Considering the Collection &  A Vista on Italy and France

The scholary catalogue of collection holdings Inventory catalogue of Italian, French and Spanish art in the Paintings Gallery, compiled by the long-serving Paintings Gallerycustodian Martina Fleischer, covers works from Romanesque schools from the fourteenth to theeighteenth centuries. The works include panel paintings by Simone da Bologna, Antonio da Fabriano, and Sandro Botticelli, Titian’s late work Tarquin and Lucretia, Giambattista Tiepolo’s bozzetto Phaeton and Apollo, and the in total eight views of Venice by Francesco Guardi. Highlights among the French works include the two rare pastoral landscapes by Claude Lorrain and Pierre Subleyras’ studio picture painted on both sides, while the Spanish schools include Murillo’s Two Boys Playing Dice and the sketch in oils for Foundation of the Tritinarian Order by Carreño de Miranda. More than a third of the texts are complemented by hitherto unpublished results of research undertaken by the Institute for Natural Sciences and Technologies in Art at the Academy, including x-radiographs and infrared reflectography.

In A Vista on Italy and France, the selected and rarely shown works broaden the view of the richness and diversity of the Paintings Gallery's holdings. Divided into individual sections, the presentation is dedicated to Venetian painting with Titian's Tarquinius and Lucretia and Francesco Guardi's views of Venice as well as French landscape, portrait and history painters from Claude Gellée, known as Lorrain, to Pierre Subleyras and Hubert Robert. Also grouped together are Roman and Venetian works of 17th century chiaroscuro painting and examples of bright, colourful painting between 1700 and 1750 from Rome, Bologna and Lombardy with paintings by Andrea Locatelli, Carlo Maratta/Franz Werner Tamm, Domenico Maria Viani and Gianantonio Petrini.

Under the motto Considering the Collection, the holdings of the Paintings Gallery have been shown in changing thematic orientations since 2023. In addition to the current focus on Italian and French works, numerous highlights from the collection will continue to be on display, including Dieric Bouts' Coronation of the Virgin, Rembrandt's Portrait of a Young Woman, the Family Portrait in a Courtyard in Delft by Pieter de Hooch, Boreas and Oreithya by Peter Paul Rubens and the Self-Portrait by Anthony van Dyck. One of the main works in the collection, the Last Judgement Triptych by Hieronymus Bosch, is on permanent display.

A Vista on Italy and France, curated by Martina Fleischer
Considering the Collection, curated by Claudia Koch