Author : Cornelis Hofstede De Groot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2017-11-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780331454192
Book Description
Excerpt from A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 1 Those paintings which have not found a permanent home in public collections tend more and more to be scattered over the wide world. For the individual student it becomes, therefore, a task of increasing difficulty to gain a complete knowledge of these works from personal inspection. Not only are pictures banished to California, South Africa, or Australia they may also at a public sale pass through an intermediary into the hands of a recluse, so that for a generation or longer they may be hidden from the View of the amateur of art. The only method of preserving these vagrant pictures for the benefit of students is to reproduce them, or, as reproduction is in most cases impossible, to describe them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.