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Old Masters, New World

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by Cynthia Saltzman


  Frick, Martha, 156

  Fry, Roger, 1–2, 18, 43, 175, 178, 182–183, 185–187, 191, 195, 213, 217, 219–222, 229

  Gainsborough, Thomas, 27, 33, 72, 101–105, 107, 174–175, 211, 234, 246, 259, 263

  Gardner, Eliza, 50

  Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 3, 6–7, 110, 170, 256–257; appearance and personality of, 47–52, 55, 58, 124–125, 150; as art collector, 46, 54, 68, 71–73, 88–89, 181, 185, 189, 195, 202; B. Berenson and, 45, 47, 49, 57–62, 64, 67–68, 71, 76–78, 86, 88–89, 97–98, 205–206, 210, 255–256; Boston homes of, 47–51, 54, 79; Colnaghi and, 81, 86–88; Dutch paintings and, 46, 161, 174; Fenway Court; see Gardner, Isabella Stewart, museum of; finances of, 56, 80–81, 83–84, 88; Gutekunst and, 68, 71–73, 105; Henry James and, 52–53, 55–56, 79–80, 92; museum of, 50, 71, 78–80, 83, 89–92, 95, 261–262; Old Masters and, 56–57, 59, 67–68, 76, 78–82, 85–86, 89–90, 255–257; photographs of, 48, 56, 91, 256; portraits of, 49–50, 53–55, 61, 90, 261, 265; travels of, 49–50, 52, 54–55, 57, 59, 79, 84; Venice home of, 55–56, 90

  Gardner, John Lowell “Jack,” 46, 48–52, 54–57, 79, 81–83, 85

  Gardner, John Lowell, 50

  Gardner, Joseph (the elder), 52

  Gardner, Joseph (the younger), 52

  Gardner, Julia, 50–51

  Gare Saint-Lazare (Manet), 112

  Garland, James A., 95

  Gauguin, Paul, 243

  Gentleman of the House of Leiva (El Greco), 143

  Gentleman with a Tall Hat and Gloves, A (Rembrandt), 161, 179

  George, David Lloyd, 218–219

  George III, 102, 106–107

  George IV, 69

  Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Gainsborough), 101–105, 107

  Germany, 41, 63–64

  Gérôme, Jean-Léon, 120

  Gerrity, Thomas, 176

  Ghirlandaio, Domenico, 202

  Gimpel, René, 166, 200, 223, 243, 249

  Giorgione, 67, 74, 80, 208

  Giotto, 47

  Giovanna Tornabuoni (Ghirlandaio) 202

  Girl Interrupted at Her Music (Vermeer), 173–174, 225

  Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (Vermeer), 38

  Girl with a Flute (Vermeer), 226

  Glaenzer, Eugene, 138, 141–142

  Glass of Wine, The (Vermeer), 82

  Golden Bowl, The (James), 53

  Gospel of Wealth (Carnegie), 155

  Gosse, Edmund, 218

  Goupil & Cie gallery, 166

  Goya, Francisco, 109, 111, 116, 118, 131, 137–138, 173, 242, 244–246, 263

  Grand Tour, 26

  Greco, El (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), 32, 109–111, 114–116, 119, 132, 134–144, 173, 175–176, 193, 235, 244, 263, 266

  Grenfell, Arthur Morton, 233–234, 236–237, 244, 250–252

  Groot, Cornelis Hofstede de, 160, 223

  Grueze, Jean-Baptiste, 159

  Guinness, Edward Cecil, 105

  Gutekunst, Heinrich, 68

  Gutekunst, Lena Obach, 70

  Gutekunst, Otto, 89, 167–168, 242; appearance and personality of, 68–70, 87, 88; as art dealer, 70–88, 145–146, 170–171, 177–181, 183, 185–186, 188, 190–192, 217–218, 223–229, 261; B. Berenson and, 67–71, 75–77, 81, 83–86, 264; Carstairs and, 223, 234, 238, 244, 252; competes with Duveen, 199, 209; expertise of, 68–69, 86; Frick and, 175, 252; I. S. Gardner and, 71–73, 80, 86, 105; Kann collection and, 204–205

