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Exhibition Review
Dürer to Van Dyck: Drawings from Chatsworth House
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 172–175
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Reviewer:
Horbatsch, Olenka (Horbatsch, Olenka)
Subjects
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul / Dyck, Anthony van / Rembrandt van Rijn / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Dürer, Albrecht / Gossaert, Jan / Goltzius, Hendrick / Savery, Roelant / Hollar, Wenceslaus
dates:
1500-1599 / 1600-1649 / 2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Chatsworth, Derbyshire, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Great Britain
subjects:
German art / Dutch art / Flemish art / Drawings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Dürer to Van Dyck: Drawings from Chatsworth House Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 9th November 2024–23rd February 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Arcadian landscape, by Hendrick Goltzius. 1593. Pen and black ink, 35.7 by 46.8 cm. (Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; exh. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh).
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11. A dying tree, its trunk covered in brambles, beside a fence, by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1618. Pen, brown ink, red and black chalk and watercolour, 35.2 by 29.8 cm. (Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; exh. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh).
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12. View of the Amsteldijk at Meerzhuizen, looking towards the little windmill, by Rembrandt. c.1648–50. Pen, brown ink and brown wash with watercolour on paper prepared with brown wash, 13 by 21.2 cm. (Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; exh. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh).
Article
Holbein in exhibitions in Frankfurt and London
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 166–170
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Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
Subjects
artists:
Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Holbein, Hans the Elder, ca.1465-1524 / Burgkmair, Hans, the elder
artists:
Holbein, Ambrosius / Hilliard, Nicholas / Eyck, Jan van
dates:
1500-1549
museums and institutions:
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany / Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, Great Britain
subjects:
German painting / British painting / Tudor / Courts (social groups) / Portraits / Attributions / Sitters
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Holbein and the Renaissance in the North, Städel Museum, Frankfurt,(2nd November 2023–18th February 2024) | :
subjects:
Holbein at the Tudor Court, Queen's Gallery, London, (10th November 2023–14th April 2024) | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of a man with the surname Fischer, by Hans Holbein the Elder. c.1512. Silverpoint on prepared paper, reworked with brush and ink, 13.5 by 9.5 cm. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett; exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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2. Portrait of a man with the surname Fischer, by Hans Holbein the Younger (?). 1512. Oil on panel, 35 by 26.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Attributed works:
3. The wife of a man with the surname Fischer, by Ambrosius Holbein (?). 1512. Oil on panel, 35 by 26.6 cm. (Kunstmuseum Basel; Bridgeman Images; exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Attributed works:
4. Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1527. Black and coloured chalks, pricked for transfer to a wooden panel, 39.8 by 29.9 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2024; Royal Collection Trust; exh. Queen’s Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
5. Unidentified man, perhaps George Cornwall, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1535–40. Oil and tempera on panel, diameter 32.4 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Attributed works:
6. Anne Boleyn, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1532–36. Black and coloured chalks on pink prepared paper, 28.2 by 19.3 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2024; Royal Collection Trust; exh. Queen’s Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
7. Unidentified man, perhaps George Cornwall, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1543? Black and coloured chalks with black and brown inks on pink prepared paper, 27.9 by 19.1 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2024; Royal Collection Trust; exh. Queen’s Gallery, London).
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The Buccleuch portrait of Sir Nicholas Carew re-examined
02/2023 | 1439 | 165
Pages: 120-127
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Author:
Kimbriel, Christine Slottved (Kimbriel, Christine Slottved)
Subjects
artists:
after / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Beuckelaer, Huybrecht
collectors and dealers:
Dudley, Robert, First Earl of Leicester, 1532?-1588 / Lumley, John, First Baron Lumley, ca. 1533-1609 / Dukes of Buccleuch
dates:
1550-1599
museums and institutions:
Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain
subjects:
Carew, Sir Nicholas (c.1496–1539) / Half-length portraits / Copies / Paintings / Drawings / Attributions / Provenance / Dating / Technical analysis / Infrared photography / Pigments
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Sir Nicholas Carew, by Hans Holbein the Younger. 1527. Black and coloured chalks on paper, 54.8 by 38.5 cm. (Kunstmuseum Basel).
