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Scope and Content of Collection
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Study photographs of Netherlandish paintings and drawings
Creator:
Douwes Fine Art Gallery (London, England)
Creator:
Kunsthandel P. de Boer
Creator:
Duits, Ltd. (Gallery : London, England)
Creator:
Pellicioli, Mauro, 1887-1974
Creator:
Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968
Creator:
Getty Research Institute
Creator:
Gelder, J. G. van (Jan Gerrit), 1903-1980
Creator:
Marchig, Giannino, 1897-1983
Creator:
Goldscheider, Ludwig, 1896-1973
Identifier/Call Number: 76.P.58
Physical Description:
82 Linear Feet
(394 boxes)
Date: 19--?
Abstract: A collection of photographs covering Netherlandish (Dutch and Flemish) paintings and drawings of
the 14th through 16th centuries assembled by the Getty Research Institute.
Language of Material: English
Arrangement note
The photographs are arranged alphabetically by artist with unidentified artists at the beginning and miscellaneous oversize
materials at the end.
Processing History
Finding aid created in 2009. Revised and expanded from 2021-2023 by Daniel Powazek under the supervision of Ann Harrison.
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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.
Scope and Content of Collection
A collection of photographs covering Netherlandish (Dutch and Flemish) paintings and drawings of the 14th through 16th centuries
assembled by the Getty
Research Institute. The collection documents the work of some 454 artists; those most heavily represented include: Hieronymus
Bosch, Dierick Bouts,
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Robert Campin, Joos van Cleve, Jan van Eyck, Hugo van der Goes, Hendrick Goltzius, Jan Gossaert,
Marten van Heemskerck,
Adriaen Isenbrant, Quentin Massys, Hans Memling, Anthonis Mor, Bernart van Orley, Jan van Scorel, and Rogier van der Weyden.
The collection contains photographs from a number of sources, including the archives of scholars and restorers such as J.G.
van Gelder, Ludwig
Goldscheider, Erwin Panofsky, Giannino Marchig, and Mauro Pellicioli. Photographs and auction clippings were acquired from
the archives of dealers,
including Douwes Fine Art Gallery, Duits, de Boer, and David Koetser. Copy prints were obtained from commercial photographers
such as Fratelli Alinari
(including the Brogi archive), Photographie Giraudon, Böhm, Bulloz, and Bruckmann, as well as from Christie's, Sotheby's and
a number of museums,
notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Prado, the Rijksmuseum, and Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum. Relevant duplicate
images from the
repository's archive of the Hoefle firm (Special Collections accn. no. 90.R.19) have been integrated into the collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Drawing, Flemish
Drawing, Dutch
Clippings (information artifacts)
Gelatin silver prints -- 20th century
Painting, Flemish
Painting, Dutch
Goldscheider, Ludwig -- Photograph collections
Marchig, Giannino, 1897-1983 -- Photograph collections
Pellicioli, Mauro -- Photograph collections
Gelder, J. G. van (Jan Gerrit) -- Photograph collections
Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968 -- Photograph collections
Douwes Fine Art Gallery (London, England) -- Photograph collections
Duits, Ltd. (Gallery : London, England) -- Photograph collections
Kunsthandel P. de Boer -- Photograph collections