A catalogue to accompany the modern porcelain exhibition. Celebrating the continued innovations being produced from the Sèvres Factory. This is a beautifully illustrated book with photographs chronologically From 1740 to the present day.
Price: £30.00
Pomp and Power: French drawings from Versailles
Xavier Salmon
This beautiful catalogue illustrates and discusses fifty - two French drawings from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. All from the chateau de Versailles, which owns one of the finest collections of French drawings in the world.
Price: £14.99
Xanto: Pottery - Painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance
This book is a comprehensive study of Xanto as a remarkable painter of Italian
Renaissance tin - glazed earthenware (maiolica) decorated with narrative subjects.
Price: £20.00
François Boucher: Seductive Visions
Jo Hedley, Curator of Pictures pre-1800
The first monograph to appear on Boucher in English for nearly twenty years, this book fills a much needed gap. Boucher has cried out for reassessment, and here at last, in the tercentenary year of his birth, his work is seen at its very best in numerous beautiful reproductions. Jo Hedley brings new insights into Boucher's art, explaining both his stylistic development and his cultural context; she also examines his legacy, both in a survey of the influence of his imagery in many media and in a deconstruction of the myth of his libidinous personality (based on his art, not his life).
2004 Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 72 1
224 pages
280 x 240 mm, more than 150 colour illus.
Price: £18.95
Richard Parkes Bonington
Stephen Duffy, Curator of Nineteenth-Century Paintings
The Wallace Collection is fortunate to own probably the finest collection in the world of paintings by Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28) - ten oils and twenty-five watercolours. They represent most of his major areas of interest, ranging from richly costumed historical scenes to views in France and northern Italy, particularly Venice. This new book discusses each of these and illustrates all of them in colour for the first time. It also provides a valuable biographical introduction with illustrations of related paintings and drawings by Bonington and his contemporaries. It will appeal not only to those who enjoy the work of this delightful artist but to anyone interested in English painting in one of its greatest eras.
2003 Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 79 9
96 pages
242 x 280 mm 47 colour illustrations, 8 black and white
Price: £14.95
Visions of Venice: The Conservation of Five Venetian View Paintings at the Wallace Collection
Jo Hedley, Curator of Picture Pre 1800
2002 Paperback
ISBN 0953614360
Price: £5.00
Paintings in Wood: French Marquetry Furniture
Yannick Chastang
Marquetry- creating patterns and pictures though inlaid veneers - has long been recognised as one of the most attractive and sophisticated methods of decorating fine furniture; indeed the visually-arresting marquetry compositions of eighteenth-century Paris were described by one contemporary as no less than 'paintings in wood'. Illuminating the marvellous world of beauty conjured up by superlative French craftsmen, including André-Charles Boulle, Jean-François Oeben and Jean-Henri Riesener, this book also reveals the technical secrets of this special art form, its sources and history. Richly illustrated with masterpieces from The Wallace Collection in London and other collections it also examines the extraordinary colour contrasts which would have been seen when the marquetry was first produced.
2001 Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 66 7
112 pages
260 x 210mm 70 colour, 5 b&w illustrations
Price: £15.00
Van Dyck at The Wallace Collection
Jo Hedley, Curator of Pictures Pre 1800
The Wallace Collection commemorates the 400th anniversary of Van Dyck's birth with this publication. The book examines Van Dyck's artistic achievement through the in-depth study of a selection of paintings, including portraits of Philippe le Roy, his teenage bride Marie de Raet and Isabelle Waerbecke, wife of painter Paul de Vos as well as his lyrical work, The Shepherd Paris. Van Dyck's wider influence, both in his own day and after, is discussed through works by his followers and imitators, while the artist's appeal to collectors is demonstrated through an account of how and why the pictures associated with Van Dyck entered the Wallace Collection. A multitude of illustrations as well as examinations of iconography, technique, dating and studio practices produce an insightful and informative read.
1999 Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 640
166 pages
240 x 280 mm 87 colour and 39 b&w illustrations
Price: £14.95
Paul Delaroche 1797-1856. Paintings in the Wallace Collection
Stephen Duffy, Curator of Nineteenth-Century Paintings
Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) was one of the most important French artists of the nineteenth century. His historical scenes, including The Princes in the Tower (1830) and Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833), drew huge crowds at the Paris Salon, and a mural he painted for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts showing The Artists of All Ages became the most famous monumental painting in France. Reproductive engravings after his pictures helped make them familiar throughout the western world and his work was the first to be extensively photographed. Shortly after his death, however, he was largely forgotten and it is only recently that his pictures have again attracted popular and academic interest. This publication marks the bicentenary of Delaroche's birth, and is not only the first in-depth study of the most important collection of Delaroche's paintings outside Paris, but the only concise introduction to the artist available.
1997 Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 62 4
98 pages
277 x 238mm 20 colour illustrations, 30 black & white illustrations
Price: £4.95
Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-70)
Professor Francis Haskell, Stephen Duffy, Robert Wenley and David Edge
Produced on the occasion of a special exhibition, this catalogue is divided into two sections. An extensive essay by Professor Francis Haskell explores the life and tastes of Anatole Demidoff, a flamboyant Russian émigré who lived in Paris and at the sumptuous Villa San Donato near Florence. The following section catalogues eighty of his paintings and works of art now in The Wallace Collection, and examines their context within their respective collections. Illustrated in colour throughout, and with supplementary appendices and bibliography, this catalogue provides a valuable insight into taste and connoisseurship in the nineteenth century, and into the formation of one of the greatest private collections of all time, The Wallace Collection itself.
1994 Paperback
ISBN 0 900785 40 3
120 pages
290 x 205mm 75 colour, 12 black & white illustrations
