What’s On
December 2013 – February 2014
A Family Collection | A National Museum | An International Treasure House
The Wallace Collection is a national museum in an historic London town house. The collection was acquired principally in the nineteenth century by the third and fourth Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace. In the twenty-nine galleries are unsurpassed displays of French eighteenth-century paintings, furniture and porcelain together with superb Old Master paintings. A magnificent collection of princely arms and armour is shown in four galleries and there are further important displays of gold boxes, miniatures, sculpture and Medieval and Renaissance works of art. As part of our programme of room refurbishment the Great Gallery and European Armoury III will be closed until summer 2014. Major works of art are redisplayed in other rooms.
Treasure of the Month Highlights great works of art in the Wallace Collection
December Horace Vernet, Napoleon’s Tomb, France, 1821 This extraordinary picture was painted soon after Napoleon died on the island of St Helena in 1821. Vernet, who was a devoted admirer of the Emperor, places his hero’s grave by a stormy sea, whereas in reality it was by a narrow stream. He also adds the figures of two supporters, Generals Montholon and Bertrand, and, in the upper right, the ghostly figures of Napoleon’s dead officers. The picture is a fantastical scene, painted as a homage. Talks: Stephen Duffy, 2 and 27 December at 1pm
January Jean-Baptiste Pater, Fête Galante at a Fountain, France, 1720s Jean-Baptiste Pater was the only student whom the famously withdrawn Watteau ever taught. He was also the first artist who completely embraced Watteau’s ground-breaking and highly successful invention, the Fête galante. This Fête galante at a Fountain is one of Pater’s earliest works – and one where he is particularly close to the ideas and style of his master. This beautiful painting can help us to understand his way into artistic independence. Talks: Christoph Vogtherr, 3 and 23 January at 1pm
February Antonio Lombardo, An Ideal Portrait, Italy, c.1500–05 This exquisite bronze bust, by the Venetian Renaissance sculptor Antonio Lombardo, was never intended to portray a real woman. It is a wonderful example of the fashion in Venice around 1500 – also seen in the paintings of Giorgione and the young Titian – for idealised depictions of a dreamy pastoral arcadia, populated by nymphs and shepherds. Talks: Jeremy Warren, 6 and 27 February at 1pm
Exhibition & Displays
Admission Free
Exhibition The Male Nude: Eighteenth-century drawings from the Paris Academy
Exhibition talks take place every Thursday and the first Saturday of the month at 1pm
24 October 2013 – 19 January 2014 This exhibition, of nearly forty French drawings of male nude figures, all drawn between the late seventeenth and the late eighteenth centuries, is unprecedented in Britain. Lent by France’s equivalent of the Royal Academy, the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, many of the extraordinary drawings are by artists represented in the Wallace Collection, such as Rigaud, Boucher, Nattier, Carle van Loo, Gros and Jean-Baptiste Isabey.
Jacques Dumont, called Le Romain, Man lying down, seen from the back, 1742 © ENSBA
Displays White Light/White Heat: Contemporary Artists & Glass 27 November 2013 – 23 February 2014 This display is a unique collaboration between the Berengo Glass Studio, Venice, the London College of Fashion and the Wallace Collection. It features the work of major contemporary artists and designers, many using glass as a medium for the first time and shows selected works from a project created for the 55th Venice Biennale entitled Glasstress: White Light/White Heat. Included in the display are works by Tracey Emin, Charlotte Hodes and Polly Apfelbaum among others.
Conservation in Focus: True Colours Revealed Until late 2014 This display examines the recent conservation treatment of a chest-of-drawers (commode) made for Queen Marie-Antoinette by Jean-Henri Riesener and now on display in the Study at the Wallace Collection. Treatment has revealed how this remarkable piece of furniture might have looked when the Queen took delivery of it at Versailles in 1780, for use in her cabinet intérieur, her most private room.
Tracey Emin © Francesco Allegretto
The Herbert Bier Archive 18 January 2014 – 23 March 2014 This display highlights some of the key material from the recently catalogued archive of the Anglo-German art dealer, Herbert Bier (1905– 1981). This fascinating archive provides an insight in to the art market in Britain during and after the Second World War, and in particular the figure of the sole trader dealer. This valuable addition to the museum’s history of collecting resources is available by appointment, for public consultation in the Visitors library.