  Hadley, Rollin van N., 90

  Hainauer Collection, 207

  Hals, Frans, 19, 39, 42, 44, 173, 194, 203, 211, 214, 233

  Hamilton, Carl, 258

  Hamilton, Duke of, 28

  Hamilton, Emma, 174

  Harbor of Dieppe, The (Turner), 244–245

  Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville 1865 (Whistler), 53

  Harmony in Pink and Grey: Portrait of Lady Meux (Whistler), 246

  Harnisch, Arthur, 118

  Harper’s Monthly, 23, 40

  Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 264

  Haseltine, Charles, 167

  Haseltine, Esther, 167

  Hastings, Thomas, 243

  Havemeyer, Adaline, 124

  Havemeyer, Electra, 124, 143

  Havemeyer, Frederick Christian, 127–128

  Havemeyer, George, 127

  Havemeyer, Harry O., 3, 143; appearance and personality of, 111, 113, 126, 128; art collection of, 173; Cassatt advises, 109, 111–112, 130–132, 136–138, 140; Durand-Ruel and, 132, 134–140; homes of, 113, 124, 127; Impressionist art and, 111–112, 130; Old Masters and, 114–119, 125–127, 130–132, 137, 140; sugar trade and, 127–130; travels abroad, 109–110, 115–116, 118–119, 130

  Havemeyer, Horace, 124, 263

  Havemeyer, Louisine, 142–143, 241, 263; appearance and personality of, 111–113; as art collector, 124–125, 143–144, 173; Cassatt and, 111–112, 115–119, 121–125, 130–132, 136–138; Impressionist art and, 112–113, 121–123, 130; see also Havemeyer, Harry O.

  Havemeyer, Theodore, 127–129

  Havemeyer, Thomas, 127

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 17

  Heart of the Andes (Church), 51

  Henry E. Huntington Library, 7

  Henry VIII, 216, 235, 247

  Henschel, Charles, 234, 259, 264

  Herman Doomer (Rembrandt), 125–126, 266

  Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 259

  Higginson, Henry Lee, 51

  History of Painting in North Italy, A (Cavalcaselle), 62

  Hobbema, Meyndert, 39, 173, 202

  Hogarth, William, 234

  Holbein, Hans, 7, 68, 81, 83–84, 86–88, 216–219, 235–237, 247–248

  Holford, George, 233

  Holmes, Charles J., 71, 257–258

  Holroyd, Charles, 216–218, 226, 242, 244–245

  Holy Family (Titian), 98

  Hon. Frances Duncombe, The (Gainsborough), 211

  Hon. Lucy Byng, The (Hoppner), 169

  Honorable Henry Fane and His Guardians, Inigo Jones and Charles Blair, The (Reynolds), 107

  Hooper, Edward William, 79

  Hoppner, John, 169, 199

  Horne, Herbert P., 181–183

  Hudson River School, 25

  Hunt, Richard Howland, 43

  Hunt, Richard Morris, 16, 19, 25, 42–43, 265–266

  Huntington, Arabella, 6, 199, 202, 213, 230, 263

  Huntington, Archer, 199

  Huntington, Henry, 263

  Hutchinson, Charles L., 142

  Ilchester, 1st Earl of (Stephen Fox), 183

  Ilchester, 6th Earl of, 180, 182–183, 185–186; see also Fox-Strangways, Giles

  Ilchester Rembrandt: see Self-Portrait (1658) (Rembrandt)

  Impressionist art, 25, 109, 111–112, 117–118, 120–121, 132–134, 263

  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 89–92, 261–263; see also Gardner, Isabella Stewart, museum of

  Italian Renaissance, 3–4, 7, 18, 35, 43, 47, 61–63, 74, 86, 93, 98, 114, 261

  Italy, 3, 5, 17, 26, 38–39

  James, Henry, 1, 15, 22, 27–28, 31, 37, 49, 51–53, 55–56, 79–80, 92, 218, 241–242

  James Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Lennox (van Dyck), 12, 31–37, 39, 42–44, 266

