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In this volume, forty-two remarkable paintings collected by Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, are discussed at length in light of recent technical and art historical research. This is the eighth in a projected series of sixteen volumes that will catalogue the entire Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum.Among the works catalogued here are Petrus Christus's "Goldsmith in His Shop" of 1449, which is justly famous as one of the first northern European paintings to depict everyday life, and Hans Memling's "Portrait of a Young Man" (ca. 1475-80), in which the sitter is posed before a landscape, a formula that had lasting repercussions in Italian as well as Northern art. Also included is Memling's "Annunciation," one of his finest and most original works. Well-known paintings by Simon Marmion, Jean Hey, Gerard David, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Younger, Hans Holbein, Gerard Terborch, Pieter de Hooch, Rembrandt, and El Greco all represent in their own way the best of the era and place in which they were created, as do masterful portraits by Francisco de Goya, George Romney, and Sir Henry Raeburn. All the paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection are reproduced in full color, supplemented by numerous comparative duotone illustrations.
List of contents
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS By EGBERT HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN vii NOTE TO THE READER x CATALOGUE France, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries CHARLES STERLING AND MARYAN W. AINSWORTH 1 Central Europe, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries CHARLES TALBOT 29 The Southern Netherlands, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries MARTHA WOLFF 61 The Netherlands, Seventeenth Century EGBERT HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN 125 Spain, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century JONATHAN BROWN 169 Great Britain, Eighteenth Century JOHN HAYES 185 CONCORDANCE 196 BIBLIOGRAPHY 197 INDEX 231
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The late Charles Sterling was Curator, Musée du Louvre, and Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Maryan W. Ainsworth is Senior Research Fellow, Paintings Conservation Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Charles Talbot is Alice Pratt Brown Distinguished Professor of Art History, Trinity University, San Antonio. Martha Wolff is Curator of European Painting Before 1750, Art Institute of Chicago. Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann is John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Jonathan Brown is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. John Hayes was formerly Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Summary
Part of a projected series of sixteen volumes that catalogues the entire Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. Supplemented by numerous comparative duotone illustrations, this work features paintings in this Collection which are reproduced in full color.
