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p. 151-155 The Landscapists, the Painters of Architecture, the Marine Painters
... rks: Forest View. 10 feet wide and 6 feet high. Free and masterful painting, transitioning into the decorative style. Signed: A. H. V. Boom fecit. A. 1653 (2) [245].138Another group that emerged from Van Goijen differed greatly in feeling and practice from Ruijsdael's school. Herman Saftleven, who had studied with Van Goijen but had not retained the breadth of his master, in turn trained Jan Griffier. Both left behind a wea...
... n trees and underwood, and glowing with the warmth of a fine summer's morning. Beneath some lofty trees on the left is a party of travelers who have halted to refresh their weary cattle; among them are a woman on an ass, and a man giving it provender: near these is another traveler standing at the side of a white horse, and still more retired is a herdsman driving two oxen along a hilly road. A river flows on the opposite side through a fertile valley, and the view is further distinguished by a bridge, and a round tower seen in the middle distance.------(1) Sold for 1,800 guilders at the Van der Pot auction (new cat.)....
... round. The ferry with three passengers and three cows has just touched the bank, where a lady on a gray horse, a gentleman in red and a boy with a mule appear to be waiting to cross. A ruin can be seen through a group of trees, and from there the view ...
... ther had settled in England and who from 1675 received an annual pension from Charles II, sometimes returned to Holland, or at least in the year 1686. – One can assume that Willem, who knew naval architecture so well, was pleased with this ship of a size he had never ventured before. Personally, I like his smaller paintings better.Two very famous compositions in Holland: Scene from the Four-Day War in 1666. An old catalog of the Amsterdam museum describes them as follows: ...------(1) The new cat. gives the dimensions as 3.11 by 1.76, - Wil...
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... red on the Shore of an Italian Lake, c. 1650-1670, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. SK-A-321; Smith 1829-1842, vol. 6 (1...
... time, there were in fact two ‘old town halls’. One being Jacob van Campen's building that is still erect today, and which had become the Royal Palace in 1808, under Louis Napoleon. The other being its medieval predecessor, which had gone up in flames in 1652, and which was also called the old town hall. See also Thoré-Bürger's comment opp. p. 1 (2/3): he sees Rembrandt's influence on this painting by Beerstraten. ...
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p. 86-90 Gerard Dov
... he top of the frame; on the left, among the foliage, we see a patch of sky and a horizon of mountains. In the foreground, on the same side, a red spaniel watches the figures. There is also a piece of carved stone, with a small bust. This landscape has undoubtedly been blackened and g...
... . The hermit has a rosary in his hand; in front of him is a crucifix.------(1) This portrait, known as the Mother of G. Dov, was in the collection of W. Wells at the time of Smith.511 – Lebrun, in his Galerie des peintres flamands, mentions another large painting of Dov, made after Rembrandt's studio was abandoned and transferred from the Braamcamp collection to England (Smith, no. 140). It depicts Tobias in the presence of his father and was 3 and a half feet high and nearly 4 and a half feet wide!512(2) Smith, whose first volume containing a catalog of Gerard Dov's work was published in 1829, mentions a fifth Gerard Dov: Man seated at a table pla...
... ],526 a candlelight effect, à la Gerard Dov; a small 6-inch panel, absolutely insignificant and even questionable (1); and a Woman writing a letter (no. 181) [131].527 She is seated, in a yellow satin gown, at a table covered with a scarlet velvet carpet and on which is a musical instrument. A servant beside her awaits her orders. On a chair covered with green velvet, a little dog is sleeping. This ...------(1) According to the new cat., however, it comes from famous cabinets: Van Zwieten, 1731, De Fraula, 1738, Lormier, 1763, and Van Heteren....
... ; it is Van Gaesbeeck, whose name, forgotten today, was very famous. The signature: "A. VAN GAESBEECK. fecit" is written in full at the bottom of the panel (1).------(1) I showed this signature to Mr. Engelberts. The new cat. thus attributed this painting to Van Gaesbeeck and included the signature; but he does not seem to know this Van Gaesbeeck, nor the period in which he painted, for the figure is always referred to as Hugo de Groot (Grotius) "at the age of 12." Gaesbeeck was born well after Grotius, for he trained with ......
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... ame subject and of approximately the same size, entered the Rijksmuseum collection in 1912: Old Woman Re...
