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- Title
COLLECTING OLD MASTERS FOR NEW YORK: HENRY GURDON MARQUAND AND THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.
- Authors
Quodbach, Esmée
- Abstract
The subject of this article is the collector Henry Gurdon Marquand (1819-1902), banker and railroad financier, and a noted member of the burgeoning class of newly prosperous business magnates of Gilded Age New York. An exceptionally civic-minded patron, Marquand set out in the early 1880s to assemble a group of first-class Old Master paintings for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This paper explores Marquand's acquisitions, especially the Flemish and Dutch paintings he bought. Focusing on Marquand's 1889 gift of thirty-seven Old Masters to the museum--the first gift of its kind--this paper also considers Marquand's aspirations, not only as a major private collector but especially as a leading donor to the institution, whose second president he became in 1889.
- Subjects
OLD Masters collecting; MARQUAND, Henry Gurdon, 1819-1902; DUTCH painting
- Publication
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2017, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1949-9833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5092/jhna.2017.9.1.2