The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Paintings: France, Central ... COLLECTION IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART) - Tapa dura

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 245 pages; Series: The Robert Lehman collection, 2. Physical description: x, 245 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 29 cm. Summary: In this volume, forty-two remarkable paintings collected by Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, are discussed at length in light of recent technical and art historical research. Among the works catalogued here are Petrus Christus' "Goldsmith in His Shop" of 1449, which is justly famous as one of the first northern European paintings to depict everyday life, and Hans Memling's "Portrait of a Young Man" (ca. 1475-80), in which the sitter is posed before a landscape, a formula that had lasting repercussions in Italian as well as Northern art. Also included is Memling's "Annunciation", one of his finest and most original works. Well-known paintings by Simon Marmion, Jean Hey, Gerard David, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Younger, Hans Holbein, Gerard Terborch, Pieter de Hooch, Rembrandt, and El Greco all represent in their own way the best of the era and place in which they were created, as do masterful portraits by Francisco de Goya, George Romney, and Sir Henry Raeburn. All the paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection are reproduced in full color, supplemented by numerous comparative duotone illustrations. Subjects: Lehman, Robert, 1892-1969 -- Art collections -- Catalogs.