Volume 45, Number 4 · March 5, 1998
The Art of the Possible
By Francis Haskell
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon 12, 1998, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 10, 1998-June 7, 1998.
by 1997-January an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, September 23, Catalog of the exhibition by Sylvain Lavessière
Metropolitan Museum/Abrams, 344 pp., $45.00 (paper)
Augustin Pajou, Royal Sculptor and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 26-May 24, 1998.
by an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, October 20, 1997-January 19, 1998, Catalog of the exhibition by James David Draper, by Guilhelm Scherf
Metropolitan Museum/Abrams, 420 pp., $45.00 (paper)
The exhibitions of paintings by Pierre Prud'hon and of sculptures by Augustin Pajou, which opened at more or less the same time in Paris and are now moving to New York, cannot have been planned as a pair, but in an extraordinary way each one is enhanced by the other, and the almost invariable success of Pajou and frequent failure of Prud'hon inevitably make one reflect on what was, or was not, possible in art at different times.
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