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Book Review
Handbook of the Colour Print in China, 1600–1800
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1150–1152
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Reviewer:
McNeill, Malcolm (McNeill, Malcolm)
Subjects
dates:
1600-1799
subjects:
Chinese art / Prints / Printmaking / Books / Albums / Material culture (genre)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Handbook of the Colour Print in China, 1600–1800 Edited by Anne Farrer and Kevin McLoughlin. 328 pp. incl. 142 col. + b. & w. ills. (Brill, Leiden, 2021), £175. ISBN 978–90–04–47189–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Folio 9 from The Story of the Western Wing, by Min Qiji. 1640. Woodblock print, ink and polychrome pigments on paper, 25.5 by 32.2 cm. (Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne; photograph Sabrina Walz).
Exhibition Review
Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1148-1150
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Reviewer:
Golahny, Amy (Golahny, Amy)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, United States
subjects:
Dutch art / Drawings / Albums / Landscapes (visual works) / Nature
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape Edited by Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson. 246 pp. incl. 138 col. + b. & w. ills. (Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA, 2022), £40. ISBN 978–0–300–26382–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Abraham and the angels, by Hans Bol. 1589. Watercolour over traces of black chalk on antique laid paper, 11.2 by 15.3 cm. (Fogg Museum, Cambridge MA; © President and Fellows of Harvard College).
Attributed works:
11. Sleeping Diana spied upon by a satyr, by Leonaert Bramer. 1635. Graphite on parchment, 11 by 15.2 cm. (Fogg Museum, Cambridge MA; © President and Fellows of Harvard College).
Attributed works:
9. Ruins in Utrecht by the Saint Jobsgasthuis, by Herman Saftleven. 1674. Black chalk, watercolour and gray ink on paper, 19.4 by 15 cm. (Fogg Museum, Cambridge MA; © President and Fellows of Harvard College).
Book Review
Jacopo Bellini’s ‘Book of Drawings’ in the Louvre and the Paduan Academy of Francesco Squarcione
05/2022 | 1430 | 164
Pages: 518-520
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Reviewer:
Brown, Beverly Louise (Brown, Beverly Louise)
Subjects
artists:
Bellini, Jacopo / Squarcione, Francesco / Mantegna, Andrea
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France / British Museum, Dept. of Prints and Drawings, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Albums / Drawings / Attributions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Jacopo Bellini’s ‘Book of Drawings’ in the Louvre and the Paduan Academy of Francesco Squarcione By Norberto Gramaccini. 248 pp. incl. 102 col. ills. (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2021), £52. ISBN 978–3–11–075059–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Battle of the sea gods, by Andrea Mantegna. Before 1481. Engraving and drypoint, 28.3 by 82.6 cm. (Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth).
Attributed works:
2. Triumph of Bacchus, by Jacopo Bellini. 1450s. Pen and ink over metalpoint on parchment, 26 by 38 cm. (Départment des arts graphiques, Musée du Louvre, Paris; RF 1540, 41, fol.36r).
Book Review
Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 966-967
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Reviewer:
Choi, Kee Il Jr (Choi, Kee Il Jr)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Bertin (1719-93), Henri Léonard Jean-Baptiste
places:
France
subjects:
Chinese art / Chinese architecture / Albums / Watercolours
subjects:
Diplomacy / Missionaries / Collecting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France By John Finlay. 196 pp. incl. 14 col. + 29 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, New York and London, 2020), £120. ISBN 978–1–138–20473–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Maison à double étage, plate 20 from Essai sur l’architecture chinoise (1773). Ink and colour on paper, 35 by 45 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Plate 2 from W. Chambers: Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils, London 1757. Engraving, 53 by 36.8 cm. (© British Library Board).
Article
Picturing Mount Yandang: the travel paintings and landscape aesthetics of Yu Jianhua
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 840-849
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Author:
Chan, Pedith (Chan, Pedith)
Subjects
artists:
Yu Jianhua
media:
Watercolours
patrons:
Jiang Shunan
places:
Mount Yandang (China)
subjects:
Chinese art / Landscapes (visual works) / Nature / Aesthetics / Mountains / Travel / Cultural tourism / Guidebooks / Illustrations / Photographs / Plein-air / Sketches / Brushwork / Albums / Art theory
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. View of the Lingyan Temple, by Yu Jianhua. 1931. Ink and colour on paper, 30.6 by 22.5 cm. (Collection of the Library of the Nanjing University of the Arts).
Attributed works:
10. Illustration of the Spirit Peak, Yan shan zhi, 15th−16th century. Blockprint. (Repr. in Gazetteer of Mount Yan, 1601).
Attributed works:
11. A view of the Spirit Peak, by Jiang Shunan. Photograph. (Repr. in Scenic China series X: Yen T’ang Shan, Shanghai 1917).
