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Paul Sandby and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn revisited

03/2025 | 1464 | 167

Pages: 258–61

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Author:

Fairclough, Oliver (Fairclough, Oliver)

Subjects

artists:

Sandby, Paul

buildings:

Wales

dates:

1770-1779

museums and institutions:

National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Great Britain

patrons:

Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Fourth Baronet, 1749-1789

subjects:

Patrons / Patronage / Aquatints / Gouaches / Topographical views / British art

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Bala in the county of Merioneth: A rejoicing scene when Sir W.W. Wynn visited that place August 22 1771, by Paul Sandby. Bodycolour over pencil on linen, 18 by 26 cm. (Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Cardiff).

Attributed works:

2. The iron forge (incorrectly titled Aber Glaslyn in the county of Merioneth), by Paul Sandby. 1771. Bodycolour over pencil on paper, 18 by 26 cm. (Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Cardiff).

Attributed works:

3. The iron forge between Dolgelli and Barmouth in Merioneth Shire, from XII Views in North Wales, by Paul Sandby. 1776. Aquatint on paper, 29 by 38 cm. (Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Cardiff).

Attributed works:

4. Waterfall at Tanberis North Wales, by Paul Sandby. 1771. Bodycolour over pencil on paper, 18 by 26 cm. (Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Cardiff).

Attributed works:

5. Detail of Fig.1, showing Sir William- Wynn and his party arriving in Bala.

Article

Newly attributed drawings by Botticelli

04/2023 | 1441 | 165

Pages: 358-365

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Author:

Rinaldi, Furio (Rinaldi, Furio)

Subjects

artists:

Botticelli, Sandro

dates:

1470-1479 / 1480-1489 / 1480-1519

media:

Silverpoints / Gouaches

subjects:

Italian art / Renaissance art / Florentine art / Drawings / Attributions / Figure studies / Studies (visual works) / Life drawings / Workshops (Organisations)

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Study for a standing man (St Sebastian), by Sandro Botticelli. c.1473–74. Metalpoint (silver?) and white gouache on ochre prepared paper, 18.4 by 9.3 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Attributed works:

10. Detail of Fig.12, showing the face of the third onlooker on the right.

Attributed works:

11. Head of a man in near profile looking left, here attributed to Sandro Botticelli. c.1468–70. Traces of black chalk, metalpoint (lead?) heightened with white and grey wash, on yellow-ochre prepared paper, 13.2 by 11 cm. (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford).

Attributed works:

12. Adoration of the Magi, by Sandro Botticelli, showing the face of an onlooker. c.1470–75. Tempera and oil on poplar panel, 68 by 102 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

Attributed works:

13. Head of a veiled woman, by Fra Filippo Lippi. c.1452. Silverpoint and white gouache, retouched with pen and brown ink and red chalk, on ochre-prepared paper, 30 by 20.5 cm. (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence).

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2. Study of two standing figures and a right hand, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1475. Silverpoint and white gouache on mauve-lilac prepared paper, 16.5 by 10 cm. (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille).

Attributed works:

3. Two partial studies of a profile, here attributed to Sandro Botticelli. c.1475. Metalpoint (lead?) and white gouache on yellowochre prepared paper, 18.9 by 7.1 cm. (Gabinetto dei Disegni e Stampe delle Uffizi, Florence).

Attributed works:

4. Detail of the Cestello Annunciation, by Sandro Botticelli, showing the face of the Archangel Gabriel. 1489. Tempera on panel, 150 by 156 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).

Attributed works:

5. Standing man turned to the right, here attributed to Sandro Botticelli. c.1475. Metalpoint (lead?) and white gouache on yellow-ochre prepared paper, 18.9 by 7.1 cm. (recto of Fig.3). (Gabinetto dei Disegni e Stampe delle Uffizi, Florence).

Attributed works:

6. Study for a standing draped figure turned to the left, by Sandro Botticelli. Metalpoint (lead?) and white gouache on ochre prepared paper, 18.3 by 8.3 cm. (© RMN-Grand Palais; Musée du Louvre; Stéphane Maréchalle).

Attributed works:

7. Virgin and Child with the young St John the Baptist, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1468–70. Tempera and gold on poplar panel, 90.7 by 67 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Tarker; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

8. Head of a woman looking down to the left, here attributed to Sandro Botticelli. c.1468–70. Metalpoint (lead?) heightened with white and light grey wash on yellow-ochre prepared paper, 13.4 by 10.7 cm. (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford).

