Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Paintings in The Robert Lehman Collection

This book is the fourth to be published in a series of volumes that will be the first complete scholarly catalogue of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art–a collection of paintings, drawings, and decorative-arts objects that possesses in itself the breadth and quality of a major museum. The 116 Italian drawings …

The five sketchbooks and twenty-two single drawings catalogued in this volume, many of them for the first time, are among the more than 2000 works of art collected by Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, that since 1975 have been housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. …

This volume surveys an incomparable group of 18th-century Italian drawings, seen in 241 duotone illustrations and presented by two of the leading scholars in the field. Most of the drawings are Venetian, including major works by Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and his son Domenico Tiepolo. …

Among the exquisite pieces of glass in Robert Lehman's collection are many that exhibit the consummate skill of Venetian glassmakers and explain why Venetian glass was so coveted in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. …