Lugt

With one exception from the Metropolitan Museum, all of the drawings at the Frick come from the collection that Lugt began to assemble at the precocious age of 14.

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While Frick collected big oil paintings the way Theodore Roosevelt collected big game, Lugt inclined toward the humbler, frailer medium of drawings.

Two Complementary Quests James Gardner 2011

Thirty-five years younger than Frick, Lugt had almost a modernist's appreciation of the fresh and wayward spontaneity in Rembrandt's drawings, as well as in the drawings of such followers of the master as Lambert Doomer, Govert Flinck and Philips Koninck, who are also included in the exhibition.

Two Complementary Quests James Gardner 2011

Yet it was precisely such passion that animated two of his latest and most fervent votaries, the collectors Henry Clay Frick and Frits Lugt.

Two Complementary Quests James Gardner 2011

Though fairly well-to-do by birth and marriage, Lugt was hardly in the same league as Frick, who liked to boast that he owned more railroad shares than any man alive.

Two Complementary Quests James Gardner 2011

And his motives for collecting Rembrandts were somewhat different from Lugt's: Quite aside from the Dutch master's pure, monetized heft, Rembrandt was the greatest Protestant painter in history, which meant a lot to Anglo-Saxon sensibilities more than a century ago.

Two Complementary Quests James Gardner 2011

Let it also be said that, as a Dutchman, Lugt's interest in Rembrandt cannot be separated from national pride.

Two Complementary Quests James Gardner 2011

As a tribute to both men, the Frick Collection has just mounted about 80 paintings, drawings and etchings in "Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections."

Two Complementary Quests James Gardner 2011

Artaria (Lugt 33), and Sophie Rosenwald Adler (not in Lugt).

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