Attributed works:
12. Spirit Peak, by Yu Jianhua. 1931. Ink and colour on paper, 22.5 by 30.6 cm. (Collection of the Library of the Nanjing University of the Arts).
Attributed works:
13. Jinzhu Brooks, by Yu Jianhua. 1931. Ink and colour on paper, 22.5 by 30.6 cm. (Collection of the Library of the Nanjing University of the Arts).
Attributed works:
14. View of Furong Village, by Yu Jianhua. 1931. Ink and colour on paper, 22.5 by 30.6 cm. (Collection of the Library of the Nanjing University of the Arts).
Attributed works:
15. Tandang Rock, by Yu Jianhua. 1931. Ink and colour on paper, 22.5 by 30.6 cm. (Collection of the Library of the Nanjing University of the Arts).
Attributed works:
2. Yangtianwo Studio, by Yu Jianhua, a section from the handscroll Yantianwo. 1931. Ink and colour on paper, 26 by 91.8 cm. Collection of Kyoto National Museum
Attributed works:
3. View of the Geese Lake and Baigang Summit, by Yu Jianhua. 1931. Ink and colour on paper, 22.5 by 61.2 cm. (Collection of the Library of the Nanjing University of the Arts).
Attributed works:
4. Magnificent view of the Spirit Peak, by Yu Jianhua. 1931. Ink on paper, 22.5 by 30.6 cm. (Collection of the Library of the Nanjing University of the Arts).
Attributed works:
5. Duxiu Peak, by Yu Jianhua. 1931. Ink and colour on paper, 22.5 by 15.3 cm. (Collection of the Library of the Nanjing University of the Arts).
Attributed works:
6. Duxiu Peak. Blockprint. (Repr. in Extended Gazetteer of Mount Yan-dang [Guang Yandang shan zhi], 1790; Harvard Library, Cambridge, MA).
Attributed works:
7. Dragon Waterfall, by Yu Jianhua. 1931. Ink and colour on paper, 22.5 by 30.6 cm. (Collection of the Library of the Nanjing University of the Arts).
Attributed works:
8. Peaks in strange shapes, by Yu Jianhua. 1931, Ink on paper, 22.5 by 15.3 cm. (Collection of the Library of the Nanjing University of the Arts).
Attributed works:
9. Peaks in strange shapes. China, late 18th century. Blockprint. (Repr. in Extended Gazetteer of Mount Yandang [Guang Yandang shan zhi], 1790; Harvard Library, Cambridge, MA).
Book Review
The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and the Art of Album-Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 904
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Kalender Pasha
patrons:
Sultan Ahmed I
places:
Istanbul
styles:
Turkish School
subjects:
Ottomans (people) / Albums
Illustrations
Attributed works:
The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and the Art of Album-Making in Seventeenth- Century Istanbul By Emine Fetvacı. 296 pp. incl. 126 col. ills. (Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2019), £54. ISBN 978–0–691–18915–4.
Exhibition Review
Albrecht Dürer. Albertina, Vienna
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 950-952
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Reviewer:
Kunz, Armin (Kunz, Armin)
Subjects
artists:
Dürer, Albrecht
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
subjects:
Drawings / Studies (visual works) / Watercolours / Albums / Provenance / Attributions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Head of an African, by Albrecht Dürer. 1508. Black chalk, 31.8 by 21.7 cm. (Albertina, Vienna).
Attributed works:
11. Praying hands and Head of an apostle, by Albrecht Dürer. 1508. Brush and black and gray ink, gray wash, heightened with white, on blue prepared paper, 29.1 by 23.6 cm. and 29.1 by 19.7 cm. (Albertina, Vienna).
Attributed works:
12. Muzzle of a bull, by Albrecht Dürer. c.1502. Watercolour and bodycolour, 19.7 by 15.8 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Albertina, Vienna).
Article
Eugène Boudin’s beach scenes at the Salon during the 1860s
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 374-387
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Author:
Manoeuvre, Laurent (Manoeuvre, Laurent)
Subjects
art literature:
Baudelaire, Charles / Schmit, Robert / Pludermacher, Isolde, Paris, France
artists:
Boudin, Eugène / Monet, Claude / Courbet, Gustave / Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
dates:
1860-1869
media:
Paintings / Pastels / Drawings / Albums / Watercolours
places:
Honfleur / Le Havre / Deauville / Trouville / Brittany
subjects:
beach scenes / Salons (art exhibitions) / Seascapes / French art / Marine art / Plein-air / Dating / Album autobiographique (Boudin)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Detail of Fig.23.
