Frits lugt biography of barack

  • In , renounced collector and art historian Frits Lugt established the Fondation Custodia in Paris to care for and to add to his 6, Old.
  • He never ceased to ensure that he remained faithful to the principles of Frits Lugt, its initiator, while at the same time leading an intense program of.
  • In his early teens he spent a year writing a biography of Rembrandt which he illustrated with his own copies of the works mentioned.

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    A Kneeling Youth; verso: A Seated Man holding a Glass

    Harvard Art Museums

    Drawings

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    Identification and Creation

    Object Number
    People
    Govert Flinck, Dutch (Cleves - Amsterdam, Netherlands)
    Title
    A Kneeling Youth; verso: A Seated Man holding a Glass
    Classification
    Drawings
    Work Type
    drawing
    Date
    c.
    Culture
    Dutch
    Persistent Link

    Physical Descriptions

    Medium
    Black and white chalk, squared in graphite, on faded blue antique laid paper; verso: black and white chalk counterproof with touches of ochre, with squaring transferred from recto
    Dimensions
    x cm (9 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.)
    Inscriptions and Marks
    • inscription: top edge, graphite: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
    • inscription: verso, lower right, black chalk: … [illegible numbers] / f 19… [illegible numbers]
    • inscription: verso, lower left, blue ink: L. (Maida and George Abrams)
    • collector's mark: verso, lower left, black
    • frits lugt biography of barack

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      Darius Spieth (right) with Mr. Ger Luijten, director of Fondation Custodia

      On May 27, , Darius A. Spieth, associate professor of art history at the LSU School of Art, presented his current research at the Fondation Custodia in Paris. His talk, “Netherlandish Art in Revolutionary France: The Evolution of Taste, the Art Market, and Prices” (L’art néerlandais sous la Révolution française: Évolution du goût, du marché dem l’art et des prix) was delivered in French before an audience comprised of art historians, museum curators, and the general public. The first part of the lecture retraced how historical events and the behavior of collectors, both royal and private, shaped the 18th-century French passion for Dutch and Flemish pictures of the “Golden Age”—the age of Rembrandt, Rubens, and Vermeer. The second part presented new approaches for how to quantitatively measure the impact of the price shock of the French Revolution on the value of Netherlandish art in the Parisian market pl

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      Information 29th edition

      The Salon du Dessin wanted to join the many tributes paid to Ger Luijten, director of the Fondation Custodia, who died suddenly on December 19,
      A selection of twelve works chosen from among his acquisitions at the Salon, as well as from other participants in the Semaine du Dessin during his directorship, was presented on this occasion.

      Professor of drawing and art historian Ger Luijten became curator of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam between and , and then joined the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam as curator of the department of graphic arts before becoming its director in

      Among his most important achievements are Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art, (), Antoine van Dyck and the Print and the highly original Mirror of Everyday Life: Genre Prints in the Netherlands

      On June 1, , he succeeded Mària van Berge as director of the Fondation Custodia.

      From the beginning of his career, he was the edit