Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...special collection of Dutch paintings is now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum. Mr. Henry Goldman, of New York, has loaned eight fine Dutch pictures. The two most important of these are an oil painting by Rembrandt and one by Franz Hals. There is also an excellent Van Ostade of a group of peasants playing cards, illustrating well the remarkable skill of the Dutch masters of that period in genre painting. Five small pictures representing the five senses, by David Teniers, the Younger, all signed by the master, are good examples of his work...
Next to this picture hangs the Saint Bartholomew of Rembrandt, signed and dated 1657. It is a splendidly rich piece of Rembrandt coloring and represents a thoughtful man seated in an armchair, gazing in a pensive and almost melancholy manner into the distance. The history of this superb painting can be traced back without interruption to the time of the famous Empress Catharine of Russia. This Bartholomew picture was known for a time in Russia as the "Troubetzkoy Rembrandt...
Students of the University and the public who visit the Fogg Museum are thus given a rare opportunity of seeing unusually fine examples of Rembrandt and Franz Hals beside the Van Dyck portrait of Nicholas Triest, which belongs to the Fogg Museum...
...work of Frank Brangwyn, one of the most celebrated of modern English artists, and are considered abroad as the finest art posters brought out by the war. "If the war has done nothing else," declares one Paris newspaper, "it has revealed in the English Brangwyn a new Rembrandt...
...print collection an unusually large number of additions have been made. Mr. Paul J. Sachs '00 has given Rembrandt's "Great Jewish Bride," the "Sheperdess Knitting," by Millet, sixty-one etchings by Jacquemart, and fifty-one etchings by Herman A. Webster. "The Furnace Nocturne," by Whistler came from an anonymous giver. Mr. Francis Bullard '86 presented the "Clyde" form Turner's "Liber Studiorum" and Lupton's copy of the "Mill near the Grand Chartreuse." Thirteen etchings by James D. Smillie were received form his son, Mr. James C. Smillie. The Nocturne, a lithotint by Whistler was purchased from the income...