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The age of Rembrandt : Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Esmée Quodbach.
LIBRA ND646 .Q53 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quodbach, Esmée.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting, Dutch--17th century.
- Painting, Dutch.
- Painting, Dutch--18th century.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- The Metropolitan Museum' s extraordinary holdings of Dutch paintings include works by Frans Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch, Gerard ter Borch, and others. This lively and accessible account traces the formation of the Metropolitan' s collection from its beginnings in 1871 to the present day. The book discusses the key role of prominent philanthropists Henry G. Marquand, Henry O. and Louisine Havemeyer, Collis Potter and Arabella Huntington, Benjamin Altman, Michael Friedsam, Jules Bache, Robert Lehman, Jack and Belle Linsky, and Frits and Rita Markus.
- Notes:
- "Reprint of The Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin (summer 2007)"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 72).
- ISBN:
- 9781588392268
- 1588392260
- 9780300124064
- 0300124066
- OCLC:
- 162501926
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