Travel Pick: Art and Archaeology in United States A Royal Menagerie
A Royal Menagerie: Porcelain Animals from Dresden UNITED STATES LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA • J. Paul Getty Museum • Ongoing
The Dresden Porcelain Collection has lent fourteen large Meissen porcelain animals that were executed between 1730 and 1735 for Frederick-Augustus I, Elector of Saxony, known as "Augustus the Strong" (1679-1733). Also on loan are three paintings from Dresden's New Master's Gallery (Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister) by German Romantic artists Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Carl Gustav Caru and Caspar David Friedrich.