  Jameson, Anna, 27

  Jan Six (Rembrandt), 190

  Johnson, Eastman, 25

  Johnson, John G., 129, 171, 206

  Johnson, Samuel, 106

  Johnston, John T., 16, 41

  Julia, Lady Peel (Lawrence), 174

  Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, 82

  Kann collection, 200, 202–204, 207, 215, 249

  Kann, Maurice, 200

  Kann, Rodolphe, 200, 202, 207; see also Kann collection

  Kensett, John, 16

  King Philip IV of Spain (Velázquez), 80, 227–230

  Knight, Daniel Ridgway, 163

  Knoedler, Michael, 166

  Knoedler, Roland, 194, 211; Carstairs and, 167, 205, 209, 226, 235, 264; Frick and
, 163–167, 170–171, 176–177, 193, 222–226, 235, 244; galleries of, 167, 223; Ilchester Rembrandt and, 180–181, 185–192; see also M. Knoedler & Co.

  La Farge, John, 25

  Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children (Reynolds), 105–106, 249, 262–263

  Lady Hamilton (as “Nature”) (Romney), 174

  Lady Harcourt (Reynolds), 188, 192

  Lady Margaret Butts (Holbein), 83–84

  Lady with an Ostrich-Feather Fan, A (Rembrandt), 161, 179

  Lady Writing, A (Vermeer), 44, 263

  Laffan, William, 142

  Lamentation (Christus), 42

  Lamentation (van Eyck), 40–41

  Landscape (van Ruisdael), 40, 42

  Landscape with an Obelisk (Rembrandt), 85, 261

  Lane, Hugh, 235–237, 247–248

  Lansdowne, Lord, 80–81, 226

  Last Gleanings, The (Breton), 164, 191

  Lawrence, Thomas, 107–108, 174–175, 249, 262, 266

  Lefort, Paul, 115

  Leighton, Sir Frederick, 36

  Leonardo da Vinci, 4, 40–41, 93, 230

  Lippi, Filippino, 47, 71, 208

  Lippi, Fra Filippo, 42, 208–209, 262

  Little Note in Yellow and Gold, The (Whistler), 53

  Lives of the Artists (Vasari), 253

  Loeser, Charles, 60

  London, England, 4, 6, 26–27, 69, 101, 103–104, 200, 242, 257

  Lorenzo Lotto (Berenson), 65–66

  Louis Philippe, duc d’Orléans, 74

  Louvre Museum, Paris, 15–18, 38, 43, 117, 120, 138–139

  M. Knoedler & Co., 166, 174, 264; branches of, 168, 179, 223; deals in Old Masters, 170, 186, 218, 229, 244, 249–250, 258–259; financial troubles of, 188, 192, 247; Frick and, 163, 222, 251–252; private collectors and, 233–234; World War I and, 242; see also Knoedler, Roland

  Madame X (Sargent), 31, 37, 49

  Maddalena Cattaneo (van Dyck), 206

  Madonna and Child (Duccio), 4

  Madonna and Child with Saint Martina and Saint Agnes (El Greco), 143

  Madonna (Bellini), 208

  Madonna (Leonardo), 40–41

  Madonnas (Raphael), 4, 6, 93, 106

  Madrazo, Ricardo de, 136, 139–141, 143

  Maid Asleep, A (Vermeer), 200, 202

  Majas on the Balcony (Goya), 116, 137

  Man in Black (Moroni), 59

  Man with a Steel Gorget (Rembrandt), 203

  Manchester, England, 27, 104

  “Manet and the Post-Impressionists” exhibition, 182

  Manet, Edouard, 25, 110–112, 130, 134, 137, 182, 245–246

  Mannerist paintings, 114–115, 175, 203

  Manzi, Michel, 110

  Marchesa Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo (van Dyck), 204–207

