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Old Masters, New World

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by Cynthia Saltzman


  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

  Grateful ac­know­ledg­ment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following works:

  The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1887–1924, with Correspondence by Mary Berenson, ed. Rollin van N. Hadley (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987) with permission of University Press of New En­gland.

  Correspondence in The Berenson Archive, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Re­nais­sance Studies, Florence, Italy.

  The correspondence of Mary Cassatt to Louisine Havemeyer, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, by permission of Robert Maguire, Shoreham, Vermont.

  Correspondence in the P & D Colnaghi Archives by permission of Konrad O. Bernheimer, Chairman, P & D Colnaghi Ltd., London.

  The correspondence of Paul ­Durand-­Ruel, © Archives ­Durand-­Ruel, Paris. La Société ­Durand-­Ruel & Cie. Maintains all the rights to the citations [from their documents] in order to be able to use them as it wishes.

  The Duveen Brothers Rec­ords, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California (960015).

  The Henry Clay Frick Art Collection Files and the Henry Clay Frick Papers, The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library, New York.

  The correspondence of Roger E. Fry and of Henry Gurdon Marquand in the Department of Eu­ro­pe­an Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

  A letter from Isabella Stewart Gardner to Charles Eliot Norton, MS AM 1088 (2494), the Houghton Library, Harvard University, by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

  Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner from: Ralph Curtis, August 12, 1892; Henry Lee Higginson, May 28, 1919. Excerpts from John Lowell Gardner’s diary, December 5, 1892; and an undated note by Isabella Stewart Gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Archives, Boston, by permission of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

  Correspondence of H. O. Havemeyer, Mary Cassatt, and Paul ­Durand-­Ruel in the Frances Weitzenhoffer Files, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

  Correspondence of M. K. Knoedler & Co., by permission of Ann Freedman, President, Knoedler & Company, New York.

  Letters from Henry James to Isabella Stewart Gardner, January 29, [1880], April 3, 1898, and February 2, 1899, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Archives, Boston, with the permission of Bay James, Literary Executor for the James family and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

  Letters from Arthur J. Sulley to Joseph Widener, April 23, 1917, and September 26, 1921, Curatorial Files, 1942.9.1. Department of Curatorial Rec­ords, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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  Page 2: Alice Boughton (1865/6–1943), Henry James, ca. 1906. Photograph, gelatin silver print, 20.2 × 13.2 cm. Gift of Allan M. Price. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Photo credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Art Resource, NY.

  Page 11: Corsham Court. Courtesy James Methuen-Campbell, Corsham Court, Wiltshire, England.

  Page 15: Picture Gallery, Corsham Court. Courtesy James Methuen-Campbell, Corsham Court, Wiltshire, England.

  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.

  Page 30: Frederick, 2nd Baron Methuen. Courtesy James ­Methuen-­Campbell, Corsham Court, Wiltshire, England.

  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.

  Page 66: Bernard Berenson and Mary Berenson, 1901. The Berenson Archive, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

  Page 87: Otto Gutekunst. The Berenson Archive, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

  Page 91: Isabella Stewart Gardner, ca. 1915. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department.

  Page 94: Pach Brothers (ca. 1
867–1993). John Pierpont Morgan (1838–1913). Photograph by Pach Bros Studio, NY. Archives of the Pierpont Morgan Library. The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY, U.S.A. Photo credit: The Pierpont Morgan Library / Art Resource, NY.

  Page 103: Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88), Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806). Chatsworth Photo Library.

  Page 111: H. O. Havemeyer and Louisine W. Elder, ca. 1883. Courtesy of Harry W. Havemeyer.

  Page 122: Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Portrait of the Artist, 1878. Gouache on wove paper laid down to ­buff-­colored ­wood-­pulp paper, 235⁄8×163⁄16in. (60.1×41.2cm). Bequest of Edith H. Proskauer, 1975 (1975.319.1). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, U.S.A. Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY.

  Page 133: Paul ­Durand-­Ruel, ca. 1910. Photo Dornac © Archives ­Durand-­Ruel, Paris.

  Page 147: Henry Clay Frick, ca. 1880. Courtesy of The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.

  Page 153: Adelaide Childs Frick, 1910. Falk Studio. Courtesy of The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.

  Page 165: Adelaide Frick and Roland Knoedler Playing Cards, Palm Beach, 1904. Courtesy of The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.

  Page 169: Charles Carstairs. Courtesy Charles Towers and Diana Towers McNamara.

  Page 181: Cable from Charles Carstairs to Henry Clay Frick, 1906. Courtesy of The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.

  Page 201: Joseph Duveen, ca. 1900. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, Williamstown, Massachusetts, from the Duveen Archives.

  Page 210: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–92), Elizabeth, Lady Taylor, ca. 1780. Oil on canvas, 501⁄8×401⁄4in. (127.32×102.24cm). Henry Clay Frick Bequest. 1910.1.101. Copyright The Frick Collection, New York.

  Page 228: Raphael (1483–1520), The Small Cowper Madonna, ca. 1505. Oil on panel, 59.5×44cm (233⁄8×173⁄8in.). Widener Collection, 1942.9.57. Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

  Page 236: Hans Holbein, the Younger (1497/1498–1543), Thomas Cromwell, 1532–33. Oil on oak panel, cradled, 307⁄8×253⁄8in. (78.42×64.45cm). Henry Clay Frick Bequest. 1915.1.76. Copyright The Frick Collection, New York.

  Page 252: Arthur Morton Grenfell. Courtesy of Frances ­Campbell-­Preston.

  Page 256: Isabella Stewart Gardner, ca.1910. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department.

  Page 262: Courtyard, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1915. Isabella Stewart Gardner ­Museum, Boston, MA.

 

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