museums and institutions:
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I. Madonna and Child, by Simon Vouet (1590-1649). Canvas, 118 by 132 cm. Inv.No.3171. After Travelling to London, Constantinople and Venice, Vouet Arrived in Rome in 1613-14, and Was Elected President of the Academy of St Luke in 1624. This Caravaggesque Work Was Painted in Rome, Probably around 1622, before He Was Recalled to France by Louis XIII in 1627.
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II. Belisarius receiving arms, by Mattia Preti (1613-99). 152.5 by 198.5 cm. Inv.no.3245. Acquired with the aid of the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Foundation. A painting by Preti had long been a desideratum of the Museum when this major example was purchased at auction in London in 1991. According to John Spike the picture, which is now one of the highlights of the Rotterdam collection, was probably painted when the artist was in Malta in the 1660s.
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III. Joshua and the Children of Israel crossing the Jordan, by Karel van Mander (1548-1606). Panel, 108 by 184.5 cm. Inv.no.3200. Acquired with the aid of the Vereniging Rembrandt and various Rotterdam funds. Of the three painters who became the leading artists of their generation in Haarlem around 1600, the museum already possessed works by Hendrick Goltzius and Cornelis van Haarlem, while the third, Karel van Mander, was unrepresented until the acquisition of this major work. In the group of figures are portraits of Isaack van Gherwen and his wife, Duijfken Roch, while the bearer of the Ark of the Covenant is a self-portrait of the artist, 'already sick, but looking well' as we are told, probably by his son, in the second edition of Van Mander's Schilder-boeck.
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IV Sts Catherine and Barbara, by the Master of the Embroidered Foliage (active 1490-1510). Panel, each 94 by 62 cm. Inv.nos.3168 and 3169. Bequeathed by Mrs M. J. L. D. van Wickevoort-Crommelin. The Master of the Embroidered Foliage was a follower of Rogier van der Weyden active in Brussels c. 1500. The panels are fragments of an altar-piece which showed the Madonna and Child.
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IX. Portrait of a cow, by Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629). Panel, 76.5 by 59.5 cm. Signed with monogram on the left horn. Inv.no.3243; acquired with a gift of the Erasmus Foundation. De Gheyn II, better known as a draughtsman, painted this panel in a sketchy alla prima technique between 1626 and 1629, probably using one of his own cows as a model. His son, Jacques de Gheyn III, used this image in his St Luke now in the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.
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V. Sts Catherine and Barbara, by the Master of the Embroidered Foliage (active 1490-1510). Panel, each 94 by 62 cm. Inv.nos.3168 and 3169. Bequeathed by Mrs M. J. L. D. van Wickevoort-Crommelin. The Master of the Embroidered Foliage was a follower of Rogier van der Weyden active in Brussels c. 1500. The panels are fragments of an altar-piece which showed the Madonna and Child.
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VI. Portrait of a man, by Louis Leopold Boilly (1761-1845). Canvas, 26.5 by 22 cm. Inv.no.3173; acquired with a donation by C. F. A. Roelofsz. This small painting, still in its original frame, is a good example of the way in which Boilly portrayed his bourgeois sitters. The unknown man is wearing a dark green jacket, white waistcoat and shirt.
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VII. Perseus and Andromeda, by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1606). Panel, 25 by 19 cm. Inv.no.3199 (on loan from the Netherlands Office for the Fine Arts). This sketch for the decoration of the Torre de la Parada in Madrid joins five others by Rubens in the same series which the Museum already owned. The Perseus and Andromeda sketch had been in the collection of F. Mannheimer, who sold it to the Germans in 1941; it was purchased at auction in Vienna by the Netherlands Office for the Fine Arts, who have placed it on permanent loan to the Museum.
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VIII. Italian landscape near Rome, by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750-1819). Paper laid down on canvas, 25 by 34 cm. Inv.no. St 143; acquired by the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Foundation. This oil-sketch belongs to a small group of works by de Valenciennes, which emerged in 1973 in Paris. Our sketch was probably painted en plein air around 1780 during his second visit to Italy. The landscape is still unidentified.
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X. Landscape with river bank, by Jan van Goyen (1595-1656). Panel, 23 by 36.5 cm. Signed with monogram on the boat at the right. Inv.no.3198; bequeathed by Mr R. C. Burlage. The subdued colours, with tints in grey, brown and green, make it clear that this panel was painted in the 1630s. There is a second and somewhat larger version of this composition.
