tarotor
10-22-2005, 01:37 PM
I had the opportunity to view the Catherine the Great / Hermitage collection that is currently at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. I hoped the exhibit would include some of the magnificent Jean-Antoine Houdon sculptures that she had collected and it did.
My favorite had to be the Jean-Jacques Rousseau work. There are pieces by Marie-Anne Collot - located right beside the magnificent Romanov coronation coach. If you have the chance this is an excellent exhibit can't say it has a lot of sculpture but it does have a nice selection and the artistic detail on the coach is just exquisite. That is the show stopper of the exhibit. They wisely put benches around the coach because that is where people stop and just take in the marvelous detail.
I'll include a link that has an image of the coach and more about the exhibit.
hermitage (http://www.iatwm.com/200509/CatherinetheGreat/index.html)
My favorite had to be the Jean-Jacques Rousseau work. There are pieces by Marie-Anne Collot - located right beside the magnificent Romanov coronation coach. If you have the chance this is an excellent exhibit can't say it has a lot of sculpture but it does have a nice selection and the artistic detail on the coach is just exquisite. That is the show stopper of the exhibit. They wisely put benches around the coach because that is where people stop and just take in the marvelous detail.
I'll include a link that has an image of the coach and more about the exhibit.
hermitage (http://www.iatwm.com/200509/CatherinetheGreat/index.html)