Attributed works:
2. Sir Nicholas Carew, after Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1585–90. Oil on panel, 95.1 by 102.4 cm. (Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch; photograph Hamilton Kerr Institute).
Attributed works:
3. Infra-red image of Fig.1. (© Hamilton Kerr Institute).
Attributed works:
4. Digital overlay of Figs.1 and 2.
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Fig.2, showing the extreme bottom of the slashed skirt and the better-preserved blue paint with red glaze paint.
Attributed works:
6. Impresa of the Basel book printer Johann Froben, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1523. Tempera on unprimed canvas (Tüchlein), 44 by 31 cm. (Kunstmuseum Basel).
Attributed works:
7. The Prodigal Son, by Huybrecht Beuckelaer. 1563–84. Oil on canvas, 127.5 by 155.5 cm. (Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels).
Exhibition Review
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 74-76
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Reviewer:
Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
Subjects
artists:
Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Hilliard, Nicholas / Eworth, Hans / Horenbout, Lucas / Metsys, Quinten / Geeraerts, Marcus, the elder, 1520 - bef. 1604
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Paintings / Tapestries / Carpets / Silver plate / Stained glass / Medals / Jewellery / Furniture / Embroidery / Sculpture
media:
Miniatures (paintings) / Books / Manuscripts
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
patrons:
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 / Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
subjects:
British art / Tudor / Courts (social groups)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Angel bearing a candlestick (one of a pair), by Benedetto da Rovezzano. 1524–29. Bronze, 101 by 50 by 33 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
11. Elizabeth I (Sieve Portrait), by Quentin Metsys the Younger. 1583. Oil on canvas, 124.5 by 91.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
12. Henry VIII, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1537. Oil on panel, 28 by 20 cm. (Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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Advertisements (front)
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: i-xii
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Subjects
advertisements:
BRAFA Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium / Carlo Orsi (dealer), Milan, Italy / Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (MO), United States / Granta Magazine, London, Great Britain / Santa Tecla Srl, Padua, Italy / Aesthetica Magazine / Charles Ratton & Guy Ladrière, Paris, France / Simiolus, Art Journal, The Netherlands / Minerva Magazine / Christie's, London / Getty Trust Publications , Great Britain / Alessandro Cesati, Milan, Italy / Trinity Fine Art Ltd, London, Great Britain / Rafael Valls, London, Great Britain / Daniel Katz Ltd (dealers), London, Great Britain / French and Company Art, New York, United States / Day and Faber, London, Great Britain / The-saleroom.com / Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Moretti Fine Art, London, Great Britain
artists:
Cairano, Gasparo / Giordano, Luca / Barrias, Félix Joseph / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Offeh, Harold / Zoffany, Johann
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). Boulevard des Capucines, 1873–1874. Oil on canvas, 31 5/8 x 23 3/4 in. (80.3 x 60.3 cm). Purchase: the Kenneth A. and Helen F. Spencer Foundation Acquisition Fund, F72-35.[Nelson Atkins Museum]
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FÉLIX BARRIAS (1822–Paris–1907) A Semi-Nude Reclining Man Charcoal and white chalk on blue paper, squared for transfer, the upper right corner made up Height: 64 cm; Length: 49 cm. Stamp: (L.219b) lower left Our drawing is a study for one of the frescoes in the Saint Louis chapel, in the Parisian church of Saint Eustache 'Saint Louis in Damiette comforting the plague stricken', decoration painted in 1851 [Ratton and Ladrière]
Attributed works:
From the series Emergent (Crystal Mouths), by Harold Offeh. 2022. (Commissioned for Burlington Contemporary Journal Issue 7)
Attributed works:
Gasparo Cairano Deposition Group (detail) alabaster 47,5 x 65 x 22,5 cm [Carlo Orsi]
Attributed works:
Gboyega Odubanjo, featured in Granta 156 : Interiors. Photographed by Lewis Khan [Granta Magazine]
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HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER (1497–1543) AND WORKSHOP Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) oil on panel 7 ⅛ x 5 ½ in. (18 x 14 cm.) Estimate: £1,000,000–1,500,000 [Christie's]
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LUCA GIORDANO known as LUCA FA PRESTO (Naples 1634-1705) Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well Tondo a buon fresco su calce: portable fresco on the original wicker support, diameter 110 cm. Circa 1685 [Santa Tecla]
Exhibition Review
Holbein: Capturing Character
05/2022 | 1430 | 164
Pages: 499-502
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Reviewer:
Foister, Susan (Foister, Susan)
Subjects
artists:
Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Morgan Library and Museum, New York, United States
subjects:
German art / British art / Paintings / Drawings / Jewellery / Book covers / Portraits
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Holbein: Capturing Character Morgan Library and Museum, New York 11th February–15th May | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Allegory of Passion, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1532–36. Oil on panel, 45.4 by 45.4 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; exh. Morgan Library and Museum, New York).