Attributed works:
10. Beach scene, by Eugène Boudin, here identified as A meeting on a beach. 1866. Canvas, 73.5 by 104 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
11. Caricature of The beach at Trouville by Eugène Boudin, exhibited at the Salon in 1866, by ‘Bertall’, published in ‘Le Salon de 1866’, Le Journal Amusant, no.545 (9th June 1866).
Attributed works:
12. Figures on a beach, by Eugène Boudin. 1865. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 17.4 by 13.7 cm. (Musée du Louvre and Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
13. Beach scene, by Eugène Boudin. 1865. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 13 by 19.4 cm. (Musée du Louvre and Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
14. Figures on a beach, by Eugène Boudin. 1865. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 14 by 18.2 cm. (Musée du Louvre and Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
15. Children on a beach, by Eugène Boudin. 1865. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 10.6 by 14.6 cm. (Musée du Louvre and Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
16. Bathers, by Eugène Boudin. 1865. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 9.2 by 17.3 cm. (Musée du Louvre and Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
17. Study of a dog, by Eugène Boudin. 1865. Pencil on paper, 8.2 by 11 cm. (Musée du Louvre and Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
18. The jetty, by Eugène Boudin, from L’Art à Paris en 1867, Album autographique, 7th edition, Paris 1867.
Attributed works:
19. Beach scene, by Eugène Boudin, from L’Art à Paris en 1867, Album autographique, 7th edition, Paris 1867.
Attributed works:
2. Bathing hour at Trouville beach, by Eugène Boudin. 1864. Canvas, 67.5 by 104 cm. (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto).
Attributed works:
20. The jetty at Le Havre, by Eugène Boudin, from L’Art à Paris en 1867, Album autographique, 17th edition (Paris 1867).
Attributed works:
21. Leaving for the pardon, Finistère, by Eugène Boudin, from L’Art à Paris en 1867, Album autographique, 17th edition (Paris 1867).
Attributed works:
22. Beach scene, by Eugène Boudin. 1867. Canvas, 63 by 89 cm. (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).
Attributed works:
23. Beach scene, by Eugène Boudin, here identified as Beach near Trouville, painted in 1864 and reworked in 1869. Canvas, 67.3 by 104.1 cm. (Minneapolis Institute of Art).
Attributed works:
24. Reading on the beach, by Eugène Boudin. 1869. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 12.5 by 18.5 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
25 and 26. Beach scenes, by Eugène Boudin (recto and verso of a single sheet). 1868. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 13.2 by 21 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
3. Concert at Deauville casino, by Eugène Boudin. 1865. Canvas, 41 by 73 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
4. Drawing by Eugène Boudin after Fig.2, illustrated in L’Autographe au Salon et dans les Ateliers (13th May 1865), p.27.
Attributed works:
5. Bathing hour at Trouville beach, by Eugène Boudin. 1864. Canvas, 31.1 by 48.5 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
6. Bathing hour at Trouville beach, by Eugène Boudin. c.1865. Pencil on paper, 20 by 30 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
7. Bathing hour at Trouville beach, by Emile Vernier after Eugène Boudin. c.1865. Lithograph. (Musée Villa Montebello, Trouville).
Attributed works:
8. Beach scene, by Eugène Boudin. c.1865. Pencil on paper, 20 by 30 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
9. Beach scene, by Eugène Boudin. 1866. Watercolour over pencil on paper, 13.5 by 25.7 cm. (Private collection).
Exhibition Review
The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy. National Gallery of Art, Washington
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 953-955
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Reviewer:
Wilson, Bronwen (Wilson, Bronwen)
Subjects
art literature:
Vasari, Giorgio / Oberhuber, Konrad / Gnann, Achim
artists:
Ugo da Carpi / Titian / Andreani, Andrea / Beccafumi, Domenico / Raphael / Parmigianino
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Prints / Woodcuts
museums and institutions:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States
places:
United States / Los Angeles / Washington DC
subjects:
Printmaking / Chiaroscuro / Chiaroscuro woodcuts / Albums / Workshops (Organisations) / Colour / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Techniques / Collections / Collections, Public / Collections, Private
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Diogenes, by Ugo da Carpi, after Parmigianino. c.1527–30. Woodcut, 48.4 by 34.8 cm. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art; exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
5. St Philip, by Domenico Beccafumi. c.1540. Woodcut, 28.2 by 17 cm. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington; exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
