Brief history, with 101 full-page color plates with captions. Also includes 240 small half-tone reproductions, grouped according to school, on display at the Gallery.

A selection of over two hundred & fifty paintings from all the major European schools. Each work reproduced in colour and with a commentary by Sir Michael Levey, former director of the National Gallery.

"The companion guide introduces art lovers to one of the richest and most representative collections of Western European paintings in the world, including famous works by the greatest painters - Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez, Ingres, Degas and many others - and masterpieces by less familiar artists." "Through her commentaries on over 200 of the National Gallery's finest works of art, Erika Langmuir enables the visitor and reader to trace the history of European painting from the thirteenth to the twentieth century to develop an eye for style, technique, imagery and genre, and to appreciate the talents of individual artists producing paintings for different locations and patrons, in a variety of artistic and cultural contexts."--BOOK JACKET.

Om portrætter af den franske maler Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)