and charcoal on paper, 60 by 100 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 31st March–10th September
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 654-657
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Belinda (Thomson, Belinda)
Subjects
artists:
Morisot, Berthe
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
French art / Impressionism / British art / Nineteenth-century art / Eighteenth-century art
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subjects:
Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 31st March–10th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight, by Berthe Morisot. 1875. Oil on canvas, 38 by 46 cm. (Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
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21. Winter, by Berthe Morisot. 1880. Oil on canvas, 74.9 by 61.6 cm. (Dallas Museum of Art; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
22. Mrs Mary Robinson, by George Romney. 1780–81. Oil on canvas, 75.7 by 63.2 cm. (Wallace Collection, London; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
Article
Nineteenth-century French paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1258-1263
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Author:
Clarke, Michael (Clarke, Michael)
Subjects
art literature:
Whiteley, Jon
art literature:
Catalogues
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
subjects:
Collections, Public / Nineteenth-century art / French painting / Acquisitions / Bequests / Gifts / Donations / Pissarro, Esther Bensusan
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Nineteenth-Century French Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum. By Jon Whiteley. 368 pp. with 200 colour ills. (Modern Art Press, London, 2022), £125. ISBN 978–1–9163474–2–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Fanny Claus, by Édouard Manet. 1868. Oil on canvas, 115.7 by 72.8 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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2. View of the Nile at Luxor, by Jean-Léon Gérôme. 1857. Oil on canvas laid on board, 16.5 by 28.7 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Head and shoulders of a girl holding a rose, by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux (called Dedreux-Dorcy). 1846. Oil on canvas, cut to an oval, 46 by 38 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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4. M. Bison, by Camille Corot. 1852. Oil on canvas, 32 by 25 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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5. Jean-Édouard Berthon, by Charles-Émile-Auguste Durand (called Carolus-Duran). 1870. Oil on canvas, 45 by 37 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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6. A windmill at Zaandam, by Claude Monet. 1871. Oil on canvas, 42 by 73.5 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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7. A view of buildings in a valley in the Île-de-France, by Paul Cezanne. c.1879–81. Oil on canvas, 45 by 54 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Exhibition Review
Wanderlust: Dutch Artists Abroad 1800–1900. Dordrechts Museum
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1282-1284
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Reviewer:
van der Meij, Lorenz (van der Meij, Lorenz)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Netherlands
places:
Italy / France / East Asia / Great Britain / Africa / Germany
subjects:
Dutch art / Nineteenth-century art / Travel
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Wanderlust: Dutch Artists Abroad 1800–1900 Dordrechts Museum 19th June 2022–8th January 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
24. Horses in the Meuse near Dinant, by Johannes Tavenraat. 1841. Oil on paper laid on board, 27.5 by 42 cm. (Dordrechts Museum).
Attributed works:
25. Neighbourhood in Brussels, by Jan Theodoor Kruseman. c.1857. Oil on canvas, 30 by 50 cm. (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; exh. Dordrechts Museum).
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26. Courtyard of a house in Cairo, by Willem de Famars Testas. 1881. Oil on canvas, 84 by 62 cm. (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam; exh. Dordrechts Museum).
Book Review
Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century: Historicism, Postmodernism, and Internationalism
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 941-942
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Reviewer:
Stocker, Mark (Stocker, Mark)
Subjects
subjects:
History paintings / Art history / Art historians / Conferences / Nineteenth-century art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century: Historicism, Postmodernism, and Internationalism Edited by Matthew C. Potter. 298 pp. incl. 9 col. + 63 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, New York and London, 2021), £36.99. ISBN 978–1–351–00416–9. | :
Book Review
Looking at Men: Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body. By Anthea Callen
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 698-699
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Reviewer:
Padiyar, Satish (Padiyar, Satish)
Subjects
dates:
Nineteenth-century art
subjects:
Anatomy / Nudes / Models (people) / Life drawings
subjects:
Gender / Gaze (art theory)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Looking at Men: Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body By Anthea Callen. 272 pp. incl. 212 col. + b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018), | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Study of a male nude, by Théodore Géricault. Oil on canvas, 64 by 81 cm. (Musée Bonnat, Bayonne).
Exhibition Review
The Western. Denver and Montreal
12/2017 | 1377 | 159
Pages: 1024-1025
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Reviewer:
Anfam, David (Anfam, David)
Subjects
dates:
Nineteenth-century art / Twentieth-century art
media:
Paintings / Photographs / Videos / Film (cinema) / Sculpture
styles:
American art
subjects:
The Western
subjects:
Far West (American frontier)
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subjects:
The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (previously at Denver Art Museum) | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
93. Film still from The Great Train Robbery, by Edwin S. Porter. 1903. (Edison Manufacturing Company; exh. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts).
Attributed works:
94. The last of his race (The vanishing American), by Frederic Remington. 1908 (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; exh. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts).
Attributed works:
95. Uncertain frontier, by Ed Ruscha. 1987 (Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; exh. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts).
Publication Received
Young America. Childhood in Nineteenth Century Art and Culture
10/2009 | 1279 | 151
Pages: 707
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Reviewer:
Hopcraft, Alice (Hopcraft, Alice)
Subjects
dates:
1830-1909 / 2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, United States
print:
Children
print:
Nineteenth-century art
subjects:
Children / Cultural history / Art history / Exhibitions / Women
subjects:
American (United States of America)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Young America. Childhood in Nineteenth Century Art and Culture | author: Perry, Claire
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