Research Catalog

Title

Favorite old master paintings from the Louvre Museum, Paris / introd. and commentaries by Michel Laclotte, additional commentaries by Jean-Pierre Cuzin.

Author

Musée du Louvre.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Abbeville Press, ©1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laclotte, Michel.
• Cuzin, Jean-Pierre, 1944-

Description

156 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

• In this volume, the Louvre's most treasured masterpieces are illustrated in full color, selected and described by Michel Laclotte, Chief Curator of Painting at the Louvre and one of the world's foremost experts in European art. - Jacket flap.
• Among the major museums of the world there are certainly others that own more complete series of this or that school, more significant masterpieces by this or that artist, but there are few that provide quite as varied a representation of European painting from Cimabue to the nineteenth century. Such diversity derives both from the history of the museum and from the manner in which its collections were established, and it distinguishes the Louvre from among the other great museums. - Introduction.

Subjects

• Painting > France > Paris
• Musée du Louvre

Contents

Madonna and child enthroned with angels / Cimabue -- Saint Francis altarpiece / Giotto di Bondone -- Portrait of Ginevra d'Este / Antonio Pisanello -- Coronation of the virgin / Fra Angelico -- Battle of San Romano / Paolo Uccello -- Crucifixion / Andrea Mantegna -- Christ blessing / Giovanni Bellini -- Portrait of a man / Antonello da Messina -- Venus and the graces / Sandro Botticelli -- Portrait of Mona Lisa / Leonardo Da Vinci -- Virgin and child with Saint Anne / Leonardo Da Vinci -- La belle jardinière / Raphael -- Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione / Raphael -- Concert Champêtre / Titian -- Entombment of Christ / Titian -- Sleeping Venus / Correggio -- Pietà / Rosso Fiorentino -- The marriage at Cana / Paolo Veronese -- Paradise / Jacopo Tintoretto -- Fishing / Annibale Carracci -- The death of the virgin / Michelangelo Caravaggio -- The doge returning from the Lido / Francesco Guardi -- Madonna with Chancellor Rolin / Jan Van Eyck -- Braque Triptych / Rogier Van Der Weyden -- The raising of Lazarus / Geertgen Tot Sint Jans -- Moneychanger and his wife / Quentin Massys -- The ship of fools / Hieronymus Bosch -- The cripples / Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- Flemish Kermesse / Peter Paul Rubens -- The arrival of Marie de Médicis at Marseilles / Peter Paul Rubens -- Portrait of Charles I / Anthony Van Dyck -- The four evangelists / Jacob Jordaens -- La Bohémienne / Frans Hals -- Bathsheba / Rembrandt Van Rijn -- Le coup de soleil / Jacob Van Ruisdael -- The lacemaker / Jan Vermeer -- The drinker / Pieter de Hooch -- Descent from the cross / Master of Saint Bartholomew -- Self-portrait / Albrecht Dürer -- Portrait of Erasmus / Hans Holbein the Younger -- Crucifixion with two donors / El Greco -- Funeral of Saint Bonaventure / Francisco De Zurbarán -- The adoration of the shepherds / Jusepe Ribera -- The young beggar / Bartolomé Esteban Murillo -- Portrait of Condesa del Carpio / Francisco de Goya -- Portrait of Lady Alston / Thomas Gainsborough -- Portrait of the artist's mother / James McNeill Whistler -- Pietà / Jean Malouel -- Portrait of Charles VII / Jean Fouquet -- Pietá of Villeneuve-lés-Avignon / Enguerrand Quarton -- Saint Mary Magdalen and a female donor / Master of Moulins -- Portrait of Pierre Quthe / François Clouet -- Le tricheur / Georges de la Tour -- Peasant family / Antoine and Louis le Nain -- The poet's inspiration / Nicolas Poussin -- Autumn / Nicolas Poussin -- Cleopatra disembarking at Tarsus / Claude Lorrain -- Ex-voto of 1662 / Philippe de Champaigne -- Chancellor Séguier / Charles Le Brun -- Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera / Antoine Watteau -- La pourvoyeuse / Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin -- Breakfast / François Boucher -- Bathers / Jean-Honoré Fragonard -- The Sabine women / Jacques-Louis David -- Bonaparte visiting the plague-striken at Jaffa / Antoine-Jean Gros -- The raft of the Medusa / Théodore Géricault -- July 28 : Liberty leading the people / Eugène Delacroix -- The death of Sardanapalus / Eugène Delacroix -- The Turkish bath / Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -- The painter's studio / Gustave Courbet -- The gleaners / Jean-François Millet -- The washerwoman / Honoré Daumier -- Interior of Sens Cathedral / Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

ISBN

• 0896590658
• 9780896590656

LCCN

79064988

OCLC

• ocm07203062
• 7203062
• SCSB-9673789

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library