Art Lovers take note… Thar be riches in them there SoCal… This web site provides a virtual tour and guide for visiting the fourteen Rembrandt’s held by SoCal museums. The Getty has about a half dozen, but where are the others? Check out this sight to find out… Happy hunting (and viewing), my friends…
Rembrandt in Southern California
Source: www.rembrandtinsocal…
Virtual exhibition of paintings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn on view in five Southern California museums.
Southern California is home to the third-largest assemblage of Rembrandt paintings in the United States, with notable strength in works from the artist’s dynamic early career in Leiden and Amsterdam. Beginning with J. Paul Getty’s enthusiastic 1938 purchase of Portrait of Marten Looten (given to LACMA in 1953; no. 8 in the Virtual Exhibition), the paintings have been collected over the short span of 70 years and are today housed in five museums… [MORE]










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