Presentation of the catalogue 'The French Silverware in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection'
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Calouste Gulbenkian MuseumThe Calouste Gulbenkian Museum has just published the catalogue devoted to its collection of French silverware, regarded as the most significant private collection in this sphere.
Brought together between 1900 and 1950 by Calouste Gulbenkian, this group, unique for its diversity and quality, includes masterpieces that attest to the Collector’s taste for the art of 18th-century French silverware.
In the 400 pages of this publication, the result of several years of work, texts by renowned art historian Peter Fuhring are accompanied by a comprehensive photographic survey of the silverware pieces from the 18th and 19th centuries that Gulbenkian found so fascinating. Forming one of the most sizeable sections of the Gulbenkian Museum, this group includes works by several illustrious Parisian silversmiths, most notably François-Thomas Germain, Antoine-Sébastien Durant, Robert-Joseph Auguste and Martin-Guillaume Biennais.
The publication has editions in Portuguese, French and English and will be presented by its author Peter Fuhring.
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Peter Fuhring
Peter Fuhring studied biology and art history at Leiden University and concluded his PhD with a dissertation on the life and work of Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier. The main author of the catalogue of Jourdan Barry’s silverware collection, he also organised the exhibition Designing the Décor. French Drawings from the Eighteenth Century, at the Gulbenkian Museum. Between 2005 and 2022, he collaborated with Fondation Custodia in the study and cataloguing of the marks on drawings and prints of the Frits Lugt collections.
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