Catalogue of the Valuable Paintings and Sculptures by Old and Modern Masters Forming the Famous Catholina Lambert Collection (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...r and Mr. 15. Altnian must be adiled that of. Mr. Cath-olina Lambert. All these men began to collect on the lines that were popular at the time, but as their intimate ac(uaintanceship witii the old masters grew, so tlieir loe for them increased. Mr. Lambert, who has been one of the most enterprising and energetic of American collectors for iiearlv half a ceiiturv, has made a wise and admirable compromise between the old masters and the modern, by collecting and retaining such of the latter as have everv promise of what may be termed permanency. The Old Listers can always take care of themselves, for thev will always remain more or less unaffected by the changes in fashion and taste. JNIr. Lambert has succeeded in getting together one of the largest collections now existing in jirivate iiands. In forming it lie lias relied largely upon his own judgment. This large and varied collection is now to be dispersed; its many units will in the immediate future find new homes and help to adorn other collections, and the pleasure which they have given to the present owner will be transferred to others. No one, and least of all Ir. Lambert, will be disposed to insist that all these pictures are masterpieces. All collections, public as well as private, contain pictures which are interesting rather than great; and it is not always the important pictures which give the greatest pleasure to the owner. And it is the interesting jiictures, perhaps, which constitute the backbone of the Lambert collection. There are, nevertheless, many of the first rank of importance, both among the Old Masters and the modern. Special attention may be drawn to the Andrea del Sarto, to the Botticelli, to the Luini altar-piece, and to the Rembrandt portrait of a Rabbi. As in...