Attributed works:
11. Simon George of Cornwall, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1535–40. Mixed technique on panel, diameter 31 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt; exh. Morgan Library and Museum, New York).
Attributed works:
12. Portrait of a woman, by Hans Holbein the Younger. 1532– 34. Tempera and oil on panel, 23.2 by 19.1 cm. (Detroit Institute of Arts; exh. Morgan Library and Museum, New York).
Exhibition Review
Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media. Foundling Museum, London
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 336-338
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Reviewer:
de Carlos Varona, María Cruz (de Carlos Varona, María Cruz)
Subjects
artists:
Mor, Antonis / Geeraerts, Marcus, the younger, 1561-1635 / Dyck, Anthony van / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543
artists:
Liebovitz, Annie / Howard, Ghislaine
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
The Foundling Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Pregnancy / Medicine
subjects:
Royalty
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media Foundling Museum, London 24th January–26th April | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Unknown lady in red, by Marcus Gheeraerts II. 1620. Oil on panel, 114.3 by 90.2 cm. (Tate, London; exh. Foundling Museum, London).
Attributed works:
11. Plate I from William Hunter’s Anatomia uteri umani gravidi tabulis illustrata, London 1774, by F.S. Ravenet after Jan van Rymsdyk. Engraving, 57 by 48 cm. (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD; exh. Foundling Museum, London).
Attributed works:
12. Pregnant self-portrait, by Ghislaine Howard. 1984. Oil on board, 86.5 by 61 cm. (Collection of the artist; exh. Foundling Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill: Masterpieces from Horace Walpole’s Collection. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 148-151
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Reviewer:
Aldrich, Megan (Aldrich, Megan)
Subjects
artists:
Clouet, François / Batoni, Pompeo / Müntz, Johann Heinrich / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Vertue, George / Dyck, Anthony van / Kneller, Godfrey / Boulle, André-Charles, I, 1642-1732 / Langlois, Pierre Eloy
artists:
Reynolds, Joshua
collectors and dealers:
Walpole, Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford, 1717-1797
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Interiors / Paintings / Watercolours / Sculpture / Bronzes / Ceramics / Miniatures (paintings) / Art objects / Furniture
museums and institutions:
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Collecting / Collections / Collections, Private / Collectors / Taste (aesthetics) / Country houses / Decorative arts / Antiquities / Style / Gothic Revival / Tudor Revival / Baroque / Copies / Coffers / Vases / Attributions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Horace Walpole, by Joshua Reynolds. c.1756–57. Canvas, 127 by 110 cm. (Ragley Hall, Warwickshire; exh. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham).
Attributed works:
12. Catherine de Medici and her children, by the studio of François Clouet. 1561. Canvas, 198 by 137.2 cm. (Private collection; exh. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham).
Attributed works:
13. Installation view of Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill in the Library, Strawberry Hill (Photograph Kilian O’Sullivan).
