Description
The greatest repository of Dutch painting in the world is, appropriately enough, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Rembrandt’s enormous canvas, The Night Watch, is one example of the collection of paintings and graphic works that ranges over the master’s entire career. The Rijksmuseum also houses works by Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Pieter de Hooch, Lucas van Leyden, Vermeer and many others Dutch masters. The French and Italian collections include superb works by Tiepolo, Watteau and Fragonard. In addition to the magnificent paintings, the museum owns sculpture, jewellery, silver, ceramics, glass and Gobelin tapestries; oriental art from distant places once belonging to the Dutch empire such as Java and Ceylon; and a justly world- famous collection of prints and drawings.
All these many treasures of the Rijks- museum are represented in this first comprehensive publication in English. The text has been written by A. F. E. van Schendel, Director General of the museum; B. Haak, formerly keeper at the Rijksmuseum, has contributed the detailed notes on the plates. The numerous reproductions in colour and in black-and- white bring the reader a veritable world of great painting and great art-stressing the Dutch masters, whose work ranges from the intimacy of Vermeer’s domestic scenes to Rem- brandt’s penetrating portraits of humanity.
Hardcover. 162 pages.
In good preloved condition, marks and small tears and creases from wear.