Author: RIDDER, AUGUST DE. [Collection]. Bode, Wilhelm von.
Title: Die Gemäldegalerie des Herrn A. de Ridder in seiner Villa zu Schönberg bei Cronberg im Taunus.
Description: Berlin, Julius Bard, 1910. 44 pp. [13] monochrome collotype text-ills & [66] monochrome plts (photogravures). Orig. publisher's quarter red leather, spine raised in compartments & gilt letered. Folio. - Edges of cover worn; spine rubbed. - Interior in very good condition.Rather rare catalogue of collection of August Cornelius de Ridder (May 4, 1837 in Antwerp - May 13, 1911 in Paris), who was a Belgian-German merchant and art collector. He was related to the French archaeologist André de Ridder. The collection consisted of paintings by, amongst others, the Dutch and Flemish painters Albert Cuyp, Adriaen van Ostade, Peter Paul Rubens, Meindert Hobbema, Pieter de Hooch, Gabriël Metsu and Jan Steen. - - This catalogue was commissioned by August de Ridder and printed in a numbered edition of 100 copies (nr. 63).

Keywords: Dutch Art Nederlandse kunst