Thursday, October 10, 2013
Books in Art, V
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), Moine italien assis, lisant, in Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo:
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), Two Monks Reading, in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (A482):
Théophile Gide (1822-1890), Le Réfectoire de la Grande Chartreuse, la Dictée, in Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes:
François Marius Granet (1775-1845), Hermit Reading, in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (accession number PD.65-1997):
Eduard von Grützner (1846-1925), Lesender Prämonstratenser Mönch, sold by Neumeister:
Hans Adolf Hornemann (1866-1913), Lesender Mönch, sold by Neumeister (Munich; March 12, 2008; lot 672):
Franz Reichardt (1825-1887), Pater Prior in der Klosterbibliothek, sold by Zeller (Lindau; December 6, 2012; lot 2647):
Alessandro Sani (1856-1927), In der Klosterbibliothek, sold by Van Ham (Cologne; November 16, 2012, lot 846):
Carl Schleicher, Ein lesender Mönch, sold by Dorotheum (Vienna; April 28, 2011; lot 216):
Fritz Wagner (1896-1939), Kardinal mit drei Mönchen in einer Klosterbibliothek, sold by Hampel (Munich; March 25, 2011; lot 472):
Fritz Wagner (1896-1939), Mönch bei der Lektüre, sold by Van Ham (December 15, 2001; lot 443):
Reinhard Sebastian Zimmerman (1815-1893), Monastic Library, in Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number 1064-1886):
Anonymous, A Smiling Monk Reading, in National Trust Collections (inventory number 744023), on exhibit at Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire:
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), Two Monks Reading, in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (A482):
Théophile Gide (1822-1890), Le Réfectoire de la Grande Chartreuse, la Dictée, in Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes:
François Marius Granet (1775-1845), Hermit Reading, in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (accession number PD.65-1997):
Eduard von Grützner (1846-1925), Lesender Prämonstratenser Mönch, sold by Neumeister:
Hans Adolf Hornemann (1866-1913), Lesender Mönch, sold by Neumeister (Munich; March 12, 2008; lot 672):
Franz Reichardt (1825-1887), Pater Prior in der Klosterbibliothek, sold by Zeller (Lindau; December 6, 2012; lot 2647):
Alessandro Sani (1856-1927), In der Klosterbibliothek, sold by Van Ham (Cologne; November 16, 2012, lot 846):
Carl Schleicher, Ein lesender Mönch, sold by Dorotheum (Vienna; April 28, 2011; lot 216):
Fritz Wagner (1896-1939), Kardinal mit drei Mönchen in einer Klosterbibliothek, sold by Hampel (Munich; March 25, 2011; lot 472):
Fritz Wagner (1896-1939), Mönch bei der Lektüre, sold by Van Ham (December 15, 2001; lot 443):
Reinhard Sebastian Zimmerman (1815-1893), Monastic Library, in Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number 1064-1886):
Anonymous, A Smiling Monk Reading, in National Trust Collections (inventory number 744023), on exhibit at Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire:
Labels: books in art
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Books in Art, IV
Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), Thy Word is a Lamp unto My Feet and a Light unto My Path, in Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (Accession Number F79-12):
Carl Johann Spielter (1841-1922), Sonntag Nachmittag, sold for €2,881 at Uppsala Auktionskammare (December 6, 2011; lot 1082):
Carl Johann Spielter (1841-1922), Sonntag Nachmittag, sold for €2,881 at Uppsala Auktionskammare (December 6, 2011; lot 1082):
Labels: books in art
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Books in Art, III
Louis Block (1848-1901?), A Still Life of Antiquarian Books, sold for £2,990 at Christie's sale 5937 (April 7, 1998; London, King Street; British Watercolours; lot 139):
Louis Block (1848-1901?), 'In a Library We Are Surrounded by Friends', sold for £3,600 at Bonham's auction 14300 (June 6, 2006; London, New Bond Street; Fine British and Continental Watercolours and Drawings; lot 117):
Louis Block (1848-1901?), The Bibliophile's Desk, sold for £1,680 at Bonham's auction 15800 (June 17, 2008; London, Knightsbridge; British, Continental and Old Master Paintings; lot 96):
If you click on The Bibliophile's Desk, you can see an edition of Lucan. Enough detail is provided to identify it as M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia: sive de bello civili inter Caesarem & Pompeium libri decem (Londini: ex officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts, 1719).
Information about Louis Block is hard to find. See the entry "BLOCK, L." in Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press (accessed July 30, 2013 at http://proxy.bostonathenaeum.org:2219/subscriber/article/benezit/B00020994):
Ian Jackson writes:
Louis Block (1848-1901?), 'In a Library We Are Surrounded by Friends', sold for £3,600 at Bonham's auction 14300 (June 6, 2006; London, New Bond Street; Fine British and Continental Watercolours and Drawings; lot 117):
Louis Block (1848-1901?), The Bibliophile's Desk, sold for £1,680 at Bonham's auction 15800 (June 17, 2008; London, Knightsbridge; British, Continental and Old Master Paintings; lot 96):
If you click on The Bibliophile's Desk, you can see an edition of Lucan. Enough detail is provided to identify it as M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia: sive de bello civili inter Caesarem & Pompeium libri decem (Londini: ex officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts, 1719).
Information about Louis Block is hard to find. See the entry "BLOCK, L." in Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press (accessed July 30, 2013 at http://proxy.bostonathenaeum.org:2219/subscriber/article/benezit/B00020994):
L. Block exhibited from 1879 at the Royal Academy, the Suffolk Street galleries with the Royal Society of British Artists and the New Water-Colour Society, all in London.
Ian Jackson writes:
Did you notice, in the same painting that shows the 1719 Tonson Lucan, that the open manuscript prints lines 552-3 from Book Two of Gay's Trivia?
Volumes on shelter'd stalls expanded lie
And various science lures the learned eye
Labels: books in art
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Books in Art, II
El Greco (1541-1614), Saint Jerome as Scholar, in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1975.1.146):
El Greco (1541-1614), Portrait Of Dr. Francisco De Pisa, in Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (1977.05):
El Greco (1541-1614), San Simón, in Museo del Greco, Toledo, Spain (CE00008):
El Greco (1541-1614), Portrait Of Dr. Francisco De Pisa, in Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (1977.05):
El Greco (1541-1614), San Simón, in Museo del Greco, Toledo, Spain (CE00008):
Labels: books in art
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Books in Art, I
I'm aware of two blogs dedicated to the theme of books in art:
Unfortunately, there have been no new posts on these blogs for months, and for all I know they may be defunct. I have my own digital collection of paintings featuring books and readers (many culled from those two blogs), and I'll post some of them here when I can't think of anything else to blog about, which happens increasingly often these days.
Alexandre Antigna (1817-1878), La fille du bouquiniste (1855), in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle:
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Unfortunately, there have been no new posts on these blogs for months, and for all I know they may be defunct. I have my own digital collection of paintings featuring books and readers (many culled from those two blogs), and I'll post some of them here when I can't think of anything else to blog about, which happens increasingly often these days.
Alexandre Antigna (1817-1878), La fille du bouquiniste (1855), in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle:
Labels: books in art
