Kárpáti Zoltán - Liptay Éva - Varga Ágota szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 101. (Budapest, 2004)
ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - A 2004. ÉV - PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS - ÁLLANDÓ KIÁLLÍTÁSOK - ILDIKÓ EMBER, ESZTER FABRY, AND ANNAMÁRIA GOSZTOLA: New Permanent Exhibition of the Old Masters' Gallery
56. A view of the Dutch exhibition name of Jan Miense Molenaer. 9 Among still lifes, only the so-called monochromatic banquet pieces from Haarlem are presented here, e.g., the works of Pieter Claesz. and Willem Claesz. Heda. The next room is a place of the dimensions of a cabinet, in which we have fashioned a resting place, with decorative bird-pieces and floral still lifes. Melchior de Hondecoeter and Jan Weenix are the best known of the masters on display here. The second section of the exhibition begins with hall XXVIII, presenting works belonging to the Rembrandt School. Albeit the Rembrandt Research Project has questioned all of the pictures in Budapest attributed to the master, we have several works by his students and followers, through which we can demonstrate the manifold impact of this giant of painting. The list commences with his master in Amsterdam, Pieter Lastman, and the so-called pre-Rembrandtists, continues with his colleague during his years in Leiden, Jan Lievens, and then with his pupils and followers, Gerard Dou, Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout, Nicolaes Maes, Aert de Gelder and Jan Victors, to mention only the most important of them. Hall XXIX, opening from here, presents the tendencies accomplished at the height of the century in the various genres. The central axis is formed by two portraits of prominent importance: Bartholomeus van der Heist's representative Portrait of Sea Captain Gideon de Wildt from 1657, faced by Aelbert Cuyp's large-scale Portrait of a Family before a Rhine Town. The pieces of the highest quality in the collection date from this period: Pieter Saenredam's ethereally pure interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Haarlem, with its architecture following classical ideals; Jacob van Ruisdael's early Forest Lake, preceding the romantic interpretation of nature of this great landscape painter; Aert van der Neer's enigmatic nocturnes; one of Aelbert Cuyp's most beautiful, Waterside Landscape with Cows; Pieter de Hooch's Woman Reading a Letter of intimate 9 In his portrait volume of the upcoming scholarly catalogue of the Budapest collection, Rudi Ekkart will publish this discovery, but he was kind enough to allow that the painting already appear in this new exhibition under Molenaer's name.
