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Rousseau, Theodore (1979)
This title is out of print.
My introductory note to this little volume must be no more than an extremely personal, very fractional acknowledgment of the debt I owe to Theodore Rousseau. I began my career under his wise and friendly direction in the Department of European Paintings, and it was he who taught me how to look at a work of art and how to weigh its qualities. His own responses were so sincere and his manner of teaching so clear and so kindly that I think I have never, since those early days, confronted a painting, or indeed any object of artistic worth, without adopting in my critical attitudes and in my appreciation some of his own approach. The rare men who achieve this gift for warm communication with their colleagues never really die, because they pass on so much of what they have to offer, even to minds and hearts that differ widely from their own. Although few of us who knew him have his eye, we are nevertheless more effective because of what we learned from him. And all of this was true not only of his professional guidance to judgment and criticism but also of the example he set in his sensible and gentle way of dealing with human beings.
In an effort to give some tangible presence to Theodore Rousseau's ideas about art and artists and to his original and penetrating understanding of the periods that produced them, the Museum has selected from his numerous writings these five essays that seem to be especially imbued with his perception and insight. Like all his work, they are much more than conventional scholarly analyses by an art historian. He loved a wide variety of objects and with singular directness wrote of them enthusiastically and with grace.
ForewordA TributeThe Selections
I. Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer
II. Juan de Pareja by Diego Velázquez
III. El Greco's Vision of Saint John
IV. The Splendid Century, French Art: 1600–1715
V. Gauguin
Print Titles
Chow, Fong, Elizabeth K. Easby, Earl Morse, Theodore Rousseau, Jane Schwarz, and John F. Scott. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 29, no. 3 (November, 1970). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970. See more
Colin, Ralph F., Dudley T. Easby, Jr., Carmen Gómez-Moreno, Thomas P. F. Hoving, Clare Le Corbeiller, Louis J. Lefkowitz, Joseph V. Noble, and Theodore Rousseau. "Art Forgery": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 26, no. 6 (February, 1968). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "A Boy Blowing Bubbles by Chardin." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 8, no. 8 (April, 1950). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "A Flemish Altarpiece from Spain." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 9, no. 10 (June, 1951). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1951. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "A Guide to the Picture Galleries. Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 12, no. 5, Part II (January, 1954). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1954. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "A Landscape by Claude Lorrain." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 5, no. 10 (June, 1947). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1947. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 20, no. 5 (January, 1962). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "El Greco's Vision of Saint John." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 17, no. 10 (June, 1959). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "James J. Rorimer." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 25, no. 1, part 2 (Summer, 1966). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "Juan de Pareja by Diego Velazquez: An Appreciation of the Portrait." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 29, no. 10, part 2 (June, 1971). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 29, no. 3 (November, 1970). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "New Accessions of Paintings." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 14, no. 8 (April, 1956). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1956. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "Rembrandt." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 11, no. 3 (November, 1952). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1952. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "Report on an Early Rembrandt." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 6, no. 2 (October, 1947). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1947. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "The Merode Altarpiece." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 16, no. 4 (December, 1957). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "The Perussis Altarpiece." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 15, no. 10 (June, 1957). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "The Saint Sebastian by Andrea Del Castagno." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 7, no. 5 (January, 1949). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1949. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. "The Stylistic Detection of Forgeries." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 26, no. 6 (February, 1968). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968. See more
Rousseau, Theodore. A guide to the picture galleries. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1954.
Rousseau, Theodore. Theodore Rousseau: Selections from His Writings. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979. See more