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p. 76-80 Paul Potter, Gerard Dov
... red bull, an ox, a reclining cow; then a horse, a donkey, a ram, a goat, two sheep, a lamb. Near a tree, on the right, a stan...
... lland's minor painters, while his master Rembrandt is considered Holland's greatest artist.However, Rembrandt towers high above all his compatriots; he has taken his place in the supreme pleiade, standing above the various nationalities and revered by all mankind. Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Correggio, Titian, Velazquez,489 – Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Rubens, Rembrandt,– just like Dante, Cervantes, Molière, Shakespeare, Goethe, – belong to all nations (1).------(1) Théophile Gautier tal...
... a, Velazquez, Murillo, Zurbaran; ... among the Flemings: Jan van Eyck and Memling, Rubens and Van Dijk.490 These great men are no match for the others around them, who followed the same inspiration and translated it, with varying degrees of talent, into the same style.But it is not like that with the Dutch. Each has his own original character and personal style. Gerard Dov cannot be compared to Van Ostade, ...------... mentioned above, the two other artists whom Gautier would want to deify to get to his dozen? Paolo Veronese? Murillo? – Perhaps Poussin, as a gallant gesture to the French school?491...
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... red, from Jeanne of Aragon to Doña Isabel de Requesens (1500-1577), vice-reine of Naples. ...
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p.71-75 Paul Potter
... sterdam.In reality, restorations have greatly disfigured the painting and virtually nothing remains of the...
... en catalogued by Smith. It is only 10 inches wide and 6 inches high. The shepherd, herding cows and sheep, sits near a cottage. It is just a kind of excellent sketch, colored like a Cuijp in beautiful shades of red. By the way, the attribution to Paul Potter is questionable, although the painting is signed Potter f 1645. This absence of the first name Paul is not common for the master.486The Orpheus is a rather capital...
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... y 1882, Lugt 42036, no. 58, as dated 1650. In the RKD’s copy no. 202406790, Abraham Bredius has crossed out Potter's name and reattributed the painting to Emanuel Mu...
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p. 56-60 Miereveld, Van Ravestein, Frans Hals, Van der Venne, Gerard Honthorst, etc.
... room, which is still attributed to Miereveld.349 How can we believe that a fifteen-year-old child painted the hero of Holland (1)!350These are the two sons of William 1st: Prince Maurice, full-length [71],351 and Prince Frederick Henry [72];352 then Prince Philip William [73].353 This is the famous Jan van ...------... of the xvith century, there is nothing. Only two names appear in the catalog: Lucas van Leijden, to whom is erroneously at...
... 2 and then Smeltzing, who fought under Prince Maurice.363The finest of these eight portraits is that of Cats, bust, dressed entirely in black, with a turned-down collar and brown fur. Signed and dated 1634. – That of Prince Maurice ...
... Hall.391In the painting of 1639, there is his portrait – and possibly in that of 1627.392FH. and the monogr. of his son Frans Hals Fransz: F+F.393Immerzeel also attributes La pèche miraculeuse to van Balen.394v.d. Venne’s monogr. is AV395Saenredam, born in 1597 at Assendelft (North Holland) came to live in Haarlem where in 1612 pupil of Grebber - and in 1623 received into the guild, died in Haarlem in 1666. (Immerz.)396Pieter Fransz de Grebber, born in Haarlem in 1590. 397 2 pictu...
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... Huis ten Bosch (SC-0522), was not acquired until 1898 (e-mail from Lisa Veenst...
... eveld (Michiel; 1567-21641), Idem [Portret] van Prins Fredrik Hendrik (Portrait of Prince Frederick Henry) (tax.: fl. 600); Amsterdam 1858, p. 89, no. 194. ...
... ijksmuseum, inv. no. SK-A-593; transferred to Amersfoort, Rijksdienst voor het...
... Amsterdam 1858, p. 51, no. 105. This painting was initially sent to the Mauritshuis in 1816, but the director offered it for exchange for a De Heusch pendant that had been mistakenly sent to the Rijksmuseum. The argument was als...
... ce Accompanied by his Two Brothers, Frederick V, Elector of the Palatinate...
... redam and De Grebber also above, p. 54. ...
... ed quite differently and Naaman Urges Elisha to Accept Some Gifts comes from the Leper, Plague and Mental Hospital, and not from the Regtbank. However, it is not clear what happened with it before 1862, when it was transferred to the Frans Hals Museum. ...
... rederik Barbarossa and the Patriarch of Jerusalem conferring the Sword on the Coat of Arms of Haarlem, 1630, Haarlem, cit...
