Böcker utgivna av Trustees of the Wallace Collection

Published to accompany the exhibition held 4 Oct.- 31 Dec. 2001 at the Wallace Collection.

The collections of glassware and Limoges painted enamels acquired by Sir Richard Wallace may at first glance seem unlikely bedfellows. Yet both are `arts of fire' and both are `vitreous art', albeit with rather different aesthetic ends.

Published to accompany the exhibition "Jean de Jullienne: Collector & Connoisseur" as part of "Esprit et Vaeritae. Watteau and his Circle" at the Wallace Collection, London, 12 March - 5 June 2011.

This publication marks the bicentenary of Delaroche's death. It represents an in-depth study of many of his most famous paintings, which form part of the Wallace Collection. These include the historical scenes "The Princes in the Tower" and the "Execution of Lady Jane Grey".

This work discusses each painting of the Wallace collection of Richard Parkes Bonington and illustrates all of them in colour. It also provides a biographical introduction with illustrations of related paintings and drawings by Bonington and his contemporaries.

Of exquisite workmanship, the Wallace gold boxes share the elaborate richness of the larger-scale French 18th century art in the collection, but on an intimate and jewel-like scale. Most of the boxes were made in Paris during the 18th century and were used as snuff containers. Whilst there were boxes of this kind made in gold before 1700, it was the popularity of snuff-taking that necessitated the development of a container, which came to be of such luxurious nature that it became the most significant royal gift and the ultimate fashion accessory across the whole of 18th century Europe. Here Charles Truman, former curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, discusses the history of snuff and snuff-taking as well as the development, manufacture, decoration and collecting of gold boxes.

One of the most famous and influential artists of the eighteenth century, Jean-Antoine Watteau (c. 16841721) fundamentally changed the course of French painting. With masterpieces such as Les charmes de la vie, Lady at her Toilet and Les Champs lises, the Wallace Collection preserves one of the three outstanding collections of his paintings worldwide (together with Paris and Berlin) but it has never before been the subject of a special exhibition or a separate study.