The masters of past time : Dutch and Flemish painting from Van Eyck to Rembrandt / by Eugène Fromentin ; edited by H. Gerson ; [translated by Andrew Boyle]

Fromentin, Eugène (1820-1876)

1948, 1st edition. London : Phaidon Press. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #404985

Physical description; xvi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes; "With one hundred illustrations"--Cover. Illus. Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-383) and index. Translation of, Les Maîtres d'autrefois, Belgique-Hollande. Contents; Editor's introduction -- Author's foreword -- Belgium. The Gallery at Brussels ; Rubens's masters ; Rubens in the Gallery at Brussels ; Rubens at Malines ; The 'Descent from the Cross' and the 'Raising of the Cross' ; Rubens in the Gagllery at Antwerp ; Rubens as a portrait-painter ; The tomb of Rubens ; Van Dyck -- Holland. The Hague and Scheveningen ; Origins and character of the Dutch School ; The fish-pond ; The 'subject' in Dutch pictures ; Paul Potter ; Terborch, Metsu, and Pieter de Hooch at the Louvre ; Ruysdael ; Cuyp ; Dutch influence on French landscape painting ; The anatomy lesson ; Frans Hals at Haarlem ; Amsterdam ; The Night Watch ; Rembrandt at the Six and Van Loon Galleries, Rembrandt at the Louvre ; The Syndics ; Rembrandt -- Belgium. The brothers Van Eyck, and Memling -- The Plates -- Notes on the plates -- Selected bibliography -- Index. Subjects; Rubens, Peter Paul 1577-1640 Criticism and interpretation. Van Dyck, Anthony 1599-1641 Criticism and interpretation. Potter, Paulus 1625-1654 Criticism and interpretation. Ruisdael, Jacob van 1628 or 1629-1682 Criticism and interpretation. Cuyp, Aelbert 1620-1691 Criticism and interpretation. Hals, Frans 1584-1666 Criticism and interpretation. Criticism and interpretation. Painting, Belgian. Painting, Dutch. Painting, Belgian Criticism and interpretation. Painting, Dutch Criticism and interpretation. Peinture belge. Peinture belge Critique et interprétation.

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