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Item Number: 107521
Title: A Pioneering Collection : Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum
Author: Breazeale, William ; with Cara Denison, Stacey Sell and Freyda Spira
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781884038174
Description: London: Holberton, 2010. 26cm., pbk., 172pp., 100 color illus. Summary: The master drawings at the Crocker Art Museum, dating from the late-15th to the mid-19th centuries, form an unusually rich and historic collection, known to include of many keystones of the history of art. Sheets by Carpaccio, Dürer, Callot, and Boucher only scratch the surface of a collection whose sources include the great eighteenth-century collectors Pierre-Jean Mariette, Pierre Crozat, Joshua Reynolds, and Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville; their 17th-century predecessors Evrard Jabach, Nicolas Lanier, Jan Pietersz. Zoomer, and Pieter Lely; as well as 19th-century collectors like William Esdaile, Thomas Lawrence, and Dominique Vivant-Denon. Purchased for the most part in 1869-71 by the founders of the Crocker Art Museum, the works are in some ways a time capsule that gives insight into the European art market and the taste of the patrons. Through this catalogue the Museum introduces a selection of the best drawings to the public for the first time, and provides a splendid overview of this unique collection, shedding fuller light on its history and context, both in relation to California events and to American patronage.
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