Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn: Rembrandt

by Ludwig Munz, Bob Haak

108 illustrations, including 48 tipped-in colorplates. Bound in publisher's original blue and white cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt.

150 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1967

Reviews

[William Guerrant · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautiful old-fashioned well-curated book. I enjoy seeing color prints so carefully treated.

But I can't resist saying that I was astonished to read in the description of "The Auctioneer" (1658): "I shall refrain from discussing the color of this painting because it is one of the few that I have not seen in the original." I was astonished first of all by the honesty and integrity. But secondly by the fact that the painting is in the Met! How can a scholar who has traveled the world studying Rembrandt (and whose work shows that he visited museums in New York) not have found a way to make it to the Met before publishing a large, expensive, cloth-bound volume?

[Michael P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

The writing, or perhaps the translation, is a bit stodgy, but this is otherwise a superb book.