Word: berchem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared last week that Director Pratt had unearthed a highly unusual hoard from the old Crocker cache. Of 60 drawings which have never been seen before in the U. S., the majority on display were by expert Flemish and Dutch draftsmen of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Nicolaas Berchem, Phillips Wouwerman, Willem van Bemmel, Jakob van Ruysdael, Rembrandt, Rubens. Among the paintings which had been cleaned off and hung decently were a Madonna by Andrea del Sarto, portraits by the Elder and Younger Lucas Cranach, a panel by Pieter ("Hell") Breughel, works of Poussin, Van Dyck, Guido Reni, Durer, Tintoretto...
...realm of landscape, there are the sunny restful Italian scenes of Jan Both and Nicholas Berchem. Some-what more Dutch in character are the sweeping compositions of Jan van Goyen and Solomon and Jacob Ruisdael, the gloomy moonlight view of Aart van der Neer, the wind-swept crags of Everdingen, and the quiet seas of William van der Velde. The genre painters are well represented by the rollicking drawings of Adrian van Ostade and Jan Steen, and the somewhat more restrained compositions of Nicholas Maes and Cornelius Dusart. Painters of animals are illustrated by brilliant little sketches of Paul Potter...
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