Portrait of a Medici Prince (Bronzino’s Lodovico Capponi), 234
Portrait of a Woman and Child (van Dyck), 105
Portrait of a Woman with a Rose (van Dyck), 81
Portrait of a Young Artist (Rembrandt), 78–79, 145–146, 159–162, 170
Portrait of a Young Man (Andrea del Castagno), 6–7, 202, 263
Portrait of an Elderly Gentleman (El Greco), 115
Portrait of an Elderly Gentleman (Hals), 211
Portrait of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (Rubens), 81
portraits, 34, 39, 103
Poussin, Nicolas, 7
Prado (Museo Nacional del Prado), Madrid, 16, 110, 115, 131–132, 134, 136–138
Primavera (Botticelli), 253
prints, 121, 166
Progress of Love, The (Fragonard), 249–250
Pujo, Arsene, 232
Purification of the Temple (El Greco), 114–115
Raeburn, Henry, 176
railroads, 20, 23
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), 43, 68, 259; Ansidei Madonna by, 29, 93, 97–98, 102; Colonna Madonna by, 96–100, 249, 266; Madonnas by, 4, 106; Pietà by, 85; The Small Cowper Madonna by, 228, 230, 259; Tommaso Inghirami by, 81–82, 92
Reading from Homer (Alma-Tadema), 42
Rembrandt van Rijn, 32, 37, 39, 69, 87, 203; American collectors and, 6, 47, 58, 125–127, 137, 173, 233; Aristotle with the Bust of Homer by, 200, 202; art market and, 4, 72, 167, 169–170; attributions of, 85, 92; catalogue raisonné of, 266; Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee by, 82, 261; exhibitions of, 160–161, 179, 219–220; Ilchester Self-Portrait (1658) by, 180–194; The Mill by, 4, 80–81, 226–227; in museum collections, 259, 263, 266; Nicolaes Ruts by, 95, 105, 264; Noble Slav by, 28; The Polish Rider by, 219–222; Portrait of a Young Artist by, 78–79, 145–146, 159–162; portraits by, 19, 72, 82, 125, 132, 146, 179, 227, 261; Self-Portrait (1629) by, 72; see also individual works by
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 33, 72, 102, 105–107, 169, 175–176, 188, 192, 210–211, 249, 259, 262–263
Rhinelander, Frederick, 141–142
Richmond, Duke of, 34
Richter, Jean Paul, 68
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 16
Robert, Fernand, 46
Robinson, Edward, 43, 139, 232, 249
Robinson, Thomas, 177, 225, 229, 234
Roderick Hudson (James), 22, 52
Rodin, Auguste, 37
Rokeby Venus (Velázquez’s Toilet of Venus), 217
Romney, George, 33, 105, 169, 174, 211
Rosa, Salvator, 13
Rothschild, Ferdinand de, 102
Rouart, Henri, 110
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 36–37, 72, 106, 108, 234
Rubens, Peter Paul, 7, 13–14, 28, 31–32, 35, 81, 98, 174, 213, 219, 222, 241, 266
Ruskin, John, 53
Ruysdael, Solomon, 202
Sacred and Profane Love (Titian), 81
Saint Dominic in Prayer (El Greco), 110
Saint Ferdinand (Goya), 138
Saint George Slaying the Dragon (Crivelli), 81
Saint Ildefonso (El Greco), 110, 143
Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors (Lippi), 262
Saint Martin and the Beggar (El Greco), 143
Salmon (Manet), 134
Santayana, George, 60
Sarah, Lady Innes (Gainsborough), 234
Sargent, John Singer, 19, 30–31, 34, 36–37, 42, 49–50, 54–55, 61, 91, 139, 235, 261, 265
Sartain, Emily, 121
Satterlee, Herbert L., 100, 108
Satterlee, Louisa, 262–263
Schaus, William, 125
Schwab, Charles M., 148, 171, 195
Scott & Fowles, New York, 189, 229
Sears, Willard, 83
Sedelmeyer, Charles, 93, 98, 100, 223
Ségur-Périer, Countess de, 223
Self-Portrait (Rembrandt; 1629), 72
Self-Portrait (Rembrandt; 1658), 180–194, 213
Seligmann, Jacques, 202, 223
Selina, Lady Skipwith (Reynolds), 188
Shaw, George Bernard, 216–217
Shaw, Quincy Adams, 79
Sir John Suckling (van Dyck), 246
Sir Thomas More (Holbein), 235
