DOI issue:
Nr. 333 (February 1925)
DOI article:Flint, Ralph: John N. Willys Collection
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19984#0110
mceRHACionAL
A MUSIC PARTY BY PIETER DE HOOCH
comes from the Saltmarshe, Morland and Levy Before the English and French paintings arc
Collections, and is one of the most colorful notes introduced, the Velasquez canvas calls for a more
in the Willys group of old masters. "The View extended appreciation, because like all the can-
of a Water-Mill" by Meindert Hobbema hangs vases from the hand of that prince of painters,
in the Willys dining room, a very inviting pros- it is a piece of a most interesting and charming
pect of cool countryside and cloudy sky amid the nature. Together with the Bellini, it was shown
dark and heavy splendors of this Italian interior, at the Fiftieth Anniversary Loan Exhibition held
It is one of those extensive views so popular with at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and ap-
the Dutch Iandscapists, filled with carefully devel- peared most creditably among its very distin-
oped vegetation and with incidental touches of guished neighbors. It is very like certain can-
cottage life. The foreground figures of shepherds vases of the master's latest period and shows the
and their charges are by Adrian Van de Velde. head and shoulders of a young peasant girl, hair
Philips Wouverman's "Halt at the Inn" is another and white sleeveless bodice somewhat in disorder,
of the genre-landscapes so often favored by the holding an open volume in one hand to which she
Dutch painters, and is one of the many versions points with the other. There are many passages
of this scene which Wouverman painted. A gray of fine tone and rhythm, and the whole composi-
horse is the focal point of the composition which tion is exceedingly pleasing. But, withal, it only
includes a number of figures grouped about the approximates the magic touch of Spain's greatest
entrance to a dilapidated and picturesque old inn. painter.
It is from the Nieuwenhuys Collection and is The English group is composed of Gainsbor-
fully authenticated by Dr. Hofstede de Groot, ough, Lawrence, Romney and Hoppner, with
an authority on this master. Raeburn added for good Scotch measure. John
three seventy
FEBRUARY I 9 2 5
A MUSIC PARTY BY PIETER DE HOOCH
comes from the Saltmarshe, Morland and Levy Before the English and French paintings arc
Collections, and is one of the most colorful notes introduced, the Velasquez canvas calls for a more
in the Willys group of old masters. "The View extended appreciation, because like all the can-
of a Water-Mill" by Meindert Hobbema hangs vases from the hand of that prince of painters,
in the Willys dining room, a very inviting pros- it is a piece of a most interesting and charming
pect of cool countryside and cloudy sky amid the nature. Together with the Bellini, it was shown
dark and heavy splendors of this Italian interior, at the Fiftieth Anniversary Loan Exhibition held
It is one of those extensive views so popular with at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and ap-
the Dutch Iandscapists, filled with carefully devel- peared most creditably among its very distin-
oped vegetation and with incidental touches of guished neighbors. It is very like certain can-
cottage life. The foreground figures of shepherds vases of the master's latest period and shows the
and their charges are by Adrian Van de Velde. head and shoulders of a young peasant girl, hair
Philips Wouverman's "Halt at the Inn" is another and white sleeveless bodice somewhat in disorder,
of the genre-landscapes so often favored by the holding an open volume in one hand to which she
Dutch painters, and is one of the many versions points with the other. There are many passages
of this scene which Wouverman painted. A gray of fine tone and rhythm, and the whole composi-
horse is the focal point of the composition which tion is exceedingly pleasing. But, withal, it only
includes a number of figures grouped about the approximates the magic touch of Spain's greatest
entrance to a dilapidated and picturesque old inn. painter.
It is from the Nieuwenhuys Collection and is The English group is composed of Gainsbor-
fully authenticated by Dr. Hofstede de Groot, ough, Lawrence, Romney and Hoppner, with
an authority on this master. Raeburn added for good Scotch measure. John
three seventy
FEBRUARY I 9 2 5