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http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/E22_Human-Made_Object
Human-Made Object
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drawing
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watercolor
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architectural subject
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Drawing & Watercolor
Windmill on a Knoll in a Landscape
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1986.29.399
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110028802
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
41.3080060, -72.9306282
11 3/4 × 8 1/2 inches (29.8 × 21.6 cm)
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height
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François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839, French, active in Britain
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François-Thomas-Louis Francia
Francois Louis Thomas Francia
François Louis Thomas Francia
Louis Francia
François L.T. Francia
François Louis Thomas Francia
Louis Francia
François Thomas Louis Francia
Francia François Louis Thomas, 1772–1839
François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
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British
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23
18th century-19th century
Watercolor and gouache
on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
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gouache
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wove paper
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watercolor
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
500
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/647
300054766
exhibition
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
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British Art Center
BAC
YCBA
Yale Center for British Art
1977
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Lender
2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17
2008-06-09
2008-08-17
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
300435424
Great British Watercolors brought together eighty-eight outstanding works in the medium from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Center, including masterpieces by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, William Blake, Paul Sandby, John Robert Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Thomas Gainsborough, and others. The exhibition was organized as part of the 2007 celebrations commemorating both the Center’s thirtieth anniversary and the centenary of the institution’s founder, Paul Mellon, one of the greatest cultural philanthropists of the twentieth century.
In a period of a little over fifteen years, beginning in the early 1960s, Mr. Mellon assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. As part of his extensive collecting of British art, he purchased several distinguished private collections of British watercolors, enriching and expanding them with astute purchases reflecting his own taste. In his memoirs he praised “the beauty and freshness of English drawings and watercolors, their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” — —
Great British Watercolors spanned more than a century of British artistic production, from the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-eighteenth century to its flowering in the early nineteenth century. The exhibition highlighted the diversity of British watercolor painting, showing both landscapes and figurative works by some of the principal artists who worked in the medium. Paul Mellon’s collecting activity helped to revive the study of British watercolor. — —
Venues — —
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond: — —
July 11–September 30, 2007 — —
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia: — —
October 23, 2007–January 13, 2008 — —
Yale Center for British Art: — —
une 10–August 17, 2008 — —
Credits — —
Organized by the Center in association with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Great British Watercolors was curated by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Center; Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and Matthew Hargraves, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture at the Center.
Yale Center for British Art
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)
500
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/647
300054766
exhibition
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
The State Hermitage Museum
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The State Hermitage Museum
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The State Hermitage Museum
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Sankt-Peterburg
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Great British Watercolors brought together eighty-eight outstanding works in the medium from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Center, including masterpieces by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, William Blake, Paul Sandby, John Robert Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Thomas Gainsborough, and others. The exhibition was organized as part of the 2007 celebrations commemorating both the Center’s thirtieth anniversary and the centenary of the institution’s founder, Paul Mellon, one of the greatest cultural philanthropists of the twentieth century.
In a period of a little over fifteen years, beginning in the early 1960s, Mr. Mellon assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. As part of his extensive collecting of British art, he purchased several distinguished private collections of British watercolors, enriching and expanding them with astute purchases reflecting his own taste. In his memoirs he praised “the beauty and freshness of English drawings and watercolors, their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” — —
Great British Watercolors spanned more than a century of British artistic production, from the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-eighteenth century to its flowering in the early nineteenth century. The exhibition highlighted the diversity of British watercolor painting, showing both landscapes and figurative works by some of the principal artists who worked in the medium. Paul Mellon’s collecting activity helped to revive the study of British watercolor. — —
Venues — —
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond: — —
July 11–September 30, 2007 — —
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia: — —
October 23, 2007–January 13, 2008 — —
Yale Center for British Art: — —
une 10–August 17, 2008 — —
Credits — —
Organized by the Center in association with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Great British Watercolors was curated by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Center; Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and Matthew Hargraves, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture at the Center.
Yale Center for British Art
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500
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/647
300054766
exhibition
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Richmond
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Great British Watercolors brought together eighty-eight outstanding works in the medium from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Center, including masterpieces by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, William Blake, Paul Sandby, John Robert Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Thomas Gainsborough, and others. The exhibition was organized as part of the 2007 celebrations commemorating both the Center’s thirtieth anniversary and the centenary of the institution’s founder, Paul Mellon, one of the greatest cultural philanthropists of the twentieth century.
In a period of a little over fifteen years, beginning in the early 1960s, Mr. Mellon assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. As part of his extensive collecting of British art, he purchased several distinguished private collections of British watercolors, enriching and expanding them with astute purchases reflecting his own taste. In his memoirs he praised “the beauty and freshness of English drawings and watercolors, their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” — —
Great British Watercolors spanned more than a century of British artistic production, from the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-eighteenth century to its flowering in the early nineteenth century. The exhibition highlighted the diversity of British watercolor painting, showing both landscapes and figurative works by some of the principal artists who worked in the medium. Paul Mellon’s collecting activity helped to revive the study of British watercolor. — —
Venues — —
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond: — —
July 11–September 30, 2007 — —
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia: — —
October 23, 2007–January 13, 2008 — —
Yale Center for British Art: — —
une 10–August 17, 2008 — —
Credits — —
Organized by the Center in association with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Great British Watercolors was curated by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Center; Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and Matthew Hargraves, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture at the Center.
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publication event
Yale Center for British Art, ^Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection^, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 90-91, no. 38, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
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Author
Matthew Hargraves
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Hargraves Matthew
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Author
Scott Wilcox
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Wilcox Scott
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Author
Yale University Press
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Yale University Press
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Publisher
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acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
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gift
The Calais-born Louis Francia moved to England in 1790 to escape the French Revolution. In London he met the young Thomas Girtin, who was emerging as the most innovative watercolor painter in Britain, and together they founded "The Brothers," a small sketching group dedicated to painting historical and literary themes. Francia's windmill is neither historical nor literary, but it does allude to Rembrandt's painting The Mill, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. At the end of the eighteenth century Rembrandt's Mill was in a British collection and was one of the most celebrated paintings in the country. Invoking the Old Masters was one way in which watercolor was given a new dignity and prestige.
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2040
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Gallery label
2008-06-24
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Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 90-91, no. 38, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
7842306
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300055603
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
https://britishart.yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
300055598
Public Domain
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
2040
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Volume
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Yale Center for British Art
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https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2040
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https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/2040
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art