Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Metropolitan Museum of Art

The two volumes of this catalogue encompass the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Flemish paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The term "Flemish," here, refers to the whole of the southern, or Spanish, Netherlands, and implies the very approximate dates of 1600 to 1800. This collection has considerable variety, with outstanding works by such prominent northern European artists as Rubens, van Dyck, Jordaens, and Brouwer. Volume 1 contains the Catalogue and Indices, as well as 50 black & white plates. Volume 2 contains 16 color plates and 111 black & white plates.

343 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, (colloquially, the “Met”) is the largest art museum in the United States.

It was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."