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| POUSSIN, LORRAIN, WATTEAU, FRAGONARD ... | |
Poussin, Lorrain, Watteau, Fragonard...
French Masterpieces of the 17th and 18th
Centuries
from German Collections
17 February – 14 May
2006
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Young Girl Playing with Her Dog
c. 1770-1775
© Munich, Bayerische
Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Links
Bayerischen
Staatsgemäldesammlungen,
Haus
der Kunst, Munich
Réunion
des Musées
Nationaux, Paris
Simon Vouet
Portrait of a young man,
c. 1615-1620, Braunschweig,
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum
© Bernd-Peter Keiser
Project Manager
Dr.
Agnieszka Lulinska
An exhibition of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal
Republic of Germany, Bonn, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich,
Stiftung Haus der Kunst, Munich,
and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris.
This ambitious exhibition is built on the rich collections
of French art that German museums have held and steadily strengthened
for over two centuries. From the baroque exuberance of the followers
of Caravaggio to the severity of Neoclassicism around 1800, it presents
the multifaceted diversity of French painting, examining at the same
time the history of the key German collections themselves, and reflecting
on the impact of French art in this country.
The concept for the exhibition, which is shown at three separate venues,
was developed by Curator Pierre Rosenberg, former President-Director
of the Louvre, the leading expert in the field, as the result of his
systematic review and cataloguing of German museums’ holdings of
French art over the past several years.
Gérard Spaendonck
Still Life with Peaches, c. 1790
© Heidelberg, Kurpfälzisches Museum
The selection of 150 paintings and oil sketches traces
the major developments of French art in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Famous masterpieces by Watteau, Chardin, Lorrain, Poussin, Fragonard
and Boucher are presented next to less well-known works by artists such
as de la Hyre, Valentin, Bourdon and Dughet.
It is chronologically ordered and arranged according to subject matter
such as landscape, portrait, still life and history painting.
The exhibition was made possible by the generous support and commitment
of many of Germany’s museums. Their willingness to part with their
masterpieces has enabled the organisers of this exhibition to bring to
he public a rich picture of the cultural flowering of France in the 17th
and 18th century, and to show how its echoes resonated in the courts
and cultural centres of Germany.
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