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Two commercial galleries are mounting interesting non-selling exhibitions this month. L'Oeil gourmand--A Journey through Neapolitan Still Life of the 17th Century is the title of a show at the Galerie Canesso in Paris until October 27. It features some fifty works from public and private collections and is sponsored by the Italian Embassy in Paris and the Capodimonte Musem in Naples. Veronique Damian of the Galerie Canesso curated the show in close collaboration with Nicola Spinosa, superintendent of fine arts for the Neapolitan provincial museums. The English edition of the accompanying catalogue, which contains essays by a number of scholars, may be ordered from the gallery's Web site (www.canesso.com). Proceeds from the sale of the catalogue will go toward the restoration of paintings and frames in the Capodimonte Museum.

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At the auctioneers Simon Chorley in Prink-nash Abbey Park in Gloucestershire, England, a loan exhibition of historical and contemporary examples of the Cotswold arts and crafts tradition is on view from October 13 until October 21. Entitled Cotswold Craftsmen 1894 to the Present Day, it includes more than 140 historical objects, mainly from private collections, among them a cabinet by Ernest Gimson, a hand mirror by Peter Waals, and a ceramic charger by Alfred and Louise Powell. The curator is Jenny Bailey, an independent scholar. There is no catalogue.

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Several other exhibitions are also of interest. A selection of nearly sixty previously unseen drawings by Edward Coley Burne-Jones is on view at the Leighton House Museum in London from October 12 until January 27, 2007. They come from the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, which has a large collection of Burne-Jones's work, and the show is the result of a three-year research project to catalogue its Burne-Jones holdings. The curator is Tessa Sidey, curator of prints and drawings at the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery; the accompanying book contains essays by her as well as John Christian and Elisa Korb and is distributed in North America by the Antique Collectors' Club.

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An exhibition entitled Images of the West: Survey Photographs in French Collections 1860-1880 is on view at the Musee d'Art Americain in Giverny, France, until October 31. It includes photographs commissioned by the United States government after the Civil War to document expeditions to the western territories. The 120 items on view are drawn from French public collections. The show was organized by Bronwyn Griffith, former curator at the Musee d'Art Americain Giverny, and Francois Brunet, professor at the Universite Denis Diderot in Paris. The accompanying catalogue, which contains essays by the curators and Mick Gidley, professor at the University of Leeds, is distributed in North America by the University of Chicago Press.

On view at the Tate Britain until January 13, 2008, is the first monographic survey in forty years of the art of John Everett Millais. It contains about 130 paintings and works on paper, and is structured chronologically, showing Millais's development from being the youngest-ever student at the Royal Academy of Arts to his membership in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and to his late landscapes. There is also a re-creation of his London studio. The show was organized by Alison Smith, curator at the Tate Britain, and Jason Rosenfeld, associate professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. The exhibition will be seen at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from February 15 until May 13, 2008. It will also be shown in Japan at the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, from June 7 until August 17, 2008, and at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, from August 30 until October 26, 2008. An accompanying catalogue written by the curators is forthcoming.

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