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La Collection La Caze
Chefs-d’œuvre des peintures des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles du musée du Louvre
Under the direction of Sophie Eloy, Guillaume Faroult
Contributions by Guillaume Ambroise, Thierry Bajou, Sylvie Béguin, Carole Blumenfeld, Laetitia Bolle, Claire Constans, Marie-Martine Dubreuil, Blaise Ducos, Élisabeth Foucart-Walter, Jean Habert, Jo Hedley, Stéphane Loire, Lucia Martinez, Olivier Meslay, Vincent Pomarède, Pierre Rosenberg, Violène Verduron
€ 45.65 tax included
Series
Histoire des collections du musée du LouvreTechnical details
288 pages, paperback, 20 x 27 cm, 250 illustrations in a color book. 1 CD-ROM comprising the full collection, i.e. 584 entries along with their reproduction and a history.
Publication date
2007Related event
This book accompanies the exhibition held at the Musée du Louvre from April 26 to July 9, 2007: “1869: Watteau, Chardin… join the Louvre. The La Caze collection.”
Period
17th-18th centuries978-2-75410-178-3
Co-publisher(s)
Hazan
Bequeathed to the State in 1869, the collection of Dr Louis La Caze (1798-1869) is undoubtedly the finest set of old paintings the Louvre has ever received. La Caze stood out at the time by both the scope of his generosity and the humility of his approach. Contemporaries and art historians alike emphasized the quality, coherence and audacity of the collector’s choices.
Art lovers will find the Louvre’s finest 18th-century paintings in this book, as well as Rembrandt’s Bathsheba, Frans Hals’s Bohemian Girl and Ribera’s Boy with Club-foot.