Muriel Butkin has a fine private collection of master drawings, more than 450 in all. She has concentrated on French artists of the 18th and 19th centuries, with particular focus on figure studies, portraits, animals, interiors, mythological subjects, unusual landscapes, and sketchbooks. This volume publishes 59 of the most important drawings, each reproduced in duotone and accompanied by a comprehensive essay. Among them are works by artists such as Coypel, Boucher, Greuze, David, Gericault, Millet, Degas, Carot, Daubigny, Rodin and Puvis de Chavannes, as well as previously unknown rarities.
- ISBN10 0940717670
- ISBN13 9780940717671
- Publish Date 31 August 2001
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Hudson Hills Press Inc.,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English