BROOKLYN, NY.- A small, jewel-like portrait, circa 1631, that has been in the Brooklyn Museum collection since 1932 and has not been on public view since early 1945, has recently been reattributed to Rembrandt’s first pupil, Gerrit Dou. It has just …
Museum in Poland Acquires a Missing Collection of Composer Frederic Chopin’s Letters
WARSAW (AP).- A collection of Frederic Chopin’s letters telling of the Polish composer’s daily life, from giving lessons to the hot chocolate he drank, have gone on display in Warsaw’s Chopin museum more than six decades after they went missing. The s…
An Old Bearded Man by Gerard Dou; A Highlight in the Old Master Paintings Sale at Sotheby’s
AMSTERDAM.- Sotheby’s Amsterdam Old Master Paintings sale on 30th November 2010 will feature An old bearded man by the Leiden fijnschilder Gerard Dou (1613 – 1675). This recently discovered and hitherto unrecorded little panel was part of a p…
An Old Bearded Man by Gerard Dou; A Highlight in the Old Master Paintings Sale at Sotheby’s Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- Sotheby’s Amsterdam Old Master Paintings sale on 30th November 2010 will feature An old bearded man by the Leiden fijnschilder Gerard Dou (1613 – 1675). This recently discovered and hitherto unrecorded little panel was part of a p…
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Claims Painting is by Rembrandt Not His Pupil
ROTTERDAM.- We have just been informed that Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has a new Rembrandt in the collection. According to the new standard work on the painter, the painting ‘Tobias and His Wife’ is not the work of a pupil of Rembrandt, bu…