The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume VII:
Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings: Central Europe, The Netherlands, France, England
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Mary Tavener Holmes, Fritz Koreny, Donald Posner, & Duncan Robinson

Cloth | 1999 | $145.00 / £100.00
448 pp. | 8 1/2 x 11 | 70 color plates 275 duotones

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Early European art was a consuming interest of both Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, an interest reflected in the remarkable number and quality of drawings they owned from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In addition to an important group of early German drawings, the collection includes a Saint Paul from a series associated with Jan van Eyck and the famous Scupstoel from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden, the only design for a decorative sculpture to survive from the fifteenth century. The great artists of the seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, Claude Lorrain, and Rembrandt among them, are also represented, Rembrandt by seven drawings, including the large study of Leonardo's Last Supper that would stay in his mind all through his career, whenever he depicted groups of figures conversing with each other. Drawings by Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Gabriel de Saint-Aubin are among the many from eighteenth-century France.

This volume is the ninth to be published in a projected series of sixteen that will catalogue the entire Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. It discusses all 140 drawings at length, placing each in its art historical setting and complementing the discussion with comparative illustrations of related works.

Review:

"This is an elegantly designed and beautifully and generously illustrated book. . . . It is an exceedingly informative volume and can be welcomed as an invaluable contribution to literature."--Burlington Magazine

Table of Contents:

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS by Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann vii
CATALOGUE
Central Europe, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries FRITZ KORENY 1
The Netherlands, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries EGBERT HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN 103
The Southern Netherlands, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries EGBERT HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN 147
The Northern Netherlands, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries EGBERT HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN 177
France, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century MARY TAVENER HOLMES AND DONALD POSNER 291
England, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries DUNCAN ROBINSON 373
Other European Drawings 395
CONCORDANCE 403
BIBLIOGRAPHY 405
INDEX 449

Another Princeton book by Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann:

• The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Paintings: France, Central Europe, The Netherlands, Spain, and Great Britain.

Another Princeton book by Duncan Robinson:

• The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume IX: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Drawings.

Subject Area:

• Art and Architecture

Published in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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