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Getty Research Institute Study Photographs of Flemish paintings and drawings (post-1600, pre-1800)
76.P.59
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Title: Study photographs of Flemish paintings and drawings (post-1600, pre-1800)
Date (inclusive): 1900s
Number: 76.P.59
Physical Description:
124 Linear Feet
(594 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
Business Number: (310) 440-7390
Fax Number: (310) 440-7780
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
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Abstract: A collection of photographs covering Flemish painting and drawing from the 17th through the 18th centuries assembled by the
Getty Research Institute.
Language: Collection material is in English
Biographical / Historical Note
In 1974, the J. Paul Getty Museum began assembling a "photo library" by consolidating the visual resources of each existing
curatorial department. By the early 1980s, the Photo Archive was actively acquiring large collections of photographs from
commercial and private sources and scholars' archives that contained a photographic component. In 1983, the nearly one million
photographs of the Photo Archive were incorporated into the Research Institute's Special Collections and renamed the Photo
Study Collection.
The
Photo Study Collection Database includes photograph level access to a portion of the photographs in this collection.
Open for use by qualified researchers. For further information, consult the
Guide to the Photo Study Collection and Database .
Photographs and permission to publish must be obtained from copyright holder(s).For further information, contact
Library Rights and Reproductions .
Finding aid created in 2009.
Scope and Content of Collection
A collection of photographs covering Flemish painting and drawing from the 17th through the 18th centuries assembled by the
Getty Research Institute. Seventeenth-century paintings are particularly well documented, through images of works in private
collections and small museums as well as major public collections. The work of approximately 700 artists is represented, with
strong holdings for Jan Brueghel I, Jan Brueghel II, Pieter Brueghel II, Anthony van Dyck, Jan Fyt, Jacob Jordaens, Joos II
de Momper, David Teniers II, and Peter Paul Rubens. The collection contains photographs from the archives of a number of scholars
and conservators, including J.G. van Gelder, Jaap Bolten (Dutch and Flemish drawings, including photographs from the collection
of J.Q. van Regteren Altena), Neil MacLaren, Sophus Michaëlis, Giannino Marchig, Mauro Pellicioli, and Erwin Panofsky. A
part of the repository's Honnef Archive has also been integrated with this collection. Other scholarly sources include photographs
acquired from Pomona College. Art dealers' archives constitute another source of the images in this collection. Photographs
and auction catalog clippings come from the Amsterdam dealer P. de Boer and from Douwes Fine Art Gallery and Duits in London.
The Flemish school is also illustrated by photographs from French & Company, Julius Weitzner, and David Koetser, as well as
by duplicates of prints also found in the repository's Heim Gallery archive (Special Collections accn. no. 910004). Copy prints
represent works held in public and private collections and at auction (particularly Sotheby's and Christie's), including Flemish
works in the Ashmolean Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the national galleries in Dublin, London, and Washington D.C.,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; copy prints were also acquired through a campaign to document
the holdings of French provincial collections. Commercial vendors and photographers include Bulloz, Photographie Giraudon,
Fratelli Alinari, Bruckmann, Saskia, and Gernsheim's Corpus photographicum of drawings.
The photographs are arranged alphabetically by artist with unidentified artists at the beginning and miscellaneous oversize
materials at the end.
Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968 -- Photograph collections
Marchig, Giannino, 1897-1983 -- Photograph collections
Michaëlis, Sophus, 1865-1932 -- Photograph collections
Pellicioli, Mauro -- Photograph collections
Bolten, J. -- Photograph collections
Gelder, J. G. van (Jan Gerrit) -- Photograph collections
MacLaren, Neil -- Photograph collections
Kunsthandel P. de Boer -- Photograph collections
Julius H. Weitzner, Inc. -- Photograph collections
David Koetser Gallery -- Photograph collections
Douwes Fine Art Gallery (London, England) -- Photograph collections
Duits, Ltd. (Gallery : London, England) -- Photograph collections
French & Company (New York, N.Y.) -- Photograph collections
Painting, Flemish
Clippings (information artifacts)
Gelatin silver prints -- 20th century
Drawing, Flemish