In His Milieu

Essays on Netherlandish Art in Memory of John Michael Montias

Amy Golahny, Mia Mochizuki, Lisa Vergara

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040791349
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Comparative Politics

Collected in memory of the Vermeer scholar and Yale economist J. Michael Montias, these essays take into account the latest trends in the field and provide new data on a wide range of topics in Netherlandish art. Themes include the reception of paintings and architecture; art collecting as interpreted through inventories and other documents that reveal modes of display; relationships between patrons and painters; recently found or attributed works of art; artists as teachers; and the art market. Taken together, these focused studies offer fresh perspectives on the historical appreciation and evaluation of art. Drawing upon J.M. Montias' contribution to art history, these 32 essays present new analyses, attributions, and documents on Netherlandish art and material culture – including the work of Vermeer, Rubens, Rembrandt, van Eyck and others – by internationally known scholars of art history and the economics of art.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• In Memoriam John Michael Montias (1928-2005)
• Four Remembrances
• Art-Historical Publications by John Michael Montias
• Two Forms of Knowledge: Invention and Production in Thomas de Keyser’s Portrait of a Young Silversmith, Sijmon Valckenaer
• The Case of Han van Meegeren’s Fake Vermeer Supper at Emmaus Reconsidered
• Prices of Northern Netherlandish Paintings in the Seventeenth Century
• The Mysterious Landscape Painter Govert Janszn called Mijnheer (1577-c.1619)
• Jacob Ochtervelt’s Rotterdam Patron
• Did Rembrandt Travel to England?
• The Antwerp-Mechelen Production and Export Complex
• Thoughts on the Market for Rembrandt’s Portrait Etchings
• If the Shoe Fits: Courtship, Sex, and Society in an Unusual Painting by Gonzales Coques
• A Sophonisba by Pieter Lastman?
• Poelenburch’s Garden: Art, Flowers, Networks, and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Holland
• Tournai’s Renaissance Jubé: Art as Instrument of Empowerment
• Vermeer and His Thematic Use of Perspective
• The Face in the Landscape: A Puzzling Print by Matthäus Merian the Elder
• Murant and His Milieu: A Biography of Emanuel Murant, the “Rustic Forerunner” of Jan van der Heyden
• Rubens as a Teacher: “He may teach his art to his students and others to his liking”
• Abraham van Dijck (1635?—1680), a Dordrecht Painter in the Shadow of Rembrandt
• Joachim/Peter Wtewael, Father/Son, Master/Pupil
• At Home with the Ten Commandments: Domestic Text Paintings in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
• The Transfer and Reception of Dutch Art in the Baltic Area during the Eighteenth Century: The Case of the Hamburg Dealer Gerhard Morrell
• Sleeping Caps, City Views, and State Funerals: Privileges for Prints in the Dutch Republic, 1593-1650
• Piety and Splendor: The Art Collection of Antwerp Burgomaster Adriaan Hertsen
• Pictorial Archives: “Jordaans” in Delft
• Visiting Vermeer: Performing Civility
• The Montias Database: Inventories of Amsterdam Art Collections
• Some Questions Concerning Inventory Research
• Marketing the Dutch Past: The Lucas van Leyden Revival around 1600
• “Les regards dards”: Werner van den Valckert’s Venus and Cupid
• The School of Cornelis van Poelenburch
• From Art to Politics: The Paintings of Jean de Warignies, Lord of Blainville (c. 1581-1628)
• Van Eyck Out of Focus
• Landscape’s Pleasures: The Gifted Drawing in the Seventeenth Century