  Maris, Jacobus Hendrikus, 245–246

  Malborough, Duke of, 28–29

  Marquand, Allan, 40, 41

  Marquand Bros., 20–21

  Marquand, Elizabeth Allen, 23, 36–37, 41, 49

  Marquand, Frederick, 20–22, 40

  Marquand, Henry Gurdon, 25, 110–111; appearance and personality of, 12, 21–22, 24, 42; as art collector, 12, 16, 19, 25, 30, 32, 34, 36–37, 39–40, 76, 173; background of, 20, 23; business interests of, 12–13, 19–23; Corsham Court and, 11–15, 32; donates art, 17, 39–40, 42; English portraits and, 32–37, 104; Metropolitan Museum of Art and, 3, 12–14, 16–19, 24, 34, 39–43, 76, 126, 266; Old Masters and, 17–20, 25, 46, 161, 182, 215; supports American artists, 13, 23, 25; trips abroad, 22–23, 37

  Marquand, Isaac, 20–21

  Marquand, Josiah, 22

  Marquise de Blaizel (Lawrence), 175

  Masaccio, 35–36, 40, 42

  Matador, A (Manet), 112

  Mauritshuis, The Hague, 219

  Mayer, Gustave, 242, 259

  McKay, William, 69, 170–171, 204

  Mellon, Andrew, 152–153, 170, 258–259, 263

  Mellon, Thomas, 152–153

  Memling, Hans, 202

  Menzies, Frederick, 244–245, 250

  Methuen art collection, 11–15, 26–29, 32, 35

  Methuen, Frederick Henry Paul, 26, 28–32

  Methuen, Sir Paul, 11, 26, 28, 35

  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: building of, 40, 42–43, 44, 265–266; Bulletin by, 194; collections of, 4, 14–18, 39–44; donations to, 107, 263; history of, 12, 14–18, 21, 24, 41–43; Marquand and, 12–14, 42–43, 76, 95; Morgan’s collection and, 232, 248–249, 262; Old Masters and, 7, 42, 141–142, 266; Roger Fry and, 1–2, 181–183, 186–187

  Metsu, Gabriel, 200, 202, 249

  Michelangelo, 43, 74, 106, 114, 194

  Mill, The (Rembrandt), 4, 80–81, 226–227, 230

  Millet, Frank, 30–31, 34

  Millet, Jean-François, 130

  Miss Manners (Hoppner), 199

  Miss Mary Edwards (Hogarth), 234

  Miss Mary Finch Hatton (Romney), 169

  Miss Puyeau (Reynolds), 169

  Mlle. V ’ In the Costume of an Espada (Manet), 112

  Monet, Claude, 112, 123, 132–133

  Montesquiou-Fezensac, Robert de, 246–247

  Moore, William, 151, 159

  Morelli, Giovanni, 63

  Morgan, Frances Louisa Tracy, 99

  Morgan, J. Pierpont, 231–232; appearance and personality of, 94, 99–100, 150; as art collector, 3, 6–7, 93, 96, 98, 100, 110–111, 173, 194, 196, 205, 213, 225–226; artistic tastes of, 95–96; business interests of, 93–94, 98, 100–101, 172, 206; collections of, 93, 99, 215, 232, 264; Colonna Madonna and, 96–100; decorative art and, 95–96, 249–250; English portraits and, 101–108; homes of, 96, 99–100, 105–106, 108; Ilchester Rembrandt and, 185–187; Kann collection and, 202–204; library of, 99–100, 173, 243; Metropolitan Museum of Art and, 41, 95, 142, 183, 194, 219, 248–249; Old Masters and, 93, 95–96, 105, 183

  Morgan, Jack, 232, 248–249, 261–262

  Morgan, Junius Spencer, 94, 100–102, 104, 107

  Morgan Library, 261–262; see also Morgan, J. Pierpont, library of

  Morisot, Berthe, 168

  Moroni, Count, 59

  Mother and Child (Cassatt), 263

  Mrs. James Cruikshank (Raeburn), 176

  Mrs. Peter William Baker (Gainsborough), 246

  Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse (Reynolds), 72

  Murray, Charles Fairfax, 95

  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 7, 70, 75–76, 139

  Music Lesson, The (ter Borch), 82

  Music Lesson, The (Vermeer), 38

  Napoleon, 16–17, 27, 216, 242

  National Academy of Design, New York, 133

  National Art Collection Fund, England: see Art Fund, England

  National Gallery, London: founding and building of, 16, 29; funds raised for, 217–218; Old Masters and, 28–29, 46, 205–206, 244–245; Raphaels and, 93, 97–99; Rembrandt’s The Mill and, 227; World War I and, 242, 257

