Research Catalog

Title

Mastery & elegance : two centuries of French drawings from the collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz / edited by Alvin L. Clark, Jr., with Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Jean-François Méjanès, William W. Robinson ; foreword by Pierre Rosenberg.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Art Museums, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Clark, Alvin L., Jr., 1962-
• Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, 1951-
• Robinson, William W.
• Méjanès, Jean-François.
• Horvitz, Jeffrey E.
• Harvard University. Art Museums

Description

492 p. : ill. (some col.); 30 cm.

Summary

• Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz is the catalogue of an exhibition that presents, for the first time, a selection from the most comprehensive private American collection of French old master drawings. The catalogue features 115 drawings by seventy artists, which range in date from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the early years of the nineteenth.
• The leading French artists of the period - Jacques-Charles Bellange, Jacques Callot, Simon Vouet, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, Francois Boucher, Jean-Honore Fragonard, and Jacques-Louis David - are all here, but the importance of the collection lies in its broad representation of the many brilliant draftsmen active during these two crucial centuries in the history of French art. The catalogue incorporates the results of years of research on these drawings and will make a significant contribution to this relatively unstudied field.

Alternative Title

• Mastery and elegance
• Two centuries of French drawings from the collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

Subject

• Horvitz, Jeffrey E. > Art collections > Exhibitions
• 1600-1799
• Drawing, French > Exhibitions
• Drawing > 17th century > France > Exhibitions
• Drawing > 18th century > France > Exhibitions
• Drawing > Private collections > United States > Exhibitions
• Drawing, French > 17th century > Exhibitions
• Drawing, French > 18th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Exhibition tour: Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 5 December 1998-31 January 1999 and 5 other museums through April, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-490).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Homage to a Collector & a Plea for Research / Pierre Rosenberg de l'Academie francaise 13 -- Academicism & Anti-Academicism: Drawing in France in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Alain Merot, Sophie Raux-Carpentier 25 -- On Some Collectors of Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in the United States / Marianne Roland Michel 53 -- An Interview with Jeffrey E. Horvitz / William W. Robinson, Alvin L. Clark, Jr. 77.

ISBN

• 1891771019 (hard : alk. paper)
• 1891771027 (soft : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98045920^

OCLC

• 40230160
• SCSB-10333797

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library