... acrificial Bull, 1650; The Apotheosis of Frederik Hendrik, 1650; Putti with the Name...
... rederik Hendrik at the Valkenburg Horse Fair, 1618, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. SK-A-676. sale collection Jean-Jacques-J...
... . no. SK-A-201; see p. 52-53. The TDK monogram is considered false (website Rijksmuseum, accessed 23 November 2025...
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p. 51-55 School of Rembrandt, Miereveld, Van Ravestein, Frans Hals, Van der Venne, Gerard Honthorst, etc.
... (1) [56].317A rather heavy portrait of Czar Peter the Great is attributed to Aart de Gelder [57].318 Who is also credited with a kind of interior study, without figures: Vestibule with a staircase [58].319------... sculptor Arth...
... of red. Signed with the large letters common to the master [63].333 Engraved by Lange (1)[64].The landscape, View of a Forest with a River, attributed to Philip Koninck, is neither as authentic nor worthy of our attention (2) [65].334------... and sculptor, and gives a monogram we had not previously discovered: DK, the k formed within the D, and attached to the vertical style. But isn't this monogram, which does not indicate a first name, exactly Theodor's mark?(1) From the Province of Groningen, purchased for 2,000 guilders in 1829 (new cat.).(2) The new cat. erroneously writes: de Koning. The paint...
... ct, works in the style of Rembrandt, as seen in his paintings at Huis ten Bosch in The Hague.338 The Rijksmuseum has two Views of the Interior of the Grote Kerk in Haarlem by Saenredam. One of these paintings is signed and dated 1636 [66][67].339 One of his masterpieces, View of the Old Amsterdam City Hall, is kept in the current City Hall [68].340Finally,...
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... 2 [under Unknown masters, Portraits], Bernardus Prevostius, Remonstrants Predikant (Preacher) (tax.: fl. 50); Amsterdam 1858, p. 187, no. 418, as Po...
... rebber. See also the annotations of Thoré-Bürger on Saenredam and the De Grebbers on the pages opp. p. 60 (1/2 a...
... to rewrite this passage, taking out Saenredam, whom Thoré-Bürger considered no longer to be a member of the Rembrandt school. See also the annotations by Thoré-Bürger on the pages opp. p. 60 with information on Saenredam and the De Grebbers. ...
... Saenredam (Pieter; 1597-1666), Een gedeelte van de Groote Kerk te Haarlem van binnen (A part of the Groote Kerk in Haarlem from the inside) (tax.: fl. 400) Amsterdam 1858, p. 125, no. 276, as by Pieter Saenredam. ...
... redam, The Old Town Hall of Amsterdam, 1657, Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum, inv. no. SA 8361 (on loan to the Rijksmuse...
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p. 21-25 Rembrandt
... e drummer, that of the bearded man, above the red musketeer, have something of Van Dijk's,175 in his Flemish period, but with more firmness and depth.Surprising! Rembrandt, sometimes reminiscent of the Italian and Spanish masters, never resembles Rubens. However, these two neighbors are considered by most French writers to be of the same school; they often lump them together under the heading of "great Flemings" or "great Netherlanders".In no school of painting do we find two painters more different from each other than Rembrandt and Rubens: they are the exact opposite...
... tincts, their methods, their results, their geniuses are the same.It never occurred to anyone that Rembrandt and Rubens had no relationship with each other, alt...
... p to the knees. The Dutch call this kind of composition kniestuk; the Germans Kniestück; the English kneepiece.There are five syndics. Three of them sit behind a table that occupies part of the foreground and intersects the three figures at chest height. This table, covered with a large, reddish oriental rug, almost exits the painting. The man sitting on the right, with his body slightly tilted, holds in his left hand a bag lying on the table, probably the bag with the lead marks. In front of the two ...------(1) The new cat. gives as dimensions 1.85 high by 2.74 wide.185...
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... er right: Rembrandt f. 1661, applied later. 1662 is considered to be the correct date (Middelkoop 2019, p. 937, no G. ...
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Nr. 9 De huwelijksnacht van Tobias en Sara
... diepte weergegeven, wat waarschijnlijk de reden is voor de minder uitgewerkte ondertekening in dit schilderijtje. Toch zijn details als Sara’s haardracht, gezichtskenmerken en tepel in de ondertekening voorbereid. Ook herkennen we de voor Lastman karakteristieke tekenwijz...
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