Attributed works:

9. Detail of Fig.7, showing the face of the Virgin.

Article

Picasso’s ‘Faun musician’: revealing the making, contextualising the meaning

03/2022 | 1428 | 164

Pages: 246-253

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Author:

Andral, Jean-Louis (Andral, Jean-Louis)

Author:

Casadio, Francesca (Casadio, Francesca)

Author:

Dahm, Kristi (Dahm, Kristi)

Subjects

artists:

Picasso, Pablo

dates:

1940-1949

museums and institutions:

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States

sources:

Petrarca, Francesco / Aragon, Louis

subjects:

Technical analysis / Scanning macro X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) spectroscopy / Infrared photography / overpainting / Gouaches / Iconography / Fauns / Flowers

subjects:

French art

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Detail of Fig.3.

Attributed works:

10. Infra-red reflectogram (IRR) composite image of Fig.3 (1.5-1.73 μm).

Attributed works:

11. Fig.10 with the black ink of the faun removed digitally, showing a vase of flowers beneath.

Attributed works:

12. Head, 6 June, 1947, by Pablo Picasso. 1947. Coloured crayon on the page opposite the colophon of the book Cinq sonnets de Pétrarque / avec une eau-forte de / Picasso / et les explications du traducteur, each page 33.4 by 25.7 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

2. Photomicrograph of The faun musician (bottom), showing orange and pink media from an earlier composition visible through losses in the uppermost black ink layer.

Attributed works:

3. The faun musician, by Pablo Picasso. 7th–11th June 1947. Brush and black ink and gouache on cream wove paper, folded, 32.7 by 50.2 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; © 2020 Estate of Pablo Picasso; DACS, London, 2022).

Attributed works:

4. Head of a woman – Françoise, by Pablo Picasso. 1945. Etching, aquatint and engraving on Arches wove paper, plate 13.9 by 11.9 cm., sheet (irreg.) 32 by 24.8 cm. (From Cinq Sonnets de Pétrarque, plate, fol.6.; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Scala; © 2020 Estate of Pablo Picasso; DACS, London, 2022).

Attributed works:

5. Vase with foliage and three sea urchins, by Pablo Picasso. 21st October 1946. Oleoresinous enamel paint and charcoal on paper mounted on reused canvas, 46 by 38 cm. (Musée Picasso, Antibes; © imageArt; photograph Claude Germain; © Succession Picasso 2022; DACS, London, 2022).

Attributed works:

6. The faun musician, by Pablo Picasso, open folio as it originally appeared as a frontispiece opposite the title page to Cinq Sonnets de Pétrarque. (© 2020 Estate of Pablo Picasso; DACS, London, 2022).

Attributed works:

7. Detail of a photograph by Michel Sima, showing ceramics and drawings by Pablo Picasso at the Atelier Madoura, Vallauris. 1948. (© Michel Sima Héritiers; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

8. MA-XRF composite map of Fig.3, showing Prussian blue crayon (blue), gouache media containing titanium white (red) and cerulean blue gouache (green).

Attributed works:

9. Raking-light image of the verso of Fig.3, flipped horizontally.

Exhibition Review

Toulouse-Lautrec: Resolutely Modern. Grand Palais, Paris

01/2020 | 1402 | 162

Pages: 64-67

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Reviewer:

Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)

Subjects

artists:

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de

dates:

2010-2019

media:

Posters / Photographs / Sketches / Drawings / Gouaches / Paintings

museums and institutions:

Grand Palais, Paris, France

places:

Paris

subjects:

French art / Models (people) / Portraits / Dancers / Prostitution / Comedians

Reviewed Items

subjects:

Toulouse-Lautrec: Resolutely Modern Grand Palais, Paris 9th October 2019–27th January | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

16. Yvette Guilbert singing Linger, Longer, Loo, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. 1894. Peinture à l’essence on cardboard, 58 by 44 cm. (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).

Attributed works:

17. In bed, by Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec. c.1892. Oil on cardboard, 53.5 by 70 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).

Exhibition Review

Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver

05/2019 | 1394 | 161

Pages: 414-416

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Reviewer:

Hearn, Karen (Hearn, Karen)

Subjects

artists:

Hilliard, Nicholas / Oliver, Isaac

dates:

2010-2019

media:

Gouaches / Watercolours

museums and institutions:

National Portrait Gallery, London, Great Britain

subjects:

British art / Elizabethan School / Jacobean / Portrait miniatures / Techniques / Pigments / Manuscripts / Sitters

Illustrations

Attributed works:

5. Francis Bacon, later Baron Verulam and Viscount St Alban, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1578. Watercolour and bodycolour with gold on vellum, laid on card, 6 by 4.7 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).

