Word: watteau
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fine arts of France, more attention was paid to artistic importance than to historical completeness. Grenville Winthrop '91, J. P. Morgan '10, Harris Whittemore, Adolph Lewissohn, Philip Lehman, Duveen Brothers--are a few of the lenders. Old tapestries, furniture, sculptures by Houdon, Falconet, and Clodion, and paintings by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Aubin, represent the earlier periods of French Art. The nineteenth century is exemplified by some of the best work of famous French masters...
...exhibition will represent the important periods in French Art from the 13th century to the present day and will include: illuminated manuscripts and panel paintings from the Morgan collection; several important examples of early Gothic sculpture: 18th century paintings and drawings by Watteau, Fragonard, Bouchet, Vigee, Le Brun, and Nattier; important examples of 18th century sculpture, including the Diana by Houdon and works by Clodion and Falconet. There will also be 19th century paintings by David, Deacroix, Corot, Courbet, Benoir, Monet, and Degas...
...number of important additions have recently been made to the collection of drawings in the Fogg Art Museum. They include examples by Trepolo, Fragonard, Watteau, and Rubons. The collection is new unusually representative of the drawings produced from the early Renaissance to the present...
...blame such a play as "The Professor's Love Story" for having no seriousness of purpose were as silly a to blame Watteau for lacking the violent passion of a cartoonist like Boardman Robinson. To say that the play is trivial is merely to tell a lie. It is, moreover, to forget that there are such qualities as subtlety and niceness and that their effect may be quite a powerful as that produced by the shouting of a Danton. Barrie may be a greater influence than Brieux...