Dutch Painting of the Seventeenth Century in the Collection of the Rumyantsev Museum: On the History of Art Collecting in Prerevolutionary Moscow

Student: Zhitkova Daria

Educational Programme: History of Artistic Culture and the Art Market (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

Master's thesis is exploring the history of collectorship. The point of this research is to investigate the characteristic things about public and private collections of Dutch Seventeenth-century art in Moscow before 1917. Especially the Rumyantsev museum - the first museum of private collections in XIX century Moscow. The researcher tried to find paintings from this museum, that disappeared after the revolution. Most popular dutch painters for Russian collectors were Rembrandt and one species of landscape painting which is called Dutch Italianate. Key words. Moscow collectorship, Dutch seventeenth century painting, Rembrandt's school, dutch italianate, Rumyantsev Museum.

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