See calendar for talks on the special displays
Special Talks & Lectures Free, no need to book unless otherwise stated. Talks in the galleries are strictly limited to 25 people with places allocated on a first come first served basis. Please see the calendar for details of further themed talks by Curators, Conservators and Guide Lecturers
Highlights Tours in other languages Français samedi 14 décembre, 11 janvier et 8 février, à 15h00
Polski Niedziela 8 grudnia do 9 lutego w południe
Refugee Tour Guides Join one of our remarkable volunteer Refugee Tour Guides on a unique and very personal tour of the Wallace Collection. Tours take place on the first Friday of the month at 2.30pm and the last Saturday of the month at 1pm.
Lectures James Christie and the pictures from Houghton Hall Thursday 5 December, 1pm Free, no need to book Following the recent popular exhibition Houghton Revisited: The Walpole Masterpieces from Catherine the Great’s Hermitage Lynda McLeod, Librarian at Christie’s, will examine the making of this fine collection by Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745) and why, after his death, a young, relatively new auctioneer to the London scene was asked to value the finest collection that was known to British collectors.
Nicolas Poussin, A Dance to the Music of Time, Italy, c.1634–36, detail
Anthony Powell Lecture: Anthony Powell and Sculpture Friday 6 December, 6.30pm–7.30pm, followed by drinks. Doors open at 6pm Cost: £14 (includes a glass of wine) Booking essential on 020 7563 9527 Art Historian Alastair Laing recently retired as Curator of Pictures & Sculpture at the National Trust, having for almost 27 years looked after the many works of art in the Trust’s care. He was responsible for organising the 1995 centenary exhibition In Trust for the Nation at the National Gallery. His particular interest is François Boucher, exhibitions of whose work he helped mount in America and France. He is currently preparing a catalogue raisonné of Boucher’s drawings. In his lecture he will take stock of Anthony Powell’s interest in sculpture as revealed in the pages of Dance to the Music of Time, in his memoirs and in his writings on the visual arts.
Fashion and Armour 1400 – 1700 Tuesday 11 February, 1pm Not only worn for defence, armour was also a valuable medium with which to express the latest decorative styles and above all, the latest fashion in clothing. Just like clothing, armour was used to express the wealth, status and taste of the individual. This lecture by Keith Dowen aims to consider these themes and bring a different perspective to the study of armour. Full Armour, Germany, c.1515–25
Study Events
Film Season
The History of Collecting This seminar series is organised as part of the Wallace Collection’s commitment to the research and study of the history of collections and collecting. All lectures begin at 5.30pm and take place Toilet Mirror, Attributed in the Lecture Theatre. to André-Charles Boulle, France c.1715, detail Free, no need to book. For more information, please email collections@wallacecollection.org
André Charles Boulle as a Collector of Old Master Drawings Monday 27 January
Arn – The Knight Templar
Cinema Armamentaria: Knights of the Silver Screen Each film in this series will be preceded by a short introduction by curator of arms and armour Tobias Capwell, who will draw connections between what can be seen on screen and what can be found in the armouries of the Wallace Collection. First Saturday of the month 4 January – 1 March, 2pm. Free, no need to book. Not suitable for unaccompanied under 18s. 4 January
Mia Jackson, Queen Mary, University of London
Arn – The Knight Templar
The Stafford Gallery at Cleveland House and the 2nd Marquess as a Collector
(Peter Flinth, 2007), colour Swedish, English, Arabic, Latin with subtitles, 139 min, cert 15. In this lavish historical epic, Arn, the son of a Swedish nobleman, must journey to the Holy Land as a Knight Templar to do penance for a forbidden love. The harsh voyage carries him through the heart of the medieval world and into the core of the brutal and bloody Crusades.
Monday 24 February
Peter Humfrey, Emeritus Professor, School of Art History, University of St Andrews
Open Furniture February 1 – 28 February Open Furniture returns again to the Wallace Collection this February. Come and see the remarkable, colourful interiors of some of the finest pieces of eighteenth-century French furniture in the Wallace Collection, including masterpieces by Jean-Henri Riesener, JeanFrançois Oeben and Jean-François Leleu. This is a rare opportunity to look inside some of our most important pieces and to discover some of their hidden secrets.
