Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age

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Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age presents the finest pieces from one of the most important private collections in the field, The Leiden Collection, New York, alongside a selection from the Louvre's holdings. This exhibition catalogue illuminates the extraordinary art that flourished during the Dutch Golden Age in the seventeenth century - a time of unprecedented prosperity. Pioneering still life, realism, portraiture, landscape and genre painting, artists such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jan Lievens, Gerrit Dou, Frans van Mieris and Frans Hals infused new life into Dutch art, forming a national artistic awakening. Here, their collective work provides a glimpse into the Dutch Golden Age, where the encounter with the new inspired enthralling forms of artistic expressions.

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Blaise Ducos is curator of seventeenth- and eigthteenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Musee du Louvre in Paris. Ducos organised the exhibition Frans Post. Brazil in the Court of Louis XIV (Musee du Louvre, 2005) with Pedro Correa do Lago as well as The Revolutions of the Classical Age (2009, Tokyo and Kyoto). Along with George Keyes and Lloyd DeWitt, Ducos is curator of the Rembrandt et la figure du Christ (English: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus) exhibition (Musee du Louvre, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Detroit Institute of Arts, 2011-2012) Lara Yeager-Crasselt is curator of The Leiden Collection in New York. She was formerly Interim Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Clark Art Institute. A specialist in early modern Dutch and Flemish art, Yeager received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 2013. She has held research positions at KU Leuven, Belgium (as a Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellow) and in the Department of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art, and has served as Professorial Lecturer of Art History at The George Washington University and at The Catholic University of America. Her publications include Michael Sweerts (1618-1664): Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels.