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Exhibition Review
Revoir Watteau: Un comédien sans réplique. Pierrot, dit le ‘Gilles’
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1238–40
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Reviewer:
Rand, Richard (Rand, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Watteau, Antoine
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
subjects:
French painting / Popular Theatre / Actors and actresses / Conservation / Commedia dell'Arte
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Revoir Watteau: Un comédien sans réplique. Pierrot, dit le ‘Gilles’ Musée du Louvre, Paris 16th October 2024–3rd February 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Jean-Louis Barrault in the role of Jean-Gaspard (‘Baptiste’) Deburau, still from the film Les Enfants du paradis, dir. M. Carné. 1945. (Pathé Films; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Pierrot (formerly called Gilles), by Antoine Watteau. c.1719. Oil on canvas, 184 by 155 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Attributed works:
3. Les Comédiens italiens, here attributed to Antoine Watteau and collaborators. c.1720. Oil on canvas, 129 by 93 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Short Notice
New questions about Sickert’s ‘Vesta Victoria at the Old Bedford’
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 305-307
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Author:
Rough, Billy (Rough, Billy)
Subjects
artists:
Sickert, Walter
dates:
1890-1899 / 1900-1909
subjects:
British art / Popular Theatre / Actors and actresses / Musicians / Music / Dating / Identification
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Vesta Victoria at the Old Bedford, by Walter Sickert. c.1890. Oil on board, 36.8 by 23.5 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
2. Vesta Victoria at the Old Bedford, by Walter Sickert. c.1890. Black chalk with white heightening, pen and ink, 34.6 by 23.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Resource; Scala, Florence).
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3. Vesta Victoria, from the ‘Actors and Actresses’ series issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes. c.1890. Albumen print, 6.4 by 3.7 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Short Notice
Embarking for Cythera: Watteau’s ‘Feste galante’
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1255-1257
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Author:
Sonnabend, Martin (Sonnabend, Martin)
Subjects
artists:
Watteau, Antoine
dates:
1710-1719
sources:
Popular Theatre
subjects:
French painting / Fêtes galantes / Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Paris, France
works:
Embarkation for Cythera (Watteau)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Embarkation for Cythera, by Jean-Antoine Watteau. 1717. Oil on canvas, 129 by 194 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6 Embarkation for Cythera, by Jean-Antoine Watteau. c.1709–10. Oil on canvas, 45.5 by 56 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Book Review
Time, Media, and Visuality in Post- Revolutionary France
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 423-424
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Reviewer:
Wrigley, Richard (Wrigley, Richard)
Subjects
dates:
1790-1829 / 1830-1849
subjects:
French art / Paintings / Miniatures (paintings) / Fans (costume accessories) / Fashion / Popular Theatre / Politics
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Time, Media, and Visuality in Post- Revolutionary France Edited by Iris Moon and Richard Taws. 280 pp. incl. 32 col. + 61 b. & w. ills. (Bloomsbury, London, 2021), £85. ISBN 978–1–5013–4839–6. | :
Book Review
Vauxhall Gardens: A History
04/2012 | 1309 | 154
Pages: 279-280
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Reviewer:
Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd (Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd; Gowan, Todd Longstaffe-)
Subjects
dates:
1660-1719 / 1700-1899
places:
Vauxhall Gardens, London, Great Britain / London
print:
Vauxhall Gardens, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Gardens / Architectural history / Cultural history / History / Music / Popular Theatre
subjects:
Parks
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Vauxhall Gardens: A History | author: Borg, Alan , author: Coke, David
Short Notice
Walter Sickert at Gatti’s: new technical evidence
04/2006 | 1237 | 148
Pages: 264-269
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Author:
Beresford, Richard (Beresford, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Sickert, Walter
dates:
1900-1909
museums and institutions:
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
museums and institutions:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
print:
Sickert, Walter
subjects:
British painting / Collections, Public / Conservation / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Lost works / Theatres / Popular Theatre / Dating / Radiographs
subjects:
Ultraviolet photographs
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. 'Kate O'Grady, You're a lady', by Walter Sickert. Drawing repr. in The Idler (March 1895).
Attributed works:
24. Gatti's Hungerford Palace of Varieties: second turn of Miss Katie Lawrence, by Walter Sickert. c.1903. 83 by 97 cm. (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney).
Attributed works:
25. X-radiograph of Fig. 24, rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
Attributed works:
26. St Jacques, façade, by Walter Sickert. c.1899-1900. 55.9 by 48.2 cm. (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester).
