Product Description: Over the course of the 18th century a great number of artists, ranging from established painters and sculptors to amateurs, experimented with etching, an accessible form of printmaking akin to drawing. In a period when artists strained to navigate the highly regulated Académie Royale and the increasingly discordant public spheres of the marketplace and the Salon, etching afforded them stylistic freedom and allowed them to produce exquisite works of art in a spirit of collaboration and experimentation...read more

Product Description: Drawings by acknowledged masters and lesser-known artists and a broad range of subject matter characterize the one hundred sheets reproduced in this volume.

This handsome book reproduces and describes fifty of the most prized paintings in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Included are the most recent acquisitions--Van Gogh's Irises, Titian's Venus and Adonis, Canaletto's View of the Grand Canal, and Pontormo's Portrait of Cosimo de'Medici--as well as such great works as Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi, Carpaccio's Hunting on the Lagoon, van Dyck's Portrait of Agostino Pallavicini, ter Brugghen's Woman with an Ape, Rembrandt's Saint Bartholomew, Poussin's Holy Family, David's Portrait of the Sisters Zénaide and Charlotte Bonaparte, Renoir's La Promenade, Ensor's Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1888, and Alma Tadema's Spring.