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Exhibition Review
Napoleon: Power and Splendour. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 676-678
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Reviewer:
Bordes, Philippe (Bordes, Philippe; Bordes, Phillipe)
Subjects
art literature:
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
artists:
David, Jacques-Louis / Gros, Antoine-Jean / Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique / Gerard, Francois Baron (1770-1837) / Rigaud, Hyacinthe / Isabey, Jean-Baptiste / Chinard, Joseph / Dufau, Fortuné / Regnault, Jean Baptiste
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Prints / Sculpture / Porcelain / Tapestries / Textiles / Silks / Costume / Furniture
museums and institutions:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada / Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (MO), United States / Château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France
patrons:
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
places:
United States / Richmond (United States) / Kansas City / Canada / Montreal / France / Fontainebleau
subjects:
French painting / French sculpture / Decorative arts / Politics / Diplomacy / First Empire (France: 1799-1815) / Patronage / Ancien Régime (France) / Ceremonies / Allegories / Iconography / Portraits / Family portraits / Sèvres porcelain / Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Illustrations
Attributed works:
15. General Armand-Samuel de Marescot with his wife, Cécile, his son, Antoine-Samuel, his daughter, Joséphine-Cécile, and his motherin-law, Marie-Charlotte d’Artis de Thiézac, by Fortuné Dufau. 1806. Canvas, 240 by 195 cm. (Private collection; exh. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA).
Attributed works:
16. Triumphal march of Napoleon to the Temple of Immortality, by Jean-Baptiste Regnault. 1804–05. Paper mounted on canvas, 52.4 by 93 cm. (Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; exh. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA).
Attributed works:
17. Etruscan Scroll Vase, called the Londonderry Vase. Sèvres Imperial Manufactory, after a design by Charles Percier and Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart père, decoration by Gilbert Drouet and Christophe-Ferdinand Caron. 1813. Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration, gilding and ormolu mounts, height 137.2 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago).
Exhibition Review
Flower painting
10/2015 | 1351 | 157
Pages: 732-733
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Reviewer:
Brettell, Richard R. (Brettell, Richard R.; Brettell, Richard)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States / Denver Art Museum, Denver, United States / Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States
places:
United States / Richmond (United States) / Denver / Dallas
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Flower pieces / French painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
69. Flowers in a Chantilly vase, by Louis Tessier. c.1760 (Saint Louis Art Museum; exh. Denver Art Museum)
Attributed works:
70. Bouquet of flowers in a vase, by Gustave Courbet. 1862 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; exh. Denver Art Museum)
Attributed works:
71. Still life of wildflowers, by Alfred Sisley. 1875 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; exh. Denver Art Museum)
Exhibition Review
Paul Mellon’s legacy. New Haven and London
10/2007 | 1255 | 149
Pages: 714-16
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Reviewer:
Belsey, Hugh (Belsey, Hugh)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Mellon, Paul
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States / Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States / Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia / Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
National Sporting Library, Middleburg, United States
places:
London / New Haven / Cambridge / England / United States
places:
Richmond (United States)
places:
Middleburg (United States)
print:
Mellon, Paul
print:
British art
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / British painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art | institution: Royal Academy of Arts , institution: Yale Center for British Art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
52. Dort, or Dordrecht, the Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed, by Joseph Mallord William Turner. 1818. Canvas, 157.5 by 233 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
53. Pumpkin with a stable-lad, by George Stubbs. 1774. Panel, 80 by 99.5 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
54. John Gubbins Newton and his sister, Mary Newton, by Robert Burnard. c.1833 Canvas, 235 by 143.5 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
55. Tom Conolly of Castletown hunting with his friends, by Robert Healy. 1769. Pastel, chalks and gouache on two joined sheets of laid paper, 51.4 by 135.9 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
56. The Arbra Sacra on the banks of Lake Nemi, by Richard Wilson. c.1754–56. Black and white chalk on grey laid paper, 38.7 by 55.9 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Short Notice
Stuart Davis’s ‘Little giant still life’ (1950) and the ‘Champion’ series
09/2007 | 1254 | 149
Pages: 629-630
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Author:
Caudill Dennison, Mariea (Caudill Dennison, Mariea; Caudill, Mariea)
Subjects
artists:
Davis, Stuart, 1894-1964
dates:
1950-1959
museums and institutions:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States
places:
Richmond (United States) / United States
print:
Davis, Stuart, 1894-1964
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Modernism / Modern Art
subjects:
Advertisements
Illustrations
Attributed works:
38. Little giant still life, by Stuart Davis. 1950. Canvas, 83.8 by 109.1 cm. (The John Barton Payne Fund, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. © Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA, New York).
Western art unattributed:
39. Detail of Champion spark plug advertisement. Reproduced in American Magazine (May 1950).
Western art unattributed:
40. Film advertisement for Champion. Reproduced in The New York Times (28th April 1949).
Exhibition Review
The Bruyas Collection. San Francisco
04/2005 | 1225 | 147
Pages: 285-286
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Reviewer:
House, John (House, John; H., J.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Bruyas, Alfred
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France / Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States / Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, United States / Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States / California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, United States
places:
United States / San Francisco / Richmond (United States) / Williamstown / Dallas
print:
Bruyas, Alfred
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Collections, Public / Collections, Private / French painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet! The Bruyas Collection from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier | institution: California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Illustrations
Attributed works:
97. Portrait of Baudelaire, by Gustave Courbet. c.1848. 53 by 61 cm. (Musée Fabre, Montpellier; exh. California Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco).
Attributed works:
98. Alfred Bruyas in his study, by Edouard-Antoine Marsal. 1876. 61.6 by 48.5 cm. (Musée Fabre, Montpellier; exh. California Palace of the legion of Honor, San Francisco).
Exhibition Review
Treasures from Chatsworth at Richmond, Virginia
12/1979 | 921 | 121
Pages: 812+826
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Reviewer:
Spike, John T. (Spike, John T.; Spike, John; Spike, John I.)
Subjects
buildings:
Chatsworth, Derbyshire, Great Britain
dates:
1970-1979
museums and institutions:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States
places:
United States
places:
Richmond (United States)
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
subjects:
British painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
54. Horatius Cocles Defending the Bridge over the Tiber, by Anthony van Dyck. Pen and Brown Ink with Grey Wash, 20 by 30.8 cm. (Chatsworth; Exh. Virginia Museum).
Short Notice
Recent Museum Acquisitions
05/1972 | 830 | 114
Pages: 357
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Subjects
dates:
1970-1979
museums and institutions:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States
museums and institutions:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
places:
United States
places:
Richmond (United States) / Cleveland
subjects:
Art museums / Acquisitions
Book Review
Recent Museum Publications from America
10/1968 | 787 | 110
Pages: 585-586
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Reviewer:
Fredericksen, Burton B. (Fredericksen, Burton B.; Fredericksen, Burton)
Subjects
dates:
1960-1969
museums and institutions:
de Young Museum, San Francisco, United States
museums and institutions:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
museums and institutions:
Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM), Oberlin, United States
museums and institutions:
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, United States
museums and institutions:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States
places:
United States
places:
Cleveland / San Francisco / Atlanta / Richmond (United States)
subjects:
Art museums / Catalogues
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Catalogue of European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum | :
subjects:
European Art in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; a Catalogue | :
subjects:
European Works of Art in the M. H. De Young Memorial Museum | :
subjects:
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art | :
subjects:
Masterpieces in the High Museum of Art | :