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In 1900 The More Than Five Hundred Gouaches And Ink Drawings Made By James Jacques Joseph Tissot For His Life Of Christ Were Purchased By Public Subscription By The Brooklyn Museum, And In 1992 A Sketchbook By Tissot, Related To This Series, Was Also Purchased For The Collection. Over The Intervening Years Nearly One Hundred Other Works On Paper By Nineteenth-century French Artists Entered The Collection. Many Of Them Are By Artists Now Considered To Be The Major Masters Of Their Time; But There Are Also Works By Other Artists, Both Academic And Avant-garde, Less Familiar To The American Public Today, Who Deserve Recognition. This Collection - Which Spans A Century Of Creativity And A Subsequent Century Of Collecting, Thus Preserving A Portion Of Our Cultural And Artistic Heritage - Is One Of The Significant Holdings Of Works On Paper At This Great Museum. This Volume Is Part Of An Ongoing Series Devoted To The Museum's Outstanding And Encyclopedic Collection Of Works On Paper. It Presents Ninety-three Drawings, Watercolors, And Pastels By Some Fifty Artists, Ranging From Fragonard Through Corot, Millet, Daumier, And Rodin; The Impressionists Degas, Manet, Morisot, And Pissarro; Th

Author

Brooklyn Museum, Karyn Zieve, Sarah Faunce, Linda Konheim Kramer

Publisher

Hudson Hills Press in association with the Brooklyn Museum : Distributed in the U.S. by National Book Network

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555950873

Subjects

Art, Arts