Sir William Butts (Holbein), 83–84
Sisley, Alfred, 112, 133
Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector (Havemeyer, L.), 124
Small Cowper Madonna, The (Raphael), 228, 230, 259
Smith, H. Herbert, 29, 35
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 60, 64
Sotheby’s, 27
Spain, 16–17, 19, 38–39, 109–110, 135, 143
Spencer, Georgiana: see Devonshire, Duchess of
St. Botolph Club, Boston, 49
St. Francis in the Desert (Bellini), 233–235, 244, 247, 250
St. Jerome (El Greco), 115, 143, 175, 193, 244
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 146
Stewart, Adelia Smith, 50
Stewart, David, 50
Stillman, James, duke of Richmond and Lennox, 117–118
Stuart, Gilbert, 126
Stuart, James, 33
Sulley, Arthur J., 223, 227, 255, 257–258
Sunflowers (van Gogh), 4
Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland (Whistler), 246–247
Tarnowski, Count Zadislas, 219–221
Taunton, Lord, 235
Taylor, Lady Elizabeth, 210
Tempest, The (Giorgione), 80
ter Borch, Gerard, 82, 86, 200, 249
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 69
Thole, Henry, 193
Thomas Cromwell (Holbein), 235–237, 247–248
Thoré, Théophile, 27, 38–39, 45–46, 218
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 266
Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 113, 263
Times (London), 40, 161, 179, 217
Tintoretto, Jacopo, 47, 58, 71–72, 114, 208
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), 114, 208; attributions of, 62, 66, 86; Europa by, 72–77, 79–81, 90, 92; The Feast of the Gods by, 253, 257, 259; Holy Family by, 98; Pietro Aretino by, 175–177, 182, 193; Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap by, 233, 237, 247–248, 250; Sacred and Profane Love by, 81; style and reputation of, 74, 93
Titus (Rembrandt), 202
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 20
Toilet of Venus (Velázquez), 217
Toledo, Spain, 114, 116, 137, 143–144
Tommaso Inghirami (Raphael), 81–82, 92
Torre, Anthony, 69
Tracy, Frances Louisa: see Morgan, Frances Louisa Tracy
Trotti & Cie, Paris, 175, 193, 205
Turner, J. M. W., 192, 235, 244–245
Valentiner, Wilhelm, 161, 194, 206, 214, 224
Valvrojenski, Albert, 60
Valvrojenski, Judith M., 60
van der Weyden, Rogier, 3, 202
van Dyck, Anthony, 27, 67, 72, 180, 196; Anne, Countess of Clanbrassil by, 246; The Betrayal of Christ, by, 12–15, 31, 34; Cattaneo portraits by, 204–206, 215; collectors and, 29–37, 214, 233, 246,
259; James Stuart portrait by, 12–13, 31–37, 39, 42, 266; Ottaviano Canevari by, 175–176; Paola Adorno by, 246; Portrait of a Woman and Child by, 105; Portrait of a Woman with a Rose by, 81; Sir John Suckling by, 246; smuggling his works, 5
van Eyck, Jan, 3, 7, 40–41
van Gogh, Vincent, 4, 166, 243
van Goyen, Jan, 39
van Leyden, Lucas, 35
van Ruisdael, Jacob, 39, 40, 42
Vanderbilt, George, 173
Vanderbilt, William H., 172–173
Vanderbilt, William K., 25
Vanity Fair (Thackeray), 69
Vasari, Giorgio, 253
Vaux, Calvert, 16
Velázquez, Diego, 19, 43, 47, 67, 70–71, 80, 105, 110, 130, 217, 219, 227–230, 244
Venetian Painters of the Renaissance (Berenson), 45, 61–63, 65, 74
Venetian School of Painting, 62–63
Venice, Italy, 55–56
Vermeer, Jo
hannes, 57, 178, 194, 219; The Art of Painting by, 81, 118; The Concert by, 46, 261; Girl Interrupted at Her Music by, 173–174, 225; Girl with a Flute by, 226; The Glass of Wine by, 82; A Lady Writing by, 44; Maid Asleep by, 200, 202; in museum collections, 259, 263, 266; Officer and Laughing Girl by, 225; Woman Holding a Balance by, 223–225; A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal by, 46; Young Woman with a Water Pitcher by, 37–39, 42, 44
