Accompanied the exhibition at the National Gallery, London, 9 October 2021–2 January 2022. Poussin and the Dance, the first publication devoted to Poussin’s dancing pictures, situates the artist in seventeenth-century Rome, a city rich with the ancient sculptures and Renaissance paintings that informed these lively works.

This publication examines in detail two extraordinary, interrelated works: Picasso’s Woman with a Book (1932) and Ingres’s Madame Moitessier (1856). Each painting is explored in depth, illuminating the parallels and differences between the artists’ techniques and creative ambitions.

A richly illustrated publication, marking the return of Gainsborough’s Blue Boy to the UK exactly 100 years since it left for the United States.