[Letter from Valentiner]
Creation: 1948-07-11
In this 1948 letter, art critic and historian Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner describes a painting depicted in one of the Contini photographs and attributes the work to Rembrandt van Rijn. This kind of correspondence was valuable to scholars as they grew in their understanding of the artwork and artists represented in collection. With the help of connoisseurs such as Valentiner, scholars working on the project were able to better differentiate original masterpieces from copies of the same work.
Title
[Letter from Valentiner]
Contributor
Date
Creation: 1948-07-11
Description
In this 1948 letter, art critic and historian Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner describes a painting depicted in one of the Contini photographs and attributes the work to Rembrandt van Rijn. This kind of correspondence was valuable to scholars as they grew in their understanding of the artwork and artists represented in collection. With the help of connoisseurs such as Valentiner, scholars working on the project were able to better differentiate original masterpieces from copies of the same work.
Rights
Copyright; use considered fair according to the ARL Code of Best Practices in Fair Use
Format
Letters (correspondence)
Source
MSS0088, Contini-Volterra Photographic Archive, Box 321
Collection
Citation
“[Letter from Valentiner],” Gallery, accessed July 7, 2022, https://gallery.library.vanderbilt.edu/items/show/927.