1 February
Richard III (Laurence Olivier, 1955), colour, English, 158 min, cert U. A world-class British cast star in this epic, award-winning adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play. Director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier is diabolically captivating as Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who, through a series of murderous machinations, steals the crown before finally facing his enemies on the battlefield.
1 March
Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer
Toilet and writingtable, Workshop of Jean-François Oeben, France, c.1763-64
(Agustín Díaz Yanes, 2006), colour, Spanish with English subtitles, 145 mins, cert 15. Viggo Mortensen stars as Captain Alatriste, the Spanish Musketeer, in this tale of war, betrayal and intrigue in seventeenth-century Imperial Spain under the reign of the weak and easily manipulated King Felipe IV.
Landscape Painting in the Seventeenth Century Wednesdays 15 January – 12 February, 2pm–4.30pm Cost: £140, £126 concessions This five-week course led by Hilary Williams aims to offer the context for prime examples of beautiful landscape painting in the Wallace Collection. As this period was especially important for the development of landscape as a subject for art, we will trace the subject in Netherlandish, Flemish, Dutch, French and Roman painting. In drawing, painting and prints, we will consider works by Coninxloo, Saverij, Van Goyen, Averkamp, Rembrandt, Salomon and Jacob Van Ruisdael, Cuyp, Berchem, Hobbema, Koninck, Rubens, Van Dyck, Claude Lorrain, Poussin and Rosa.
Access Events
Claude, Landscape with Apollo and Mercury, Italy, 1660
Booking: 020 7563 9527 or booking@wallacecollection.org
3.45pm–4.45pm – Life Drawing, Practical Art Activity
Free to attend but booking is essential. For more information or to book email: community@wallacecollection.org Voice: 0207 563 9577 SMS: 07799237105
Have a go at drawing from a male life (nude) model with Deaf artist Niall McCormack. This will be delivered in BSL, with a sign language interpreter providing voiceover. All materials will be provided.
Deaf Visions: Drawing from the Male Nude
5.15pm–6.00pm – Exhibition Tour
Saturday 11 January, 3.45pm–6pm This event is for D/deaf and hard of hearing visitors and will be delivered in British Sign Language with a sign language interpreter providing voiceover. Free to attend but booking essential. Come and see the Wallace Collection’s latest exhibition The Male Nude: Eighteenth-century Drawings from the Paris Academy and join us for an afternoon of Life Drawing (optional), and a tour of the exhibition to discover what was expected of artists in France 300 years ago.
John Wilson will talk in BSL (voice-over will be provided). Find out more about the artistic training of 18th Century French artists such as Rigaud, Boucher and Nattier, as he leads a tour of the exhibition The Male Nude: Eighteenthcentury Drawings from the Paris Academy.
Sensation! A Conversation between Art and Literature 12 noon (Bring a packed lunch; coffee and tea provided) Event runs 1pm–3.30pm. This event is for blind and partially sighted visitors. Join us for an afternoon of art and literature with audio describer and author Bridget Crowley and an actor as they use readings from poetry and prose to bring some of the famous works in the Wallace Collection to life. Gauntlet, Attributed to Jacob Halder, Greenwich, England, c.1608
François Boucher, Study of a Man Lying Down, 1739 © ENSBA
Adult Art Classes Booking essential on 020 7563 9527 or booking@wallacecollection.org. Workshops are £34 unless otherwise stated and include all materials. Limited number of free places available for registered unemployed. Sessions aimed at mixed artistic ability.
Expressive Life Drawing: Getting to Grips with Heads, Hands and Feet! Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 January, 10.30am–4.30pm Cost £68 In this two day course you will expand your life drawing skills by tackling the three most expressive and complex parts of the body, with artist and surveyor Norton Asbury. Drawing from paintings to analyse the techniques of different artists and from armour highlighting structures of the head, hands and feet that they were designed to protect, these preparatory exercises will later be developed by drawing directly from a model.
