Catchpenny prints rank among the most fascinating ephemera produced in the Dutch Republic. Yet aside from a series of what are essentially coffee-table books penned by Maurits de Meyer decades ago, an [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Love Letters. Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer
A decade ago, few connoisseurs of old master painting would have listed the Bruce Museum, in suburban Greenwich, Connecticut, among major exhibition venues. Peter Sutton, who joined the Bruce as [...] Read More
Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age
Visitors to Edinburgh in the summer of 2004 had the good fortune of finding the crème de la crème of the British Royal Collection's Dutch paintings in the Queen's Gallery at the Palace of [...] Read More
Het Kabinet der Statuen
The Frisian painter and writer Wybrand de Geest (around 1660-1716) is often confused with his grandfather who had the same name (1591-after 1661). The latter was also called "the Eagle" in honor of [...] Read More
Rembrandt’s Jews
This study is a thoughtful, lively, and wide-ranging discussion of Amsterdam's Jews - as they appear in Rembrandt's art, as they had business dealings with the artist, and as they lived as new [...] Read More
Picturing Men and Women in the Dutch Golden Age: Paintings and People in Historical Perspective
The central thesis of this book is a relatively simple one: that the primary destination of most paintings produced in the Dutch Republic was the home, and that in this environment, men and women [...] Read More