Attributed works:
27. St Jacques, Dieppe, by Walter Sickert. Pencil, pen and ink, 23 by 18 cm. (Christie's, London, 14th May 1992).
Attributed works:
28. Gatti's Hungerford Palace of Varieties: second turn of Miss Katie Lawrence, by Walter Sickert. c.1903. 38 by 45.8 cm. (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven).
Attributed works:
29. Detail of lower-left edge of 24, showing black grid lines.
Attributed works:
31. Detail of spot-lit curtain in Fig. 24, showing underpainting colours of violet and green.
Attributed works:
32. Photograph of Fig. 24, under ultraviolet light.
Short Notice
Some newly discovered sketches by Walter Sickert of Gatti's Hungerford Palace of Varieties
04/2006 | 1237 | 148
Pages: 269-272
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Author:
Robins, Anna Gruetzner (Robins, Anna Gruetzner; Gruetzner Robins, Anna; Gruetzner, Anna)
Subjects
artists:
Sickert, Walter
dates:
1880-1889
museums and institutions:
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, Great Britain / City Art Gallery, Leeds, Great Britain / Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, Great Britain / Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Great Britain
print:
Sickert, Walter
subjects:
Drawings / Sketches / Albums / Collections, Public / Theatres / Popular Theatre / Donations / Preliminary drawings / British
Illustrations
Attributed works:
33. Thirteen music-hall studies made at Gatti's, London, by Walter Sickert. 1887. Pencil on paper (with ink inscriptions) on album paper mount, 34.5 by 29.2 cm. (overall). (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery).
Attributed works:
34. Detail (top left) of a music-hall study made at Gatti's, London, by Walter Sickert. 1887. Pencil on paper (with ink inscriptions) on album paper mount, 34.5 by 29.2 cm. (overall). (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery). Inscribed by Sickert 'Gattis. May 20.87'.
Attributed works:
35. Detail of a music-hall study made at Gatti's, London, by Walter Sickert. 1887. Pencil on paper (with ink inscriptions) on album paper mount, 34.5 by 29.2 cm. (overall). (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery). Showing study of Katie Lawrence, Gatti's (23rd May 1887), and inscribed by Sickert 'not wearing the same dress'.
Attributed works:
37. Fifteen music-hall studies made at Gatti’s, London, by Walter Sickert. 1888. Pencil on paper on album paper mount, 34.5 by 29.2 cm. (overall). (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery).
Attributed works:
38. Eight studies of the audience, Gatti’s, London, by Walter Sickert. 1888. Pencil on paper on album paper mount, 34.5 by 29.2 cm. (overall). (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery).
Western art unattributed:
36. Katie Lawrence. Sheet-music cover, Francis Day & Hunter, London, c.1890. (By permission of the British Library, London; H.3981.jj (16)).
Article
Georges de La Tour's 'Old Man' and 'Old Woman' in San Francisco
05/1979 | 914 | 121
Pages: 288-294
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Author:
Smith, Martha Kellogg (Smith, Martha Kellogg)
Subjects
artists:
La Tour, Georges de
dates:
1600-1649
museums and institutions:
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, United States
places:
France
subjects:
French painting / Portraits
subjects:
Popular Theatre / Alison (popular theatre)
subjects:
Working Class / Iconography
subjects:
Conjugal farces (genre) / Women
subjects:
Costume / Dress
subjects:
Genre paintings / Visual sources
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Old Man, by Georges de La Tour. 91.1 by 60.3 cm. (Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco).
Attributed works:
17. Old Woman, by Georges de La Tour. 91.4 by 60.6 cm. (Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco).
Attributed works:
18. Le Matois et la tripière, Design Attributed to Isaac Briot, Published by Jaspar Isac. Engraving, 20.3 by 16 cm. (Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris).
Attributed works:
20. Michau, Boniface, Alison et Philipin, Designed by Grégoire Huret, Published by Mariette. Engraving, 17.3 by 37.7 cm. (Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris).
Attributed works:
21. Plaisanterie d'un pédant et d'une harangère, Designed by Charles Le Brun, Engraved by Jean Humbelot. 20 by 33.5 cm. (Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris).
Attributed works:
22. Dialogue de dame Alison et de Lubin son mari dans le cabaret, Published by Jean Ganière. Engraving, 29.5 by 39.6 cm. (Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris).
Attributed works:
23. L'Invention des femmes qui font ôter la méchanceté de la tête de leurs maris, Published by Jacques Lagniet. Engraving, 29.5 by 40.5 cm. (Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
19. La Dentiste. French, Late Sixteenth Century. Woodcut, 34.5 by 24.5 cm. (Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris).