Yesterday I posted a brief mention of van Ruisdael as representing the Golden Age of Dutch painting. Tuesday, September 18, New York Times, first page of The Arts section, reproduces a beautiful painting of Wheat Fields, by van Ruisdael. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just opened a new show called the Age of Rembrandt that includes 5 van Ruisdaels, as well as paintings by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, van Ruysdaels (not to be confused with Ruisdael), and 8 by Gerard ter Borch.
For you Corcoranites, we own a lovely pair of wedding portraits by ter Borch.
According to the Times, the Met has "packaged" the show with a theme: money. Rather than sorting the works by artists and dates, it is sorted by the names and dates of the collectors who bought and gave the paintings to the museum. So you will recognize names like J. P. Morgan and Vanderbilt.
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