Research Catalog

Title

Old masters, new world : America's raid on Europe's great pictures, 1880-World War I / Cynthia Saltzman.

Author

Saltzman, Cynthia

Publication

New York : Viking, 2008.

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Details

Description

x, 336 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

"Old Masters, New World" is the story of beauty, aesthetics, and taste; money, trade, and power. It is a backstage look at the part played in American collecting by experts like Bernard Berenson and dealers like Colnaghi, Knoedler, and Duveena who raced around Europe to negotiate purchases and sales of the rarest and most costly masterpieces"--From publisher description.

Subject

• Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959
• Carstairs, Charles, 1910-
• Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919
• Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
• Gutekunst, Otto
• Havemeyer, Henry Osborne, 1847-1907
• Havemeyer, Louisine Waldron Elder
• Marquand, Henry Gurdon, 1819-1902
• Morgan, J. Pierpont 1837-1913
• Bode, Wilhelm von, 1845-1929
• Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926
• Raphael, 1483-1520
• Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
• Titian, approximately 1488-1576
• Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir, 1599-1641
• Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675
• Titian, approximately 1488-1576
• Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641
• Painting, European
• Painting > History > United States > 19th century
• Painting > History > United States > 20th century
• Painting > Europe > History > 19th century
• Painting > Europe > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-324) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. THE COLLECTORS. Henry Gurdon Marquand and van Dyck's portrait of James Stuart -- Isabella Stewart Gardner, Bernard Berenson, Otto Gutekunst, and Titian's "Europa" -- J. Pierpont Morgan, Raphael's "Colonna Madonna," Gainsborouogh's "Georgianna," Reynolds's "Lady Elizabeth Delme," and Lawrence's "Elizabeth Farren" -- Mary Cassatt, Harry and Louisine Havemeyer, Spain, and El Greco -- Henry Clay Frick, Charles Carstairs, Otto Gutekunst, and the Ilchester Rembrandt -- 2. THE PAINTING BOOM. Joseph Duveen enters the old master market -- Holbein's "Christina of Denmark," Rembrandt's "Polish Rider," Velazquez's "Philip IV," three Vermeers, and record prices -- Bellini's "St. Francis" and falling prices -- 3. THE GREAT WAR AND THE PICTURE MARKET. Old master spoils -- Bellini and Titian's masterpiece comes on the market.

ISBN

• 9780670018314
• 0670018317

LCCN

^^2008022141

OCLC

• 180754924
• SCSB-10925057

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library