Printing without a Press Fascinators workshop
Festive Fascinators Saturday 7 December, 10.30am–4.30pm Cost: £40 This festive party season create a stunning fascinator inspired by the Wallace Collection. Explore the colour palette and details found throughout the Collection and develop a piece using a range of materials such as silk, ribbons, lace and feathers. You will be provided with a basic shape which you will cover and trim to your own design, all with step by step instructions and design guidance by milliner Caroline Morris. This workshop is aimed at mixed artistic ability including beginners, but basic sewing skills would be useful.
Glass Mosaics Saturday 14 December, 10.30am–4.30pm Celebrate our current display White Light/ White Heat and join Jerwood Prize winning artist Helen Maurer to create a mosaic decoration using small pieces of fused glass and glass paints. The glass shapes are pre-fired in a kiln to make soft shapes that have a jewellike quality. Come and create your own design inspired by the Wallace Collection.
Saturday 1 February, 10.30am–4.30pm Get inspired by patterns from the rococo style and learn how to do mono-printing with artist Alex Hirtzel. Discover an abundance of pattern Printing workshop across the Wallace Collection, experiment with techniques and gather the skills and confidence to be creative at home. Finish the class by making a unique design and take it home as a finished print.
Winter Watercolours Saturday 8 February, 10.30am–4.30pm Join artist Alison Kusner and learn the key techniques of watercolour painting. Experiment with soft translucent glazes and learn to create different Isack van Ostade, A Winter Scene, Netherlands, textures and tones. mid 1640s, detail Develop your studies into a rich landscape by sketching from paintings in the Wallace Collection, focusing on winter scenes before returning to the studio to learn how to use gouache in parts of the picture to create contrasts, including imitating the effects of snow and ice. Then combine all the techniques and studies into a rich landscape on beautiful watercolour paper. Beginners welcome.
Families Daily Self-guided Activities • A family multimedia tour, with interactive games, is available at the Information Desk for a small fee. Make the Laughing Cavalier grumpy, match the dogs to their owners and find a dragon in the galleries! • FREE armour handling in the Conservation Gallery: Find out what a brigandine is and how heavy a bullet-proof breastplate really was! • A selection of FREE gallery trails is available at the Information Desk.
Free Drop-in Activities The Little Draw Sundays 1 December, 5 January, 2 February, 1.30pm–4.30pm Free drop-in drawing workshop for all ages and abilities Come and meet our Little Draw artist Anna Curtis this winter. Anna works in a number of different mediums including painting, screen printing and etching to explore the flora and fauna that surrounds her. She is interested in repeat design, pattern and decoration and how this stems from nature, using plants to create still life and imagined landscapes. In these monthly workshops Anna will respond to the organic forms used in decoration, looking closely at the soft furnishings, fabrics and gilding in and around the Wallace Collection.
For more information about the ‘Big Draw’ and other workshops visit: www.campaignfordrawing.org
A Cracking Wallace Christmas! Monday 23 December, 11am–1pm Free, drop-in, ages 5+ Come along and make a fun Christmas cracker and belt out some carols with The Wallace Collection’s Education Department. Don’t forget to bring a cracking joke!
Tulipmania! Tuesday 18 February, 11am–12noon and 2pm–3pm Free, no need to book, ages 3+ Spring is almost here but flowers bloom all year round at the Wallace Colletion. Discover the legend of the most expensive flower in the garden; a flower so beautiful that sailors crossed oceans to find it and merchants swapped their fortunes for just a single bulb. A flower Jan van Huysum, Flowers in of magic, miracles and a Vase, Netherlands, 1726 mysteries, the tulip. In this storytelling session with Olivia Armstrong you will discover a magical way to grow a striped tulip, hear how one gardener found a strange way to protect his blooms and meet the lonely dragon who breathed fiery life into the very first tulip.
