A Victorian obsession
Subtitle: the Pérez Simón collection at Leighton House Museum
By: text, Véronique Gerard-Powell ; editor, Daniel Robbins ; translation, Laura Bennett
Contributors: Leighton House (London, England); Musée Jacquemart-André; Chiostro di S. Maria della Pace (Rome, Italy); Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Publisher: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, The
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780993105906
Subjects: Catalogs; Exhibitions; Art collections; Private collections; Art; Painting; Collectors and collecting; Victorian Painting
Work titles: Désirs et volupté ̀à l'époque victorienne. English
Description: "A Victorian Obsession. The Pérez Simón collection at Leighton House Museum" presents over fifty two exceptional and rarely exhibited paintings by leading Victorian artists. The pictures all belong to the Mexican collector Juan Antonio Pérez Simón and form the largest private collection of Victorian art outside the UK. Six important pictures by Leighton himself have returned to the house in which they were first painted. Also on display are outstanding pictures by Albert Moore, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse, Edward Poynter, John Strudwick and John William Godward. These artists knew Leighton and were entertained at his house. The collection's highlight is Lawrence Alma-Tadema's magnificent 'The Roses of Heliogabalus', one of the most iconic images of Victorian art which is now exhibited in London for the first time since 1913.--
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Jacquemart-André Museum, Paris, Sept. 13, 2013-Jan. 20, 2014 ; at Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Feb. 15-June 5, 2014 ; and at Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, June 23-Oct. 5, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-214) and index.

Translated from the original French: Désirs et volupté ̀à l'éoque victorienne.