Who framed Madame Moitessier?
Nicholas Penny, 9 April 1992
Metropolitan Jewellery
by Sophie McConnell.
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Bulfinch, 111 pp., £17.99, November 1991,0 8212 1877 8 Show More
by Sophie McConnell.
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Bulfinch, 111 pp., £17.99, November 1991,
Italian Renaissance Frames
by Timothy Newbery, George Bisacca and Laurence Kanter.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 111 pp., £25, May 1991,0 8109 3455 8 Show More
by Timothy Newbery, George Bisacca and Laurence Kanter.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 111 pp., £25, May 1991,
The Italian Renaissance Interior 1400-1600
by Peter Thornton.
Weidenfeld, 407 pp., £65, October 1991,0 297 83006 6 Show More
by Peter Thornton.
Weidenfeld, 407 pp., £65, October 1991,
Palaces of Art
edited by Giles Waterfield.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, 188 pp., £20, December 1991,0 9501564 5 0 Show More
edited by Giles Waterfield.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, 188 pp., £20, December 1991,
“... The pale blue, wide-open eyes of Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc, under their large geometrically-perfect lids, are placed high on the canvas, to the left of its centre, and it seems a great distance down her long neck and the gently undulating slopes of her black satin dress – over which a gold watch-chain drops, and beside which a languid arm, veiled in tulle, is arranged – to her hand in the lower right corner of the painting, which reposes upon a diamond rivière, as upon a tiny pet, half-concealed in the folds of what must be her lap ... ”