Exhibition Review
The Orléans Collection. New Orleans Museum of Art
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 67-69
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Reviewer:
Zafran, Eric (Zafran, Eric)
Subjects
art literature:
Haskell, Francis / Dante Alighieri / Cervantes, Miguel de
artists:
Dieu, Antoine / Santerre, Jean-Baptiste / Coypel, Antoine / Coypel, Noël-Nicolas / Poussin, Nicolas / Le Sueur, Eustache / Sebastiano del Piombo / Veronese, Paolo / Andrea del Sarto / Giulio Romano / Vasari, Giorgio / Carracci, Lodovico / Domenichino / Albani, Francesco / Reni, Guido / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Dürer, Albrecht / Rubens, Peter Paul / Dyck, Anthony van / Rembrandt van Rijn / Schalcken, Godfried / Dou, Gerrit
collectors and dealers:
Crozat, Pierre, 1661–1740
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Drawings / Sketches
museums and institutions:
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, United States
patrons:
Philippe II, duc d'Orléans, 1674–1723 / Christina, Queen of Sweden
places:
United States / New Orleans
subjects:
Collections / Collecting / Collections, Private / Patronage / Commissions / Exhibition catalogues / Inventories / Portraits / Allegories / Taste (aesthetics) / Connoisseurship / Religious art / Iconography / Christian iconography / Classical mythology / Classical literature / Aeneid / Eroticism / Baroque / Renaissance / Northern European / Eclecticism / Study and teaching
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. The Meeting of David and Abigail, by Guido Reni. c.1615–20, Canvas, 155.5 by 163.8 cm. (Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk VA; exh. New Orleans Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
14. Allegory of Philippe II, duc d’Orléans, Regent of the Realm, by Antoine Dieu. 1718. Canvas, 106 by 77 cm. (Musée National du Château de Versailles; exh. New Orleans Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
15. Preciosa recognised, by Godfried Schalcken. Late 1660s. Panel, 44.2 by 31.2 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; exh. New Orleans Museum of Art).
Article
From Giotto to the Bushmen: Roger Fry at the Slade 1909–13
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 727-733
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Author:
Elam, Caroline (Elam, Caroline; E., C.; E., C. M.)
Subjects
art literature:
Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.) / Brockwell, Maurice W. / Brown, Frederick / MacColl, D. S. / Tonks, Henry / Ruskin, John / Berenson, Bernard / Bell, Clive
artists:
Giotto / Cézanne, Paul / Gogh, Vincent van / Gauguin, Paul / Piero della Francesca / Nash, Paul / Bomberg, David / Spencer, Stanley / Gertler, Mark / Wadsworth, Edward / Nevinson, C. R. W. / Roberts, William, 1895-1980 / Carrington, Dora / Raverat, Gwen / Sickert, Walter / Steer, Philip Wilson / Chassériau, Théodore / Hunt, William Morris / Watts, George Frederic / Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre / John, Augustus Edwin / Gozzoli, Benozzo / Pinturicchio, Bernardino / Ghirlandaio, Domenico / Masaccio / Uccello, Paolo / Andrea del Castagno / Grant, Duncan / Etchells, Frederick / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder / Lorrain, Claude / Blake, William / Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon / Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique / Currie, John / Bell, Vanessa
artists:
Donatello / Bate, Francis
dates:
1900-1919 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Slade School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Grafton Galleries, London, Great Britain / Omega Workshops / Academie Julian, Paris, France / New English Art Club (NEAC)
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Italian painting / Old-master paintings / French painting / Post-Impressionism / Modernism / Study and teaching / Art schools / Art critics / Art historians / Curators / Burlington Magazine / Portraits / Life drawings / Lectures / Surveys / Formal analysis / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cave paintings / Children's art / Influence
subjects:
British painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Vision, volumes and recession, by Walter Sickert. c.1923, published 1929. Etching, 20 by 11.1 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. The unknown god: Roger Fry preaching the new faith, by Henry Tonks. Exhibited 1923. Canvas, 41.5 by 56 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Pym’s Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Poster for the first Post-Impressionist exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London. 1910. Lettering by Roger Fry. 76.3 by 50.9 cm. (The Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
4. The meeting at the Golden Gate from John Ruskin, Giotto and his Works in Padua, Orpington 1900, p.77. (Warburg Institute, London).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of The meeting at the Golden Gate, by Giotto. c.1305. Fresco. (Arena Chapel, Padua; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Some later primitives and Madame Tisceron, by John Currie. 1912. Tempera on canvas, 46 by 127 cm. (The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. John Donne arriving in heaven, by Stanley Spencer. 1911. Canvas, 37 by 40.5 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
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