  National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 7, 259, 263

  National Portrait Gallery, London, 71

  Nattier, Jean-Marc, 98, 159

  Negroli, Filippo, 95

  Netherlands, the, 17, 19, 38–39

  New York Herald, 100

  New York, New York: architecture of, 16–17, 19–20, 25, 44; as art center, 16, 23–24, 172, 232; art exhibitions in, 133–134, 243, 248–249; as capital of finance, 21–22, 101, 172, 232; major art collections in, 173, 203; Metropolitan Museum of Art and, 14, 266; see also Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; nineteenth-century life in, 21, 203

  New York Stock Exchange, 22–23, 259

  New York Times, 15, 100, 125, 127, 196

  New York Tribune, 128, 194

  Nicolaes Ruts (Rembrandt), 95, 105, 264

  Noble Slav, The (Rembrandt’s Man in Oriental Costume), 28

  Nocturne in Blue and Silver (Whistler), 53

  Norfolk, Duke of, 216–217

  Northern Renaissance, 80

  Northumberland, Duke of, 253, 255

  Norton, Charles Eliot, 54, 57, 60<
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  Officer and Laughing Girl (Vermeer), 225

  Old Masters: attributions of, 31–32, 63, 86–87; England stripped of, 216–217; exhibitions of, 104, 218, 248; Gilded Age and, 230; market for, 34–35, 69, 104, 162, 170, 179, 203–204, 214–215, 225–226; market decline of, 232–234, 237; record prices of, 93, 100, 102, 202, 215, 226, 230, 259; scholarly knowledge of, 41; smuggling of, 205; taste for, 93, 125; value of, 4, 6, 29, 31–32, 34–35, 39, 41, 45–46, 69, 181, 190

  Old Woman Cutting Her Nails (Rembrandt), 202

  Ottaviano Canevari (van Dyck), 175–176

  Overholt, Abraham, 152

  P. & D. Colnaghi, London: see Colnaghi (P. & D. Colnaghi), London

  painters, 3–4, 30, 120

  Palazzo Barbaro (Venice), 55–56, 90, 262

  Paola Adorno (van Dyck’s Portrait of a Genoese Noblewoman), 246

  Paredes de Nava, Count of, 134, 137–138, 140

  Paris, France, 3, 6, 17–19, 27, 37, 109, 117, 132

  Paris Salon, 120

  Patinir, Joachim, 130

  Payne, Oliver, 117–118

  Peacock Room (Whistler), 54

  Peel, Lady, 174

  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 120

  Perugino, 208

  Philadelphia Museum of Art, 7

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 119–120

  Philip II, 73–74, 77

  Philip IV, 77, 227

  Philip IV (Velázquez), 244

  Phipps, Henry, 151, 154, 159

  photography, 63

  Pietà (Raphael), 85

  Pietro Aretino (Titian), 175–177, 182, 193

  Pilate Washing His Hands (Rembrandt), 202

  Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto), 208

  Pissarro, Camille, 123, 132–133, 168

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 145–146, 152, 159–160, 164, 167, 185

  Polish Rider, The (Rembrandt), 161, 219–222

  Pollaiuolo, Antonio del, 209–210

  Pond, The (Corot), 164

  Portrait of a Cardinal (El Greco), 116, 131–132, 134–141, 173

  Portrait of a Lady and a Gentleman in Black (Rembrandt), 82, 261

  Portrait of a Lady, The (James), 53

  Portrait of a Man and a Woman at a Casement (Fra Filippo Lippi), 42

  Portrait of a Man (Hals), 42

  Portrait of a Man in a Fur Coat (Dürer), 86

  Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap (Titian), 233, 237, 247–248, 250

  Portrait of a Man (Rembrandt), 19, 161

  Portrait of a Man (Rubens), 35

  Portrait of a Man (Tintoretto), 72

 

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