Rembrandt, Reputation, And The Practice Of Connoisseurship

c at h e r i n e b. s c a l l e n rembrandt, reputation, and the practice of connoisseurship amsterdam university press R e m b r a n d t, R e p u t at i o n , and the Practice of Connoisseurship C a t h e r i n e B. S c a l l e n Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship amsterdam university press Cover design and lay out Kok Korpershoek, Amsterdam Cover illustration Rembrandt Circle, Man with the Golden Helmet. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie. Photograph by Jörg P. Anders. © Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. isbn 90 5356 625 2 nur 640 © Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2004 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. ta b l e o f c o n t e n t s 7 photographic credits 11 Acknowledgements 15 introduction chapter 1 35 The Rise of a New Art Historian Wilhelm Bode and the Beginnings of Modern Rembrandt Connoisseurship chapter 2 87 Wilhelm Bode’s and Giovanni Morelli’s Debates about Connoisseurship chapter 3 103 Who is Rembrandt? Bode and His Protégés in Rembrandt Studies 5 chapter 4 127 The Rembrandt Dec ade chapter 5 181 Rembrandt in Americ a chapter 6 211 The Contest for Authority chapter 7 241 Rembrandt. Rediscovered Paintings and the Debate over Method chapter 8 281 Van Dyke and Rembrandt chapter 9 301 The End of an Era 321 afterword 329 notes 381 bibliography 406 index 6 photographic credits 1 Wilhelm von Bode Standing in his Office in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, 1915. From the original photograph from the Bode family through Herrn Dr. Rimpau. © Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. 2 Abraham Bredius, about 1935. Royal Cabinet of Paintings, Mauritshuis, The Hague. 3 Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, 1929. From H.E. van Gelder and H. Gerson, Levensbericht van Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot met bibliographie, Leyden, 1931. 4 Wilhelm R. Valentiner, 1919. From Margaret Sterne, The Passionate Eye: The Life of William R. Valentiner. Detroit, 1980. 5 Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632. Royal Cabinet of Paintings, Mauritshuis, The Hague. 6 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, The Night Watch, 1642. Collectie Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. © Rijksmuseum-Stichting Amsterdam. 7 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, The Syndics, 1661/2. Collectie Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. © Rijksmuseum-Stichting Amsterdam. 8 Rembrandt, The Entombment, ca. 1635-39. Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek. 9 Copy after Rembrandt van Rijn, The Entombment of Christ, after 1639. Herzog Anton UlrichMuseums Braunschweig, Kunstmuseum des Landes Niedersachsen. 10 Rembrandt (Workshop?), The Entombment of Christ, 1653. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. 11 Rembrandt, Self-Portrait with a Gorget, ca. 1629. Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg. 12 (After) Rembrandt, Portrait of Rembrandt as a Young Man, 1629. Royal Cabinet of Paintings, Mauritshuis, The Hague. 13 Rembrandt Workshop, Portrait of Rembrandt with Shaded Eyes. Staatliche Museen Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. © Staatl. Museen Kassel. 14 Rembrandt, Self-Portrait as a Youth, 1629. Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, Munich. 15 Rembrandt, Portrait of a Pair of Old Testament Figures, called “