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...represented here. The accomplishment of the sixteenth can be seen in aportrait by Francois Clouet, of the seventeenth in a wash drawing of landscape by Claude. The special character of the eighteenth, in attitude as in drawing is revealed in a series of red crayon studies by Watteau and Fragonard, Boucher and Greuze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

Artistically, the show's most impressive items were the Houdon portrait busts of Franklin, Voltaire, Lafayette and John Paul Jones, and an allegorical engraving of Franklin's genius by Jean Honore Fragonard. Paintings began with Harvard's stiff, colonial portrait of Franklin at about the age of 42, attributed to the early New England painter, Robert Feke. A studious characteristic pose was that of the famed "thumb portrait," done in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Franklin & Friends | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...aging Rembrandt in a velvet cap. Other famed numbers include Titian's Man in a Red Cap, Titian's portrait of the bearded, obscene Pietro Aretino; Raeburn's portraits of James Cruickshank & wife; the immensely valuable St. Francis in Ecstacy by Giovanni Bellini; eleven Fragonard panels for which Frick reputedly paid J. P. Morgan more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cokeman's Collection | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...million dollars was a conservative estimate of the show's total value. Gaping gallery-goers liked best three lush canvases by the father of French postcards, sensuous Francois Boucher (1703-70). Serious painters were most excited by the opportunity to see six first-rate canvases by Jean Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), an artist who antedated the Impressionists by almost a century in their passion for the effects of light and air on color. Other important numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grand Siecle | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...future editions of his book, Francisco de Goya. Within a month it was sold to Mrs. William R. Timken, sister-in-law of Henry Holiday Timken, maker of Timken Roller Bearings (TIME, Aug. 19). Well known only to dealers is Mrs. Timken's collection which includes a Boucher, a Fragonard, a Gainsborough and a brace each of Greuzes. Rembrandts and Van Dycks. The lady with the parrot is Mrs. Timken's only Goya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spaniards in Brooklyn | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

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