Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Contribution by:
| Galitz, Kathryn Calley
Rabinow, Rebecca A.
Rewald, Sabine
Stein, Susan Alyson
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Staff,
Ashley E., Miller |
| Text by:
| Miller, Asher Ethan |
| Author:
| Tinterow, Gary |
| ISBN: | 978-0-300-12412-5 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $96.00 |
Book Description:
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This beautiful volume features a compendium of the Metropolitan Museum’s finest European paintings dating from 1800 to 1920. The focus is on French art of this period--of which the Museum possesses the most comprehensive collection outside of France--but extraordinary pictures by artists of other nationalities are also included. Thanks to a succession of generous and discerning donors--
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This beautiful volume features a compendium of the Metropolitan Museum’s finest European paintings dating from 1800 to 1920. The focus is on French art of this period--of which the Museum possesses the most comprehensive collection outside of France--but extraordinary pictures by artists of other nationalities are also included. Thanks to a succession of generous and discerning donors--
from the H. O. Havemeyers to the Walter H. Annenbergs--this publication presents a history of painting in Paris from Prud’hon to Picasso, by way of Delacroix, Corot, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Degas, C#65533;zanne, Seurat, and many others.