French art focus at the Huntington

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens may have a very British image, but no sooner did it open a Chinese garden than it put a spotlight on its French art collection.

“French Art at the Huntington,” a lavishly illustrated catalog of sculpture, painting and decorative arts -- written by a team of experts and edited by Shelley M. Bennett, senior research associate at the Huntington, and Carolyn Sargentson, head of research at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London -- will be released this month.

A lecture series on the San Marino institution’s French holdings will be launched Tuesday with a talk by Rosalind Savill, director of the Wallace Collection in London.

-- Suzanne Muchnic