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...only 132 items culled from the 2,500, conveys at least an idea of the collection's extraordinary range and quality. Lugt's taste was not for the quick scribble, but for clear, developed, informative drawings. The major names of 17th century Dutch painting are there: Hendrick Goltzius, Aelbert Cuyp, Jacques de Gheyn, Pieter Saenredam, Hendrick Avercamp, Ferdinand Bol. So are scores of lesser figures, known mainly to the specialist, but always represented by drawings of considerable grip and finesse...
...South via engravings and etchings; these are not included in the special exhibition. However, at the Fenway entrance on the first floor, the museum has arranged a display of prints, from its own collection, in conjunction with the Rembrandt exhibition. The print show contains late Mannerist engravings by Goltzius and others, as well as a variety of genre works, portraits, landscapes, and several Rembrandt etchings. Rembrandt's genius is more adequately shown in these prints than in the paintings upstairs...
...Seventy newly acquired prints, including a red-chalk drawing, Prudence, by the Dutch master engraver Goltzius; Rembrandt's masterly etching, Landscape with a Man Sketching (circa 1645); a rare Goya lithograph, Men Spitting at a Fire, showing the Spaniard's early use of the medium...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. Seventy recent additions to the print collection. Choice are a red chalk drawing, Prudence, by the Dutch Master Engraver Goltzius; Rembrandt's masterly little etching, Landscape with a Man Sketching (circa 1645); and a rare Goya lithograph, Men Spitting at a Fire, showing the Spaniard's early use of the medium. Also on view is the Cubiculum, a Pompeian bedroom whose walls are slathered with paintings. Buried for 18 centuries under cinders from Mount Vesuvius, it was dug up in 1900 and only recently restored by the museum...
Probably the most interesting and valuable edition is Goltzius's "Lives of the Emperors from Caesar to Charles V." This contains 157 large medallion prints of the Roman Emperors, and is very rare and of great value to collectors. It is dated...