Pop-up Furniture! Thursday 20 February, 10.30am–12.15pm and 2pm–3.45pm Free, drop-in, ages 6+ To celebrate Open Furniture February come and design your own pop-up furniture from the Wallace Collection! Join artist Agnieszka Arabska on a journey through different styles of furniture and leave the workshop with your own 3D paper project. Secrétaire, Jean-Henri Riesener, France, 1780
Young People Royal Wonders @ the Wallace Friday 24 January, 6.30pm–8.30pm Free, but please rsvp via Facebook.com/ wallacecollection or email booking@ wallacecollection.org. Ages 16 – 24 years
Workshops Crumbs… It’s Christmas! Sunday 15 December, 10.30am–12.30pm or 2pm–4pm Cost: £9, ages 6+ Explore the paintings of Christmas in the collection and create your own edible Christmas Biscuit House, with artist Miranda Lopatkin. This seasonal edible treat will be inspired by the beautiful house that contains the Wallace Collection. Decorate your house and handmade packaging with patterns found within its sumptuous rooms. This workshop is not suitable for children with nut, gluten, wheat, egg or dairy allergies.
An exclusive opportunity to enjoy after-hours access to the Wallace Collection, at an evening event curated by young people, for young people. Art activities, talks, refreshments and much more to be announced. Organised in collaboration with members of the Geffrye Museum’s Youth Advisory Panel.
Shadow, Light and Glass Saturday 15 February, 11am–4pm Cost: £10, ages 13+ Join award winning glass artist Helen Maurer for an experimental workshop combining light and glass. We will make slides and create unusual still-lives and landscapes by projecting them through objects to create scenes on the wall. Our explorations will be photographed and filmed as a record of the day.
Exploring Pattern Friday 21 February, 10.30am–12.30pm or 2pm–4pm Cost: £7, ages 7+ Inspired by textures and patterns found in the Wallace Collection, come and learn embossing techniques on soft metal foil and create your very own Artwork to take away. With artist Jennifer Conroy.
Gorget, Italy, c.1610 (detail)
Grey Gardens, Helen Maurer, photographer Angela Moore
Talks Calendar All events listed below are free and drop-in • Free Highlights Tour of the Collection (except on dates listed below): Mon 1pm, Tues and Thurs 1pm & 2.30pm, Weds 11.30am & 2.30pm, Fri 1pm, Sat and Sun 11.30am & 2.30pm. • Brief Encounters: Wednesday at 1pm. These last about 20 minutes and are short introductions to a work of art or a subject.
• Please note: a maximum of 25 people can attend tours and talks. Places are allocated on a first come first served basis. As part of our programme of room refurbishment the Great Gallery and European Armoury III will be closed until summer 2014. Major works of art are redisplayed in other rooms
December 2013 Treasure of the Month Horace Vernet, Napoleon’s Tomb, France, 1821 Stephen Duffy Senior Curator 3 Tue 1pm Special Lecture The Academic Movement: Academies across Europe from Rome to the RA Christoph Vogtherr Director 4 Wed 1pm Brief Encounter A Miniature Portrait of Hans Holbein Lucy Davis Curator 5 Thu 1pm Special Lecture James Christie and the Pictures from Houghton Hall Lynda McLeod 6 Fri 1pm “Omnia non vincit Amor “: Love Gained and Lost Marie-Claude Elliott 8 Sun 12pm Skarby Wallace Collection z polskim Masterpieces Tour in Polish Danuta Lasik 9 Mon 1pm The Power of the Dealer 18th-Century Decorative Arts in Paris Helen Jacobsen Curator 10 Tue 1pm Arms and Armour at the Battle of Flodden 1513 Tobias Capwell Curator 11 Wed 1pm Brief Encounter ‘Eat Drink and be Merry’ Renaissance Tableware for Festive Occasions Suzanne Higgott Curator 13 Fri 1pm Display Talk: White Light / White Heat James Putnam 14 Sat 3pm Les Chefs-d’œuvre de la Wallace Collection Masterpieces Tour in French Gabrielle Verrall 16 Mon 1pm “The Light of the World” in Paintings by Rubens, Philippe de Champaigne and Murillo Marie-Claude Elliott 18 Wed 1pm Brief Encounter Philippe de Champaigne, The Adoration of the Shepherds, France, 17th-Century Carmen Holdsworth Delgado Curatorial Assistant 20 Fri 1pm Winding the Clocks Conservators 23 Mon 1pm The Glittering Stage – Art and the Theatre in 18th-Century France Andrew Singleton 27 Fri 1pm Treasure of the Month Horace Vernet, Napoleon’s Tomb, France, 1821 Stephen Duffy Senior Curator 2 Mon 1pm
