The Wallace Collection is a London museum, located in Manchester Square. The collection, put together between the 18th and 19th centuries by the first four Marquesses of Hertford and by Sir. Wallace.
The latter had the merit of implementing the collection with objects from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as well as Italian works of art. Upon his death and according to his precise instructions, the collection was donated to the state and has been open to visitors since 1900. It has been defined by the English newspaper The Guardian as one of the most fascinating in existence.
The building that houses it, Hertford House, dates back to 1788. Inside the rooms is preserved the most important collection of French art of the seventeenth century together with ébénistes furniture and Sèvres porcelain.
The Wallace Collection also includes masterpieces by Titian (Venus and Cupid), Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Pieter Paul Rubens, Van Dyck, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Diego Velázquez, Canaletto, Théodore Géricault , Eugène Delacroix, Camille Corot, Ernest Meissonier, Cima da Conegliano (Santa Caterina d'Alessandria), Vincenzo Foppa (Child reading Cicero).
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