April 2, 2005 through June 30, 2008
At The Fogg Art Museum (more about the Fogg)

Copy of the Portland Vase, first edition, 1790-95. Blue-black and white jasperware, 25.8 x 18.5 cm. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.1181. Photo: Photographic Services, HUAM. © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

This installation of 18th-century ceramics, prints, and paintings—many exhibited here for the first time—presents Wedgwood’s Portland Vase and other holdings once in Grenville L. Winthrop’s collection, Castelli plaques, and portrait medallions by Giovanni Battista Nini. Many cornerstones of the Fogg’s collection of 18th-century paintings—Boucher’s Madame de Pompadour, Canaletto’s Piazza San Marco, Venice, and works by Greuze, Fragonard, and the Venetian masters Tiepolo and Guardi—are also featured.