January 2014 3 Fri 1pm 4 Sat 11.30am 7 Tue 1pm 8 Wed 1pm 9 Thu 1pm 10 Fri 1pm
Treasure of the Month Jean-Baptiste Pater, Gallant Conversation by a Fountain,
France, circa 1720 Christoph Vogtherr Director In Search of Apollo Hilary Williams Pictures of Childhood Lucy Davis Curator Brief Encounter They Also Fought: Armour for Horses Tobias Capwell Curator Special Lecture Insiders and Outsiders: Artists, Innovation and the Academies Christoph Vogtherr Fragile Figures Charlotte Hoades
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Les Chefs-d’œuvre de la Wallace Collection Masterpieces Tour in French
Rebecca Drew Louis XIV and André Charles Boulle Sarah Bowles Brief Encounter ‘Quintessential Sèvre’: A Pair of Turquoise – Blue Vases Helen Jacobsen Curator 17 Fri 1pm Furniture Fit for a Queen? Gabrielle Verrall 20 Mon 1pm Display Talk White Light / White Heat James Putnam 21 Tue 1pm Van Dyck and Velazquez: Two Ways to Rise Ever Higher Marie-Claude Elliott 22 Wed 1pm Brief Encounter Sikh Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection Josephine Roberts Retail and Front of House Assistant 23 Thu 1pm Treasure of the Month Jean-Baptiste Pater, Gallant Conversation by a Fountain, France, c.1720 Christoph Vogtherr Director 27 Mon 1pm Delicious Art: Looking at Food in the Paintings of the Wallace Collection Carmen Holdsworth Delgado Curatorial Assistant 28 Tue 1pm Display Lecture The Conservation of Marie-Antoinette’s Riesener Commode Jürgen Huber Senior Furniture Conservator 29 Wed 1pm Brief Encounter The Man in the Iron Suit, Armour from Henry VIII’s Workshop Denise Stone 30 Thu 1pm Military Maiolica Suzanne Higgott Curator 31 Fri 1pm Winding the Clocks Conservators 14 Tue 1pm 15 Wed 1pm
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Glittering Boxes of Gold and the Art of Taking Snuff Jill Bace ‘How it’s Made’ See Inside Furniture and Find Out Jürgen Huber Senior Furniture Conservator Brief Encounter Art Meets Politics: The so-called ‘Tilsit Table’, File Cabinet and Inkstand Jill Bace Treasure of the Month Antonio Lombardo, An Ideal Portrait, Italy, c.1500–05 Jeremy Warren Collections and Academic Director The 18th-century Portrait Sarah Bowles Les Chefs-d’œuvre de la Wallace Collection Masterpieces Tour in French Gabrielle Verrall Skarby Wallace Collection z polskim Masterpieces Tour in Polish Danuta Lasik The Literary World of Ary Scheffer Rosa Somerville Special Lecture Fashion and Armour 1400–1700 Keith Dowen Brief Encounter Cut, Thrust, and Smash: Combat Damage on Armour Tobias Capwell Curator From Sand to Crystallo – the Magic of Venetian Glass Brian Cookson Pourbus’s Allegory of True Love Lucy Davis Curator ‘How it’s Made’ See Inside Furniture and Find Out Jürgen Huber Senior Furniture Conservator Boulle’s Contemporaries: Early 18th-century Cabinet Makers Helen Jacobsen Curator Brief Encounter The Arab Tent, Edwin (Henry) Landseer Stephen Duffy Senior Curator Dutch Identity after the Habsburgs Marie-Claude Elliott Birds in Oriental Arms and Armour Francesca Levey Research Assistant French Renaissance Furniture Suzanne Higgott Curator Brief Encounter Favourite to Elizabeth I: Robert Dudley and his Portrait Charlotte Harman Treasure of the Month Antonio Lombardo, An Ideal Portrait, Italy, c.1500–05 Jeremy Warren Collections and Academic Director Winding the Clocks Conservators
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