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Nr. 155 (January 1910)
DOI Artikel:Hoeber, Arthur: Some pictures from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19868#0431
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Toft
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Tajt Coitrlcsy o] Scott &= Fowles
a landscape with cattle and figures by meindert hobbema
SOME PICTURES FROM THE COL- The ten pictures that New York enjoyed were
LECTION OF MR. AND MRS. loaned for the opening of the beautiful new galleries
CHARLES P. TAFT of the dealers, Scott & Fowles, 590 Fifth Avenue,
BY ARTHUR HOEBER and were entirely the work of the older masters of
the Dutch and Early English schools. And very
Surely New York has been fortunate thus far well they went together, these painters of the Low
this winter in having remarkable shows of pictures Countries and the Georgian artists, for the Gains-
by the princes in art, beginning with the sump- boroughs, the Raeburns and dear old Sir Joshua
tuous feast set before the public by the Hudson- Reynolds held their own in the stately company
Fulton Art Commission, at the Metropolitan Mu- of Rembrandt, Hals and Hobbema. Perhaps as
seum of Art. Before these wonderful canvases much as anything else to interest the visitor was the
were removed came a collection of ten paintings, fact that it was possible at this late day to amass
generously loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft, such admirable paintings by men dead and gone
of Cincinnati, collectors of great note, who, begin- these two hundred and forty years, more or less, not
ning modestly with ceramics, rock crystals and only to find them available, but also to discover
other such objects of art, finally went into the pic- them in such well-nigh perfect condition. Here is a
ture field. The owners are eclectic connoisseurs, Rembrandt, for example, in an earlier manner, full
confining themselves to no special school, but with of the refinement of considerable detail, showing a
breadth and catholicity, finding the good wherever young man rising from his chair. He is in somber
it existed, so that, from the most modern to the black and extends one hand in a natural attitude,
craftsman of many years ago, their home is replete and he is full of humanity. Indeed, humanity is the
with admirable examples. keynote of the figures here. You are convinced at a
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Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Tajt Coitrlcsy o] Scott &= Fowles
a landscape with cattle and figures by meindert hobbema
SOME PICTURES FROM THE COL- The ten pictures that New York enjoyed were
LECTION OF MR. AND MRS. loaned for the opening of the beautiful new galleries
CHARLES P. TAFT of the dealers, Scott & Fowles, 590 Fifth Avenue,
BY ARTHUR HOEBER and were entirely the work of the older masters of
the Dutch and Early English schools. And very
Surely New York has been fortunate thus far well they went together, these painters of the Low
this winter in having remarkable shows of pictures Countries and the Georgian artists, for the Gains-
by the princes in art, beginning with the sump- boroughs, the Raeburns and dear old Sir Joshua
tuous feast set before the public by the Hudson- Reynolds held their own in the stately company
Fulton Art Commission, at the Metropolitan Mu- of Rembrandt, Hals and Hobbema. Perhaps as
seum of Art. Before these wonderful canvases much as anything else to interest the visitor was the
were removed came a collection of ten paintings, fact that it was possible at this late day to amass
generously loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft, such admirable paintings by men dead and gone
of Cincinnati, collectors of great note, who, begin- these two hundred and forty years, more or less, not
ning modestly with ceramics, rock crystals and only to find them available, but also to discover
other such objects of art, finally went into the pic- them in such well-nigh perfect condition. Here is a
ture field. The owners are eclectic connoisseurs, Rembrandt, for example, in an earlier manner, full
confining themselves to no special school, but with of the refinement of considerable detail, showing a
breadth and catholicity, finding the good wherever young man rising from his chair. He is in somber
it existed, so that, from the most modern to the black and extends one hand in a natural attitude,
craftsman of many years ago, their home is replete and he is full of humanity. Indeed, humanity is the
with admirable examples. keynote of the figures here. You are convinced at a
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