The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Paintings:

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In this volume, forty-two paintings collected by Robert Lehman and his father, Philip, are discussed at length in light of recent technical and art historical research. Reproduced in full colour, the works catalogued here are Petrus Christus's "Goldsmith in His Shop" of 1449, famous as one of the first Northern European paintings to depict everyday life, and Hans Memling's "Portrait of a Young Man" (circa 1475-80), in which the sitter is posed before a landscape, a formula that had lasting repercussions in Italian as well as Northern art. Also included is Memling's "Annunciation", and well-known paintings by Simon Marmion, Jean Hey, Gerard David, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Younger, Hans Holbein, El Greco, George Romney and Sir Henry Raeburn, among others.

The late Charles Sterling was Curator, Musee du Louvre, and Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Maryan W. Ainsworth is Senior Research Fellow, Paintings Conservation Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Charles Talbot is Alice Pratt Brown Distinguished Professor of Art History, Trinity University, San Antonio. Martha Wolff is Curator of European Painting Before 1750, Art Institute of Chicago. Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann is John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Jonathan Brown is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. John Hayes was formerly Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Talbot and his pictures stand out in long-overdue relief. -- Ben Lifson Art on Paper