Jacques Thuillier Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

A compact edition of a major monograph that offers insights into the life and work of the seventeenth-century master Georges de La Tour. Georges de La Tour ranks with Vermeer and the Le Nain brothers among those seventeenth-century painters whose unmistakable talent is matched only by their aura of mystery. This groundbreaking monograph uses original correspondence and archival documents to reconstruct the master’s life and practices. Influenced by Caravaggio, La Tour created a form of realism that displays rare poetic beauty. The attention to detail, from the dirt under a saint’s fingernails to the wavering flame of a girl’s candle, is highlighted in full-page close-ups, while the paintings are contextualized by color reproductions of works that influenced, and were influenced by, La Tour. Available for the first time in a compact edition, complete with an illustrated catalogue, bibliography, and key documentary sources, this remains the essential reference work on a fascinating artist.

Les frères Le Nain: Grand Palais, 3 octobre 1978-8 janvier 1979.

Le cousin Pons is Balzac’s last novel in his grand series ‘La comédie humaine’. Pons is an elderly man, conductor of a theatre orchestra. Pons is dying. His inheritance is meant for his friend Schmucke. But some other people get their hands on Pons’s money and possessions. The novel has many beautiful characterizations, a well-drawn social context of the French middle class in the first half of the nineteenth century, it has a variety of emotions, and excitement in the development of the plot. JM