Word: vermeers
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Widener does not so choose. He wants the pictures-not the financial profit. Even so, he is well ahead of the game, for this particular pair of portraits could be marketed for a good deal more than ?100,000 if they are genuine Rembrandts, or even if painted by Vermeer of Delft, as Dr. Van Dyke somewhat fantastically asserts in his disquieting book. The figure mentioned at the time of Mr. Widener's "purchase" two years...
...composition. Touching the non-graphic arts only in the sculpture of Donatello and Michelangelo and the reliefs of Ghiberti, the book scarcely fulfills its inclusive title. Orpen strives to be religiously impersonal in his praise, but his painter's predilections for Botticelli, Giorgione, Moroni, Lotto, Holbein, Hals, Velasquez, Vermeer, Chardin, Hogarth, Raeburn, Richard Wilson, shine through. Conspicuously omitted from mention is Andrea del Sarto...
...Wright's argument is cleverly sustained, though at times loose and mystical in diction. Like all large generalizations, it is too much simplified, and some pertinent questions might well be asked. What would Titian, Hals, Vermeer, Velasquez- colorists extraordinary-have said to the charge that color was only an incident to their art? Probably they would have replied in words not dissimilar to those of Ingres, when a visitor to his studio asked: " Does M. Ingres, the celebrated draughtsman, live here...
...hitherto unrecognized painting by Jan Vermeer of Delft (1632-1675), who is acclaimed by some discerning critics as the greatest painter of all time, has been discovered in Paris. It represents a young boy, half-length, full-face, auburn curls, scalloped collar, yellowish silver-gray jacket, brownish-red cloak. Many connoisseurs had seen the picture but had not suspected its authorship until a dealer, noting the resemblance to Vermeer's charming Young Girl in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, found various other clues, and was corroborated by the leading Vermeer critic...
...romance of Vermeer's resurrection after two centuries of neglect adds to the subtle fascination of his art. His pictures were forgotten and passed for DeHoochs, Metsus, Ter Borchs, even Rembrandts. Not until 1860 did the critics Burger and Havard put together the scattered evidences of his life and work. Even now there are but 37 authenticated Vermeers known - eight in the United States- and it is almost a certainty that more will be unearthed from the dust of European attics. Apart from their rarity, the qualities which give Vermeer's canvases their coveted value are their handling...