Word: canaletto
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...Italy," wrote Critic Give Bell last April in The London Studio, "has not produced a great painter since Canaletto" (1697-1768), but before Canaletto Italy produced enough great painters for all time. To set forth the latter fact spectacularly to France and the world seemed to Henry de Jouvenel, brilliant French diplomat, journalist and Italophile, an admirable way for Italy and France to clasp hands more tightly against Adolf Hitler. Last week he had assembled in Paris' Petit Palais a collection of Italian old masters that was in fact "the greatest the world has ever seen...
...galleries, its classrooms and offices, the museum boasts a fully equipped stage. On view in its permanent collection last week was a small but extremely well chosen group of those 18th Century portraitists that tycoons loved to collect before Depression: Gainsborough. Lawrence, Raeburn, Reynolds, Romney and Benjamin West, besides Canaletto, Guardi and Goya...
...seem, at first thought, to be purely nonsensical, but with longer inspection of these drawings, it will be found that his nonsense becomes mingled more and more with passionate reality until it fixes itself in admirable concentration and observation. The other artists represented are Holbein, Fragonard, Delacroix, Watteau, Canaletto, and Duerer. For the visitor, we suggest the mental attitude inspired by the great Delacroix horse, perhaps the most conspicuous drawing in the room
...French school is represented by Fragonard, Meryon, Berthe Morison, Renoir Legros, lithographs by Ingres and Dannier, and potraits by Nanteuil. There is a characteristic etching by Goya, the Spaniard, and among the Italians there is a specimen of Canaletto...
...Angelico's Day of Judgment; Piero di Cosimo's panels of the life of Jason; Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man, which brought $55,062; four sentimental Boucher panels for $86,184. There were also in the collection paintings by Constable, Hogarth, Raeburn, Turner, Murillo, Canaletto, Ghirlandajo, Andrea del Sarto, Veronese, Rubens, Jordaens, Teniers, Van Dyck, de Hooch, Ruysdael, Ter Borch, Van der Cappelle, Mme. Le Brun...