by Jon Lackman | 10 April 2008 | Baroque/Neoclassical, Museums
“Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions” is now on view at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bloomberg News has an entertaining short interview with “the Met’s Keith Christiansen, who curated the exhibition with Pierre Rosenberg, the retired director of the Louvre”:
Hoelterhoff: In pulling this show together, did you make any discoveries?
Christiansen: I think the one near-discovery, rediscovery we might call it, is the landscape from Belgrade. It hasn’t been outside of Serbia since 1934. We negotiated to bring it back here to the Metropolitan where it was cleaned and restored and it makes its debut in this exhibition.
Hoelterhoff: Where was it hiding?
Christiansen: Pierre Rosenberg, who organized the show with me, said he once saw it in Tito’s office.
