Rothschild Masterpieces
Pierre Reymond was a French painter and enameler.
Reymond ran a large workshop in Limoges, where one of his apprentices was Pierre Court. He specialized in tableware decorated with mythological scenes, including cups, plates, bowls and platters.
Pierre Reymond was a French painter and enameler.
Reymond ran a large workshop in Limoges, where one of his apprentices was Pierre Court. He specialized in tableware decorated with mythological scenes, including cups, plates, bowls and platters.
Gerard Dou was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his trompe-l'œil "niche" paintings and candlelit night-scenes with strong chiaroscuro. He was a student of Rembrandt.
Aelbert Jacobsz. Cuyp was a Dutch Baroque painter, graphic artist and printmaker.
Aelbert is the successor of a dynasty of painters from Dordrecht. He was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age. A pupil of his father, the painter Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594-1651), he is known primarily for his landscapes of the Dutch countryside in the light of early morning or late evening. But Aelbert Cuyp also painted canvases on biblical, mythological, and historical themes, still lifes, and portraits. The Italian style is evident in his works.