6. A skull, by Andrea Andreani, after Giovanni Fortuna (?). c.1588. Woodcut, 28.1 by 33.7 cm. (The British Museum, London; exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Article
A Renaissance bronze in Birmingham, the bailli de Breteuil and Luigi Valadier
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 928-937
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Author:
Warren, Jeremy (Warren, Jeremy)
Subjects
art literature:
Planiscig, Leo / Sewter, A. C. / Fletcher, Jennifer / Radcliffe, Anthony / Bergeret de Grancourt, Pierre Jacques Onésyme, 1715-1785 / Sciberras, Keith / Miles, Hamish / Bodkin, Thomas
artists:
Valadier, Luigi / Severo da Ravenna / Riccio, Andrea / Cavaceppi, Bartolomeo / Nollekens, Joseph / Robert, Hubert / Ango, Jean-Robert / Guiard, Laurent / Giambologna / Duquesnoy, François / Michelangelo / Soldani-Benzi, Massimiliano (1656-1740) / Valadier, Giuseppe
artists:
Pécheux, Laurent / Lavallée, Etienne de / Saint-Non, Jean Claude Richard de / Bridan, Charles Antoine / Breton, Jean Louis
collectors and dealers:
Tonnelier, Jacques-Laure le / Michiel, Marcantonio / Lebrun, Jean Baptiste Pierre / Julliot, Claude-François / Julliot, Philippe-François, fils, / Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796
dates:
1750-1799
media:
Sculpture / Bronzes / Marbles / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Great Britain / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Knights of Malta / Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
places:
Great Britain / Birmingham / Italy / Rome
subjects:
Italian sculpture / Neo-classicism / Venetian / Greek Revival / Supports / Casts (sculpture) / Shells (animal material) / Animals / Ornament / Albums / Vases / Portraits / Dinner services / Collecting / Collections / Collections, Private / Collections, Public / Commissions / Patronage / Art market / Provenance / Attributions / Attribution / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Inventories / Sales catalogues / Acquisitions / Slavery
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Allegorical figure, by Jean-Robert Ango after a terracotta relief by François Berruer. 1767. Red chalk, 43.8 by 28.4 cm. (Marquis de Breteuil).
Attributed works:
11. The Callipygian Venus, by Jean-Robert Ango, after a marble statue attributed to Jean Louis Breton after a drawing by Laurent Guiard. 1765. Black chalk, 28.2 by 22 cm. (Marquis de Breteuil).
Attributed works:
12. A Furietti centaur, one of a pair, by Jean-Robert Ango, after bronze statuettes after the antique statues. c.1765–70. Black chalk, 28.4 by 22 cm. and 28.7 by 22 cm. (Marquis de Breteuil).
Attributed works:
13. Satyr holding grapes with panther, and Figure of a warrior, known as the Executioner, by Jean-Robert Ango, after bronze statuettes attributed to Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi and François Duquesnoy. 1765. Black chalk, 28.2 by 21.7 cm. (Marquis de Breteuil).
Attributed works:
14. Assemblage with a vase and a plaque depicting Henri IV, by Jean-Robert Ango, after a model attributed to Jacques-Laure Le Tonnelier, bailli de Breteuil and Luigi Valadier. c.1765–70. Red chalk, 47.5 by 34.8 cm. (Marquis de Breteuil).
Attributed works:
15. Seated Rome, by Luigi and Giuseppe Valadier. 1780–86. Hardstones, silver- and bronze-gilt, height 46 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
3. Jacques-Laure Le Tonnelier, bailli de Breteuil, by Louis Jacques Pilon. 1785. Plaster, height 87 cm. (Marquis de Breteuil).
Attributed works:
4. Boy riding upon a horse, by the workshop of Severo Calzetta (Severo da Ravenna). c.1510–30. The base is here attributed to the workshop of Luigi Valadier, Rome. c.1770–80. Bronze, marble and gilt-bronze, 18 by 22 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
5. The salon of the bailli de Breteuil in Palazzo Malta, Rome, by Hubert Robert. c.1765. Red chalk, 34.9 by 48.8 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
6. Agrippina as Minerva, by Jean-Robert Ango, after a possibly Roman bronze statuette. c.1765–70. Black chalk, 28 by 22 cm. (Marquis de Breteuil).
Attributed works:
7. Figure of a boy (‘Souffleur de bulles de savon’), by Jean-Robert Ango after a bronze statuette, model by François Duquesnoy. c.1765–70. Red chalk, 21.7 by 18.8 cm. (Marquis de Breteuil).
Attributed works:
8. Detail from Antique vases and statuettes and a modern vase, by Jean-Robert Ango after antique models and a bronze model by Luigi Valadier, incorporating designs by François Duquesnoy. 1765. Black chalk. 27.5 by 43.5 cm. (Marquis de Breteuil).
Attributed works:
9. A dog, by Jean-Robert Ango after a possibly Roman bronze statuette. c.1765–70. Black chalk, 28 by 21.5 cm. (Marquis de Breteuil).
Western art unattributed:
1. Boy riding upon a goat. Italian, probably Padua, early sixteenth century. The base is here attributed to the workshop of Luigi Valadier, Rome, c.1770–80. Bronze, marble and gilt-bronze, 21.7 by 22.1 cm. (Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham).
Western art unattributed:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing the shell.
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