The death has been announced of the art historian Alistair Laing, long-time curator at the National Trust and renowned expert on French 18th-century painting, drawing and sculpture.
Appreciation by Neil Jeffares: Alastair Laing 1944–2024 | Neil Jeffares (wordpress.com)
Interview with Laing in 2013, Cordart eZine February 2013
Laing curated the exhibition François Boucher for the Metropolitan Museum 1986-87 and has published extensively on Boucher's work. He was completing a catalogue raisonné of Boucher's drawings at the time of his death.
Here is a YouTube video of a lecture on Boucher's drawings which he gave at the Morgan Library and Museum in 2015:
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