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Etchings by Rembrandt are on exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum. All of the prints shown are from the collection of the Museum...
...collections in its completeness, variety, and setting. Paintings and sculpture from all over the world, and of the different epochs are to be seen harmoniously arranged together. In the collection are original masterpieces by the great Italian painters Raphael, Botticelli, titian, and Giotto, the Flemish Van Dyck, Rubens, and Rembrandt, and the Spaniard Velasquez. Besides paintings, there are numerous other well known pieces of art, such as Romanesque sculptures and a bust by Cellini...
...illustrate the art of engraving as it was practiced in the Netherlands in the early 16th century, and Dutch art in the fulness of its flowering is shown by a group of drawings and etchings by the 17th century painter and one of the world's greatest master etchers, Rembrandt. The pen-drawing of an old man shows how perfectly the great artist knew how to choose the significant line, omitting all that was not essential, and a wash drawing of Joseph in the Carpenter's Shop is a good illustration of his use of chiaroscuro. Of the etchings shown...
...received the following permanent and temporary loans: From a friend of the Museum, two bronzes by Paul Manship, "Centaur and Nymph" and "Dancer and Gazelies"; also an oil painting by James McNeill Whistler, "Symphony in blue and silver--Trouville." From J. Pierpont Morgan '89, 26 original drawings by Rembrandt, now on view in the Print Room. From Messrs. Duveen Bros., of New York City, a "Madonna and Child," by Matteo da Siena, and a "Madonna Adoring the Child," by Piero di Cosimo, on exhibition in the gallery. From Mortimer L. Schiff, the Cogswell collection of original drawings by old masters...
...Inghirami, the "Rape of Europe," by Titian, called by Rubens "the first picture in the world," and best known of all, the "Portrait of Thomas Howard," by Rubens. Botticelli, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Giorgione and Cellini, are among the Italians represented, and there is a splendid group of canvasses by Rembrandt. This opportunity is one of which students who wish to broaden their interests should not fail to take advantage. One seldom is able to see in America so many objects of artistic value and historical interest of every description as crowd the rooms of this most remarkable of American residences...