Oh So Artsy: Treasures from the House of Alba at SMU's Meadows Museum

Pierre Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919),
Girl amongst Hat amongst Cherries, 1880.
Oil on canvas. Colección Duques de Alba

Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art together with Collecting volition opened upward at the SMU Meadows Museum on September xi together with volition display some of the finest examples from the fifteenth together with sixteenth centuries upward to the destination of the twentieth century, inwards a display of continuity unparalleled past times other large European collections.

For to a greater extent than than v hundred years, the Alba household unit of measurement has formed business office of the most of import aristocratic lineages inwards Europe, non solely because of its military, political, together with social significance, but besides due to the relevance of its cultural patronage together with its fine art collecting.  This exhibition displays a wide alternative of industrial plant past times Van Gogh, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Renoir, Sargent, together with many more.

The evidence features 140 palace objects—including the personal papers of Christopher Columbus together with 19th-century slice of furniture created for Napoleon III—that state the floor of Europe, most of which accept never been seen exterior of Spain. The exhibition features paintings, illuminated manuscripts, books, historic documents, antiquities, prints, sculpture, drawings, together with other objects.

Admission for this evidence volition endure $12. Learn to a greater extent than past times visiting http://www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org/about_Alba.htm.

Fan of Empress Eugenia de Montijo, from 1852-1870. Mother-of-pearl sticks carved amongst flowers together with vegetable motifs; mountain bearing a likeness of the Empress afterwards a portrait past times Franz Xavier Winterhalter, flanked past times the initials of Napoleón III, scenes of their wedding, together with the hunts inwards Compiègne. Colección Duques de Alba

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), Charles V together with the Empress Isabella, c. 1628. Oil on canvas.
Colección Duques de Alba

The Meadows Museum is located at 5900 Bishop Boulevard, merely due north of the Mockingbird Lane entrance to the SMU campus. Free cloak-and-dagger parking is available. Media amongst well or video recording equipment must sign inwards amongst Security at the Museum’s dorsum entrance, on the eastward side of the building.

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