Veronese, Paolo, 13, 119, 130, 195, 244
View of Toledo (El Greco), 143–144
Villa I Tatti (Settignano, Italy), 65, 67, 208, 264
Village Among Trees (Hobbema), 173
Ville D’Avray (Corot), 164
Vincenzo Anastagi (El Greco), 235
Virgin and Child with an Angel (Botticelli), 81
Virtue and Vice (Veronese), 195
Visit to the Nursery, The (Metsu), 200, 249
Volpi, Elia, 70
von Bode, Wilhelm, 82, 178–179, 184; American collectors and, 64, 214, 222; as art expert, 40, 63, 69, 126–127, 204; Europa and, 74; Rembrandt catalogue by, 40, 72, 161, 185, 189, 220; Rembrandt retrospective and, 160–161; in U.S., 40–41, 91–92, 225
Wales, Prince of, 106
Wallace Museum, London, 205
Warren, Edward, 61
Warren, Samuel, 75
Warren, Susan Cornelia, 75–77
Washington, George, 126
Watteau, Jean-Antoine, 7, 118
Weir, J. Alden, 18–19
Wellington, Duke of, 131
Wertheimer, Asher, 82, 255, 258
Westminster, Duke of, 75–76
Wethey, Harold E., 115
Wharton, Edith, 173
Whistler, James McNeill, 19, 49, 53–54, 61, 79, 246–247
White Horse, The (Constable), 264
Whittredge, Worthington, 16
Wicht, Joseph, 130–132, 135–136
Wicht, “Pepita,’’ 136–137
Widener, Eleanor Elkins, 231–232
Widener, George, 231
Widener, Harry Elkins, 231–232
Widener, Joseph, 206, 227, 257–259
Widener Library, Harvard University, 232
Widener, Peter A. B., 4, 206–207, 213–215, 224–225, 227–232, 243
Wildenstein, Nathan, 200, 202, 223
Wings of the Dove, The (James), 56
Wisdom and Strength (Veronese), 195
Wolf and Fox Hunt (Rubens), 13–14, 266
Woman Holding a Balance (Vermeer), 223–225
Woman with the Umbrella (van Dyck), 206
Woman’s Portrait, A (Goya’s A Portrait of a Lady [Maria Martinez de Puga]), 245
women artists and collectors, 120–121, 125
Woolf, Virginia, 182
World War I, 2–4, 241–242, 250–251
World War II, 264
Young Man and Woman in an Inn (Hals), 203
Young Woman at Her Toilet with a Maid (ter Borch), 200, 249
Young Woman Standing at a Virginal, A (Vermeer), 46
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher (Vermeer), 37–39, 42, 44, 266
Youssoupoff art collection, 161, 179, 185, 192
Zorn, Anders, 55
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Page 24: John White Alexander, American (1856–1915), Henry G. Marquand, 1896. Oil on canvas, 198 ×107cm (7715⁄16 in.×421⁄8in.). Princeton University Art Museum. Presented by the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Marquand in 1950. PP344 © Photo: Trustees of Princeton University. May not be reproduced without permission in writing from Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ 08544.
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Page 44: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue façade, photographed 1917. Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Page 48: Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888. Taken by J. Thompson, Grosvenor Street, London. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA.
Page 56: Isabella Gardner and a gondolier on the Grand Canal, 1894. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA.
Page 59: “Bernard Berenson As I First Saw Him.” Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA.
Page 65: Bernard Berenson, 1903. The Berenson Archive, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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Page 165: Adelaide Frick and Roland Knoedler Playing Cards, Palm Beach, 1904. Courtesy of The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.
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