Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Hardcover. Chocolate cloth with gilt lettering; sepia photographic dust jacket with white/gold lettering; decorative end pages, xxi, 285 pp. with color and duotone images throughout. VG+/VG+. Item #140290
ISBN: 9780300190243
Text in English. This exhibition catalogue addresses Hoentschel's biography, business contacts, and contacts, as well as the arrival of his collection in New York, its lavish 4-volume ilustrated catalogue and the medieval collections. Hoentschel, the celebrated Parisian decorater/designer, sold his collection of more than 2,000 decorative arts objects to John Pierpont Morgan who was, at the time, the President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Morgan immediately donated the works to the museum and loaned the medieval collection, later donated to the museum by his son. This collection formed the basis of the Department for Decorative Arts at the Met, the first of its kind in a US institution.
OCLC: 811239068
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