Indelibly Etched: Svetlana Alpers on "Rembrandt's journey".(From The Vault)(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

THIS OCTOBER, THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, will present an exhibition of some one hundred fifty of the finest examples of Rembrandt's etchings together with about twenty paintings and thirty drawings which are similar to etchings ill craftsmanship and scale. The idea for "Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher" originated with Clifford S.

Ackley, chair of the MFA's Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and a leading connoisseur of Rembrandt etchings. The list of loans promised by public and private collections from around the world is astonishing. All ...

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