Attributed works:

6. Unknown woman with a jewelled hat, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1585. Watercolour and bodycolour with gold and silver on vellum, laid on a playing card with four diamonds visible on the reverse, 5.4 by 4.2 cm. (Portland Collection; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

7. Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, by Isaac Oliver. c.1596. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, laid on card, 6.5 by 5.2 cm. (Private collection; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).

Article

Edward Burne-Jones’s ‘St Francis’ for Father Damien

09/2018 | 1386 | 160

Pages: 745-749

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Author:

Schoenherr, Douglas E. (Schoenherr, Douglas E.)

Subjects

art literature:

Burne-Jones, Georgiana / Thirkell, Angela / Addington Symonds, John

artists:

Burne-Jones, Edward / Clifford, Edward C. / Solomon, Simeon / Giotto / Whitehead, Joseph

collectors and dealers:

Harris, Henry Blackwall

dates:

1850-1899

media:

Paintings / Drawings / Gouaches

media:

Paintings / Drawings / Gouaches / Watercolours

museums and institutions:

Saint Marianne Cope Shrine & Museum, Syracuse, United States / Damiaan Museum, Leuven, Belgium

places:

Great Britain / United States / Syracuse (United States) / Hawaii

subjects:

British painting / Travel / Lost works / Missionaries / Portraits / Sitters / Veuster, Damien de / Catholicism / Church of England / Franciscans / Religion / Leprosy / Gifts / Iconography / Christian iconography / Jesus Christ: Nativity / Francis of Assisi, Saint / Correspondence / Lectures

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Father Damien, by Edward Clifford. 1888. Watercolour and gouache on paper mounted on cardboard, 28 by 22 cm. (Damien Collection, Leuven).

Attributed works:

2. St Francis receiving the Stigmata, by Edward Burne-Jones. c.1887. Black chalk on paper, 30.5 by 23.5 cm. (British Museum, London).

Attributed works:

3. St Francis receiving the Stigmata, by Walker & Cockerell after Edward Burne-Jones. Photogravure, 15.6 by 10.3 cm. (From G. BurneJones, Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, London 1904, II, facing p.176).

Attributed works:

4. St Francis receiving the Stigmata, by Edward Burne-Jones. 1887. Gouache, umber and gold on board, 26.7 by 20 cm. (Saint Marianne Cope Shrine & Museum, Syracuse NY).

Attributed works:

5. St Francis, by Frederick Hollyer after Edward Burne-Jones. Photograph, 15.2 by 6.7 cm. (© Courtesy the Huntington Art Collections, San Marino, California).

Attributed works:

6. Father Damien, by Edward Clifford. 1888. Black chalk with wash on cardboard, 25.7 by 19.9 cm. (Damien Collection, Leuven).

Attributed works:

8. Father Damien the leper, by Edward Clifford. 1890. Watercolour and gouache on paper mounted on canvas mounted on panel, 53 by 66 cm. (Damien Collection, Leuven).

Western art unattributed:

7. Father Damien de Veuster in 1868, after Edward Clifford. Photogravure, 32.2 by 23.3 cm. (From E. Clifford: Father Damien: A Journey from Cashmere to his Home in Hawaii, London 1889, frontispiece).

Book Review

The End Again: Degeneration and Visual Culture in Modern Spain. By Oscar E. Vázquez

09/2018 | 1386 | 160

Pages: 804-805

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Reviewer:

Brauer, Fae (Brauer, Fae)

Subjects

art literature:

Darwin, Charles / Baudelaire, Charles / Engels, Friedrich

artists:

Fortuny y Carbó, Mariano José María Bernardo, 1838-1874 / Mani, Carles / Cabello Izarra, Segundo / Santa María Sedano, Marceliano / Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín / Rusiñol, Santiago / Regoyos, Dario de / Garnelo y Alda, José / García Sampedro, Luis / Picasso, Pablo / Gargallo, Pablo / Nonell, Isidre

dates:

1850-1899 / 1900-1949

media:

Paintings / Drawings / Gouaches / Photographs

places:

Spain

subjects:

Spanish painting / Spanish sculpture / Nationalism / Disease / Death / History paintings / Gender / Psychology / Race / Capitalism / Catholicism / Cultural history / Ethnology / Occult sciences / Science / Politics / Visual culture / Historiography / Criticism / Critical Reception / Modernism

Illustrations

Attributed works:

5. Degenerates, by Carles Mani. 1891–1904. Plaster, 20.5 by 37 by 22 cm. (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona).

