Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800–1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tinterow, Gary, Kathryn Calley Galitz, Asher E. Miller, Rebecca A. Rabinow, Sabine Rewald, and Susan Alyson Stein (2007)

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This lavishly illustrated volume features a broad selection of the Metropolitan Museum's greatest European paintings dating from 1800–1920. Pictures by sixty-seven artists from nine different countries are included, but the focus is on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist French painting, of which the Museum possesses the most comprehensive collection outside of France.

Portraits by Ingres, landscapes by Corot, powerful examples in both these genres by the Realist Courbet, and pictures by the Barbizon painters Millet and Doubigny exemplify developments in early nineteenth-century art and prefigure the works of the Impressionists. Paintings by the luminaries of the movement—Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pisarro, and Sisley—form the dazzling centerpiece of the book, and they in turn foreshadow the revolutionary visions of the Post-Impressionists Gauguin and Van Gogh, the Nabi painters Bonnard and Vuillard, the modern master Matisse, and the early Picasso. One sumptuous color-plate succeeds another, accompanied by informed commentary written by the scholars who know the collection best.

The volume opens with an essay by Gary Tinterow, longtime curator of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European paintings at the Metropolitan. He describes the formation of the collection and the process of creating appropriate gallery spaces to house it. From 1870, when the Museum was founded, to the present day, many curators and architects have labored to improve and enlarge the spaces in which the collection is presented. Comparative photographs document the successive stages in the evolution of the galleries for paintings and sculpture.

The book concludes with full documentation of the 193 featured paintings: each is illustrated for a second time, in black and white, and provided with a full provenance and exhibition history and a selected bibliography.

Table of contents

Director's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Notes to the Reader

New Galleries for Old
Gary Tinterow

Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800–1920
Kathryn Calley Galitz, Asher Ethan Miller, Rebecca A. Rabinow, Sabine Rewald, Susan Alyson Stein, and Gary Tinterow

Documentation
Index of Artists and Works
Photograph Credits

About the authors

Gary Tinterow is Engelhard Curator in Charge, Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sabine Rewald is Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator, Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Susan Alyson Stein is Curator, Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Rebecca A. Rabinow is Associate Curator and Administrator, Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Kathryn Calley Galitz is Assistant Curator, Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Asher Ethan Miller is Research Associate, Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Library Journal

"... stunning high-quality reproductions ... it is the paintings themselves and their truly beautiful reproductions that rule the pages and make this a wonderful addition to any specialized art or academic library collection."

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