Enfilade

The eighteenth century in the June issue of The Burlington (with apologies for being so slow to post, –CH) . . .

The Burlington Magazine 165 (June 2023)

e d i t o r i a l

• “The Future of the RIBA Drawings Collection,” p. 583.

a r t i c l e s

• Tessa Murdoch, “Roubiliac and Sprimont: A Friendship Revisited,” pp. 600–11.
Recent research into the circles of Huguenot artists and craftsmen working in London in the mid-eighteenth century has provided new evidence about the friendship and working relationship between the sculptor Louis-François Roubiliac and the goldsmith Nicholas Sprimont. This lends weight to the belief that Roubiliac provided small models for casting  in silver and bronze as well as for the porcelain manufactory co-founded by Sprimont in Chelsea in 1745.

• Perrin Stein, “Liotard and Boucher: A Question of Precedence,” pp. 612–19.
There has been much debate about whether Liotard or Boucher invented the motif of a woman in Turkish costume reading a book while reclining on a sofa, which appears in both their work in the 1740s. New evidence that resolves the question highlights the very different ways these two artists constructed exoticism.

• Ann Gunn, “Titian’s Perseus and Andromeda: A Missing Link in the Chain of Provenance,” pp. 620–22.

• Simon Spier and Judith Phillips, “Joséphine Bowes’s Gift to Napoleon III: Antoine-Jean Gros’s Napoleon Distributing the Cross of the Legion of Honour to Artists during His Visit to the Salon of 1808,” pp. 626–29.

r e v i e w s

• Alexandra Gajewski, “The New Museum in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris,” pp. 630–37.
When in 1995–98 the books of the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, were moved to their monumental new home in the west of the city, the library’s historic collections of antiquities, coins, medals, and other precious objects remained in the original complex of buildings in central Paris where they had been shown since the eighteenth century. Their reinstallation in the library’s newly restored museum rooms was opened last year.

• Kirstin Kennedy, Review of the exhibition Treasures from Faraway: Medieval and Renaissance Objects from The Schroder Collection (Strawberry Hill, 2023), pp. 641–43.

• Aileen Dawson, Review of the exhibition English Delftware (Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (from February 2023), pp. 652–54.

• Belinda Thomson, Review of the exhibition Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2023), pp. 654–57. [In Paris, the show is entitled Berthe Morisot et l’art du XVIIIe siècle: Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Perronneau]

• J. V. G. Mallet, Review of Lilli Hollein, Rainald Franz, and Timothy Wilson, eds., Tin-Glaze and Image Culture: The MAK Maiolica Collection in its Wider Context (Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2022), pp. 660–62.

• Clare Hornsby, Review of Andrew Robinson, Piranesi: Earliest Drawings / I primi disegni (Artemide Edizioni, 2022), pp. 666–67.

• G. A. Bremner, Review of Gauvin Alexander Bailey, The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022), pp. 667–68

o b i t u a r y

• Peter Hecht, Obituary for Ger Luijten (1956–2022), pp. 675–76.

s u p p l e m e n t

• Recent Acquisitions (2016–22) of European Works of Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts