The exhibition will present a selection of about eighty-five European paintings and sculptures from the renowned collection of Stewart and Lynda Resnick. While particularly famous for its important eighteenth-century French paintings鈥攊ncluding
works by Fran莽ois Boucher, 脡lisabeth-Louise Vig茅e-Lebrun,
Jean-Honor茅 Fragonard,
Nicolas Lancret, and
Hubert Robert鈥攖he Resnick collection also offers a wide variety of other European works, including those of the Dutch seventeenth-century school, represented by paintings of
Peter Paul Rubens and
Jacob Jordaens; eighteenth-century Venetian art, by
works of Francesco Guardi and Giambattista Crosato; and the French nineteenth-century school, by Romantic paintings by Henri Lehman, as well as a rare religious composition by
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The exhibition will also reflect the Resnicks' passion for sculpture, as illustrated with
works by Clodion,
Jean-Antoine Houdon, and Nicolas-S茅bastien Adam, among others. The exhibition is designed by the world famous stage designer, Pier-Luigi Pizzi, curated by J. Patrice Marandel, The
Robert H. Ahmanson Chief Curator of European Art at LACMA, and will be one of the inaugural exhibitions in LACMA's new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion.