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...Dyke Flouts the Unanimous Opinion of the World The reputation of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669), long ranked as the greatest painter of the Dutch school and among the half-dozen greatest of the world, received a severe jolt when, in a large, expensive book, Rembrandt and His School.* Dr. John Charles Van Dyke, Professor of the History of Art at Rutgers College, attacked the alleged Rembrandt myth, assiduously fostered by critics, collectors and the public, which has ascribed over 800 paintings of varying merit to the master. He finished by conceding authenticity to a scant 35. The rest...
Among Professor Van Dyke's "35 genuine Rembrandts " is included not a single one in any American gallery. He rejects the 18 in the Metropolitan (Manhattan), the Portrait of a Girl in the Chicago Art Institute, two in the Widener collection, which he thinks are Vermeers, and those in the Byers collection (Pittsburgh), the Evans and Gardiner collections (Boston), the Walters collection (Baltimore). The chief Metropolitan Rembrandts are the group of 13 bequeathed by Benjamin Altman in 1913, including the Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, Pilate Washing His Hands, Toilet of Bathsheba, one of the many self-portraits...
...been placed in the Fogg Art Museum. Among the prints shown are great masterpieces in engraving including Pollainole's Battle of the Nudes, Mantegna's Virgin and Child, and Battle of the Lea Gods; Albrecht Durer's Melancholia, Knight of Death, Adam and Eve, St. Gerome in his Cell; Rembrandt's Three Trees, and Three Crosses; and the Black Lion Wharf, and Fiddler; by Whistler. A group of old engraver's tools serve to make clearer the technical processes, and to make the exhibition more interesting...
...Thomas Lawrence's Boy with a Dog and Portrait of a Lady; Sir Joshua Reynolds' Portrait of Mrs. Mathew; Romney's Mrs. Chitty Marshall; Velasquez' Two Princesses; Fra Angelico's Day of Judgment; Piero di Cosimo's panels of the life of Jason; Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man, which brought $55,062; four sentimental Boucher panels for $86,184. There were also in the collection paintings by Constable, Hogarth, Raeburn, Turner, Murillo, Canaletto, Ghirlandajo, Andrea del Sarto, Veronese, Rubens, Jordaens, Teniers, Van Dyck, de Hooch, Ruysdael, Ter Borch, Van der Cappelle...
...most imortant Rubens in America, The Adoration of the Magi, has been exhibited in Toledo. ¶The American Miniature Society is exhibiting at Pittsfield. ¶The Chicago Institute has exhibited rare etchings by Rembrandt, Whistler, Anders Zorn...