French Drawings from The British Museum:Clouet to Seurat by Perrin Stein

French Drawings from The British Museum:Clouet to Seurat by Perrin Stein

The earliest part of the British Museum's collection of French drawings includes sheets by artists rarely seen today, from royal court portraits of the sixteenth century by members of the Clouet family to the elegant Mannerist style of Francesco Primaticclo and others working at the chateau of Fontainebleau. The British Museum also boasts rich holdings of the major masters of the Baroque, such as Jacques Callot, Nicolas Poussin, and Claude Lorrain, many of which entered the collection in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Enlightenment period is represented by brilliant examples of draftsmanship from the sparkling Rococo trois crayons sheets of Antoine Watteau to the coolly elegant Neoclassical drawings of Jacques-Louis David. Enriched by the de Hauke bequest, the nineteenth-century holdings touch the high points of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, from Degas to Cezanne to Seurat. The catalogue begins with an essay by the curator Martin Royalton-Kisch on the history of collecting French drawings at the British Museum. This will be followed by full scholarly entries on individual works including information on provenance and recent bibliography by Perrin Stein.

Perrin Stein is Associate Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, specializing in French drawings of the ancien regime. She was co-author of Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections (1999). She has contributed to numerous collection and exhibition catalogues, and written articles for The Burlington Magazine, Master Drawings, and other scholarly journals. Martin Royalton-Kisch is a curator at the British Museum. His books include Adriaen van de Venne's Album, Drawings by Rembrandt and his Circle in the British Museum, The Light of Nature: Landscape Drawings by Van Dyck and his Contemporaries and Rembrandt the Printmaker.

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ISBN 13	9780714126463
ISBN 10	0714126462
Title	French Drawings from The British Museum:Clouet to Seurat
Author	Perrin Stein
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	British Museum Press
Year published	2005-10-31
Number of pages	240
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