Böcker i Wallace Collection-serien

Describes in detail 151 paintings and 60 drawings of British, German, Italian and Spanish schools.

Studies paintings and watercolors by French artists.

English, French and Continental miniaatures from the 16th to 19th centuries, fully described and illustrated.

The fourth volume of this catalogue focuses mainly on Dutch and Flemish oeuvres of the 17th century and includes 219 paintings and two drawings. of which 173 are Dutch and 48 are Flemish. They include pictures by Rembrandt, Rubens, van Dyck, ter Borch and Ruisdael. There is also an introductory essay, which explores 19th-century taste as it is reflected in the selection of Dutch and Flemish pictures in the Wallace Collection.

This third volume in the catalogue features 144 paintings and 8 drawings and watercolors, 140 of which date from the 18th century. The collection includes 19 paintings by Boucher, eight by Fragonard and 7 by Watteau. There are also works by Poussin, Claude and Philippe de Champaigne. An introductory essay describes the circumstances in which the 4th Marquess of Hertford, the chief collector of the works represented, collected his French 18th-century paintings.

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, June 15-Dec. 1, 2007.

Accompanying an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, this catalog will seek to examine relationships between these two works and their creation, focusing on establishing common threads drawn from contemporary French social and cultural history. When seen together, the two paintings acquire a new resonance, showing the imaginative and Parisian response of two very different painters to a new interest in scenes from everyday life. The paintings are examined in the context of a dozen further works by the artists, and prints, drawings, books and decorative art objects including oriental textiles and porcelain. This provides an opportunity to address undercurrent social history themes, such as the artists attitudes to fashion, interior decoration, and even the consumption of tea a pastime borne from the contemporary fashion in eighteenth-century France and Great Britain for anything oriental, influenced by new trade links with China.