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Dutch Paintings In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

The Age Of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art by EsmeÈ Quodbach, is published by Yale University Press, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is pleased to announce the publication of The Age Of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Metropolitan Museum’s extraordinary holdings of Dutch paintings include works by Frans Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch, Gerard ter Borch, and others. This lively and accessible account traces the formation of the Metropolitan’s collection from its beginnings in 1871 to the present day.

The book discusses the key role of prominent philanthropists Henry G. Marquand, Henry O. and Louisine Havemeyer, Collis Potter and Arabella Huntington, Benjamin Altman, Michael Friedsam, Jules Bache, Robert Lehman, Jack and Belle Linsky, and Frits and Rita Markus.

The publication accompanies an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 6, 2008.

EsmÈe Quodbach is research assistnat in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Assistant to the Director of the Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Collection in New York.

For more information contact Yale University Press online at www.yalebooks.com.