New York, September 3rd, 2007
Nether World The Met embraces Rembrandt and his Dutch peers as only it can. THE METROPOLITAN Museum of Art, a masterpiece of the Gilded Age, owes its preeminence-and institutional ambition-to the great collectors of that period. And there was nothing that a wealthy New Yorker of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries liked better, as a rule, than a Dutch painting. Not only were Rembrandt. Hals, and Vermeer admired by the connoisseurs of New Amsterdam, but they also suited the American taste for realism and a kind of moralizing Protestant modesty. (A magnate who placed a humble Dutc...
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