Page:Charles Sedelmayer - Catalog of 100 paintings - illustratedcata04gallgoog.djvu/428

 The Collector

New-York, April i 5, 1897.

Nothing has yet been done, either in honour of any single artist or for the recording of his works, to even approach « The Complete Work of Rembrandt » which is published by M. Sedelmeyer, of Paris.... It comes in the shape of a fat folio, of the most sumptuous form of artistic embellishment and typography, and, entirely apart from its magnificence as an art work, is a book of reference no true collector can fail to appreciate.

The Art Amateur, New- York, September, 1899.

We have already spoken in terms of the highest praise of the first two volumes of this magnificent work. The third is, if possible, still more remarkable. In it, Dr. Bode, as biographer, has reached one of the most interesting periods of Rem- brandt's artistic career, that immediately succeeding his marriage, and leads with a series of biblical aud mythological compositions — and the portraits and studies connected with them — including some of the painter's acknowledged master- pieces.

We need not expatiate on the importance of Dr. Bode’s « Rembrandt » to col- lectors. It promises to be the first really adequate representation of a great painter's work. Mr. Sedelmeyer's courage, taste, and judgment cannot be too liberally acknowledged. He is producing a monograph, which will be of inestimable advant- age to all serious students of art, and one which we are entitled to hope will be accepted as a standard for other publications of the kind. It would certainly be difficult to imagine anything more perfect than the way in which the work, literary, artistic, and mechanical, has, thus far, been done. The text is, in its completeness and reliability, worthy of the great artist to which it is devoted, and the illustrations, reproduced by the heliogravure process, arc worthy of the text.

The Art Amateur, June, 1900,

Of this great work, issued in magnilicient style by Mr. Sedelmeyer, the fourth volume, dealing with one of the most important periods of the artist's life, that included between the dates 1637-40, has just been issued. As in the other volumes, previously reviewed, the reproductions iuclude every picture belonging te the period under consideration. It will take four more volumes and a supplement to finish the work, making it the most extended and the most complete literary and artistic monument ever built up to the fame of any painter.