Paintings in the Hermitage

Eisler, Colin. Introduction by B. B. Piotrovsky & V. A. Suslov

ISBN 10: 1556701594 / ISBN 13: 9781556701597

Verlag: Steward, Tabori & Chang, New York, 1990

Beschreibung

4to, 653 pp., color plates throughout. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped; a couple of small tears to cloth at top of rear board near crown; small faint dampstain to rear board; a few small specks and spots to covers, page edges and endpapers; stains to top edge. Interior clean, bright and unmarked. Jacket sunned, handled and edgeworn, with 3" piece missing at head of spine, tape-repair. NOTE: Large, heavy book, may require extra postage. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17116

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Paintings in the Hermitage

Verlag: Steward, Tabori & Chang, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1990

Einband: Cloth

Zustand: Very Good in Poor Dust Jacket

Auflage: First edition.

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Inhaltsangabe:

An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 653 pages; Description: 653 p. : col. Ill. ; 30 cm. Subjects: Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (Russia) --Catalogs. Painting --Russia (Federation) --Saint Petersburg --Catalogs.

Reseña del editor:

More than 750 works in this book include many of those acquired by Catherine the Great as well as hundreds of other added more recently. The book features paintings from 18th-and 19th-century France, with major canvases by Boucher, Fragonard, Watteau, Claude Lorrain, Hubert Robert, David Ingres, Courbet, Corot, the paintings of the Dutch and Flemish Baroque which include Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son" and his "Descent from the Cross", as well as examples of works by Hals, Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens. It includes works by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse. It also features works of the Italian Renaissance, Spanish paintings and paintings from England, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium and the United States.