"The age of Rembrandt and Vermeer. Masterpieces of Leiden collection" in the Pushkin Museum Pushkin
Today opens exhibition of masterpieces from the collection of Thomas S. Kaplan and Daphne Recanati-Каплан. In the exhibition — 82 works never before exhibited in Russia
the Collection of Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife Daphne Recanati-Каплан — is one of the largest and most significant private collections of Dutch painting of the XVII century in the world. In the exhibition at the Pushkin Museum you can see 2 80 paintings and graphic works of this legendary collection.
the Exhibition, the emphasis which is made in Leiden and formed around him the artistic community, talks about the origins of Rembrandt's work, and his dealings with rivals and colleagues, as well as those beautiful traditions that had developed in Holland in gold for her XVII century.
the exhibition includes masterpieces by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (twelve scenic creations and one drawing), Jan Vermeer of Delft and CAREL Fabricius (one piece), Frans Hals (two), Gerrit Dow (nine), Jan Lievens (four) and other of their distinguished contemporaries. Next to them is represented by a unique drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. The works of the great Italian does not belong to the art of the Dutch Golden age, but his small piece is a gem from the Leiden collection.
JAN leavens the Boy in the cloak and turban (Portrait of Prince Rupert of the Palatinate). About 1631
oil on Wood. To 66.7 × 51,8
Leiden collection
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LEONARDO DA VINCI the Head of a bear. Around 1485
a Silver pencil on pale-розовой paper. 7 × 7 (top corners cut)
Leiden collection
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Thomas Kaplan from a young age admired the works of Rembrandt and the masters of the Dutch Golden age. However, only in 2003, he learned that not all masterpieces are so well-loved era, including works of Rembrandt, are in museums and many of them are available on the art market. Since then, he together with his wife started an incredibly ambitious art collecting.
Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer — iconic figures of the Dutch Golden age, who made a huge contribution to the development of the art of subsequent centuries. Passionately in love with the works of Rembrandt and artists of his time (hence the name meeting — Leiden collection), the wife of Kaplan thanks to the tireless searches, based not only on the existing financial possibilities but also on an exceptionally happy the collecting fortune, in a comparatively short time become owners of amazing artistic significance of the collection of works of Dutch painting of the Golden to her the seventeenth century. Thomas and Dafna Kaplan acquired substantially all of authentic paintings by Rembrandt, who occasionally appeared on the international antique market in the last 15 years. And not only Rembrandt, but also many of his contemporaries. In a time when the creations of genius of the old (classical) art has long been distributed between the major museums and privatecollections that have deep historical roots, the couple Kaplan undertook and successfully carried out a seemingly unrealistic project: to assemble from scratch a representative and wide-ranging collection of paintings by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer of Delft and numerous chamber works of the Leiden masters — representatives of the so-called fine art (fijnschilderei).
the Leiden collection, the nucleus of which is the collection of works by Rembrandt, according to its scale and intensity is inferior except that the leading national museums in the world. Visitors to the exhibition will get acquainted with the masterpieces of the early Leiden period, Rembrandt's work from the series of allegories of the senses: "extracting the stone of folly (Allegory of touch)", "Three of a musician (Allegory of hearing)" and the recent discovery of — "Patient who fainted (Allegory of smell)," the earliest of the works, signed by the artist. The Mature period of creativity of Rembrandt that is associated with a long-lasting and fruitful work in Amsterdam is presented by paintings: "portrait of a man in a red doublet", "Girl in gold embroidered Cape," "self-Portrait with shaded eyes". Viewers will also see the famous "Minerva", which refers to a number of stylistically similar works painted by Rembrandt in the period from 1633 to 1635, the company is currently owned by the Hermitage (Saint-Петербург), Prado Museum (Madrid) and the Metropolitan Museum of art (new-Йорк).
the works of Jan Vermeer of Delft are extremely rare. The exhibition includes the painting "Girl with verginella" — is the only work of the Mature period of creativity of the great masters, which is still in a private collection. In thirty-six works of the artist, and the spectators have a unique opportunity to see one of them as creations of the master are not represented in the collections of Russian museums. This latest picture, presumably painted on canvas from the same roll, what other work of Vermeer — "Lacemaker", presented in the permanent exhibition of the Louvre.
the Exhibition includes works by contemporaries of Rembrandt: his teacher Pieter Lastman, friend and colleague Jan Lievens, with whom he shared in Leiden a Studio. Extensively presents works by Gerrit Dow, one of the first and most famous disciples of the master, and also Frans van mieris the Elder, Gerard Ter Borch, Gabriel Metso. Visitors will see the unique picture "the angel of Hagar," written by Karel Fabricius. This is one of only sixteen of his works extant.
Haarlem painter Frans Hals is known primarily as a master of original portraits, which is expressive and free manner depicted representatives of various sectors of society, including merchants, clergy and military. In the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin's show "Portrait of Samuel Ampzing" and "Portrait of Conrad Vitor".
As illustrated by the collections in Moscow and St-Петербурге, the work of all these artists was one of the most popular in Europeonly in his era, but much later.
a Valuable Supplement to the exhibition are two drawings with images of animals. One of them, which shows a young lion, belongs to Rembrandt, the other, the "bear's Head", — Leonardo da Vinci.
the curator of the exhibition: Vadim Sadkov, head of Department of art of the old masters, Lara Yeager-Красселт, curator of the Leiden collection.
Source: arts-museum.ru
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