Boucher and Chardin: Masters of Modern Manners
The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1, until 7 September
Alan Green: Joan Miro
Annely Juda Fine Art, 23 Dering Street, W1, until 18 July
I can never visit the Wallace Collection without lamenting the filling of the erstwhile courtyard with an airless restaurant which scarcely does justice to the noble proportions of Hertford House. Meanwhile, temporary exhibitions are crammed into two smallish rooms in the basement, which just goes to show that apparently we value our stomachs over our hearts. Luckily, the Wallace regularly mounts high-quality exhibitions in its subterranean galleries (rather as the National Gallery occasionally does), and the current one is no exception. Boucher and Chardin are chalk and cheese, fluff and granite, but this show brings them together to considerable effect, and to our definite advantage. A series of loans from such eminent collections as the Frick in New York and the Hunterian in Glasgow makes this display an unmissable event.
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