The Dutch Collection is not Complete book by Peter Hecht

Peter Hecht

Published by The Hague, Vereniging Rembrandt

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Private individuals have always helped communities to build their public art collections. In the Netherlands one might even say that this began straight after the Iconoclasm, when Lucas van Leyden's Last Judgement was taken from the church that was its original home and was reinstalled in Leiden Town Hall in 1577-with the explicit permission of the descendants of the family who had commissioned it. The first Dutch museum owes its existence to the generosity of Pieter Teyler in Haarlem, who died in 1778. Rotterdam's municipal museum was set up to accommodate the collection that Frans Boijmans left to the city in 1849. Five years later, Amsterdam was given its first great collection of seventeenth-century Dutch art by Adriaan van der Hoop. The first museum of contemporary art was presented to the Dutch State by the painter Hendrik Mesdag in 1903. A private individual bought Vermeer's Little Street for the Rijksmuseum in 1921 and Abraham Bredius left his Rembrandts to the Mauritshuis in 1946. And who could ever forget Hel?ne Kr?ller-M.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dutch Collection is not Complete book by Peter Hecht
• Publisher: The Hague, Vereniging Rembrandt
• Language: English
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • All Things Art
  • Art Painting and Paintings