Download Free Catalogue Of The Very Celebrated Collection Of Works Of Art The Property Of Samuel Rogers Esq Deceased Comprising Ancient And Modern Pictures Drawings And Engravings Egyptian Greek And Roman Antiquitues Greek Vases Marbles Bronzes And Terra Cottas And Coins Also The Extensive Library Copies Of Rogers Poems Illustrated The Small Service Of Plate And Wine Which Will Be Sold By Auction By Messrs Christie And Manson At Their Great Room 8 King Street St Jamess Square On Monday April 28 1856 And Eighteen Following Days Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online Catalogue Of The Very Celebrated Collection Of Works Of Art The Property Of Samuel Rogers Esq Deceased Comprising Ancient And Modern Pictures Drawings And Engravings Egyptian Greek And Roman Antiquitues Greek Vases Marbles Bronzes And Terra Cottas And Coins Also The Extensive Library Copies Of Rogers Poems Illustrated The Small Service Of Plate And Wine Which Will Be Sold By Auction By Messrs Christie And Manson At Their Great Room 8 King Street St Jamess Square On Monday April 28 1856 And Eighteen Following Days and write the review.

Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, embraced traditional and modern masters. This work catalogues 130 nineteenth- and 20th-century paintings that are part of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. It includes paintings by Ingres, Theodore Rousseau, and Corot among other early 19th-century artists. In addition to a group of early German drawings, this 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. It discusses all drawings, placing each in its art historical setting and complementing it with comparative illustrations of related works.
The twenty-seven illuminations catalogued in this volume-part of a series cataloguing the more than two thousand works of art in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art-include illustrations for manuscripts and early instances of small paintings on parchment conceived as independent works of art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
How medieval manuscripts were understood in the 19th and 20th centuries is the basis for this volume co-written by four art historians; Hindman (Northwestern U.), Michael Camille (U. of Chicago), Rowan Watson (Victoria and Albert Museum), and Nina Rowe (Block Museum, Northwestern U.). The attitudes