Exhibition Review

Art Now: Lisa Brice. Tate Britain, London

08/2018 | 1385 | 160

Pages: 690-692

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Reviewer:

Bracewell, Michael (Bracewell, Michael)

Subjects

artists:

Brice, Lisa

dates:

2010-2019

media:

Paintings / Gouaches

museums and institutions:

Tate Britain, London, Great Britain

places:

Great Britain / London

subjects:

Orientalism / Film (cinema) / Colonialism / Race / Eroticism / Figurative art / Iconography

Illustrations

Attributed works:

34. Untitled, by Lisa Brice. 2018. Ink on giclée print on photo paper, 41.2 by 22.4 cm. (Courtesy the artist; © Lisa Brice; exh. Tate Britain, London).

Attributed works:

35. Between this and that, by Lisa Brice. 2017. Synthetic tempera, gesso and ink on canvas, 198 by 244 cm. (Private collection; © Lisa Brice; exh. Tate Britain, London).

Book Review

Henri Matisse. Cut-Outs. Drawing with Scissors

05/2011 | 1298 | 153

Pages: 337-338

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Author:

Cullinan, Nicholas (Cullinan, Nicholas)

Subjects

artists:

Matisse, Henri

dates:

1940-1949 / 1940-1959

print:

Matisse, Henri

subjects:

Cut-paper works / Gouaches / Art periodicals / Published illustrations / Calligraphy / French

Reviewed Items

subjects:

Henri Matisse. Cut-Outs. Drawing with Scissors | editor: Neret, Gilles , editor: Néret, Xavier-Gilles

Illustrations

Attributed works:

34. Mimosa, by Henri Matisse. 1949–51. Paper cut-out and gouache on canvas, 148 by 98 cm. (Ikeda Museum of Twentieth Century Art, Itoh, Japan).

Article

Works on paper by Rossetti, Burne-Jones and their contemporaries recently donated to Wightwick Manor

04/2011 | 1297 | 153

Pages: 232-240

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Author:

Spencer-Longhurst, Paul (Spencer-Longhurst, Paul)

Subjects

artists:

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

artists:

Burne-Jones, Edward

collectors and dealers:

Ayres, Thomas Hester

dates:

1850-1869

museums and institutions:

National Trust

museums and institutions:

Wightwick Manor, (National Trust), near Wolverhampton, Great Britain

print:

Pre-Raphaelite art

subjects:

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood / Pre-Raphaelite / Drawings / British / Donations / Gifts

subjects:

Collections, Public

subjects:

Pastels

subjects:

Watercolours / Gouaches

subjects:

Provenance

subjects:

Sales catalogues

Illustrations

Attributed works:

19. Thomas Hester Ayres. Carte-de-visite by Dickinson Brothers, 114 New Bond Street, London. Undated. Photograph, 10.2 by 6.2 cm. (National Trust Archive).

Attributed works:

20. Cavalier abducting a woman, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1852–53. Pen, ink and sepia, 24.8 by 16.8 cm. (National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton).

Attributed works:

21. Woman holding necklace and flower, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1867. Coloured chalks, 58.3 by 35.2 cm. (National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton).

Attributed works:

22. Woman with crossed arms, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1870. Coloured chalks, 54.1 by 41.1 cm. (National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton).

Attributed works:

23. Bust of a woman turned to the right, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1873. Coloured chalks, 50.7 by 37.3 cm. (National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton).

Attributed works:

24. Alexa Wilding holding an apple, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1866. Coloured chalks, 60.4 by 42.8 cm. (National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton).

Attributed works:

25. Alexa Wilding or Lucy Madox Brown, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1874. Coloured chalks, 54.1 by 41.1 cm. (National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton).

Attributed works:

26. Head of Maria Zambaco, by Edward Burne-Jones. 1866–69. Red chalk, diameter 27.5 cm. (National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton).

Attributed works:

27. Head of Augusta Jones, by Edward Burne-Jones. Mid- to late 1860s. Red chalk, 32 by 25 cm. (National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton).

Attributed works:

28. Study of a young woman, by Edward Burne-Jones. Mid-1860s. Red chalk, 52 by 41 cm. (National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton).

Attributed works:

29. Study of Maria Zambaco, by Edward Burne-Jones. 1866. Red chalk, 48 by 34 cm. (National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton).

Attributed works:

30. Study of a girl in a dress with puffed sleeves, by Edward Burne-Jones. 1866. Red, black and white chalk, 48 by 34 cm. (National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton).

Attributed works:

31. Fair Rosamund, by Henry Treffry Dunn. 1869. Watercolour and gouache, 48.6 by 38.5 cm. (National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton).

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