CATALOGUE of the Exhibited at the Kleinber ger Galleries n Y I New ork , 709 Fifth Avenue Novemb er-De ember 1 c , 913 GALLERIES Esta blished 1848 ’ 9 Rue de I Echelle 709 Fifth Avenue 228 4 6 P R E F A C E H IS Catalog ue is an extract of the Ca ta lo de L a me wr tten b D r g i y . Wilhelm B ode D rector- ener l , i G a of the Kaiser- Friedrich- Museum in Berlin and ubl shed b Jul us Bar Berl n p i y i d, i . The atalo ue de Luxe th 8 Co er late C g , wi 7 pp p en rav n s l m ted to 200 co es is for sale at the g i g , i i pi , le nber er aller es New York and Par s and F . K i g G i , i , Berl n Julius Bard i . The P a inting s described in this Ca ta log u e a re leinber er alleries r a t a l a t t e F . K G fo p riv e s e h g , obta in d where p rices and p articula rs can be e . The m easurements of the painting s are g iven The terms without frames and in centim etres. “ ” “ ” rig ht and left are to be understood from the ’ e a or o nt of e sp ct t s p i vi w . The entire Collection will be on view between November 24th and D ecember 15th at the F . K leinber er a ll n e A n g G er ies, 709 Fifth Ave u . admission fee will be charg ed of 50 cents m 1 m m ro 0 a to 2 . f . p and rom 2 m to 6 m f p . p . the proceeds of which shall be for the benefit of the “ New York Association for Im proving the Condi ” “ n of the Poor and the Montefiore H om e tio , a H ospital for Chronic I nvalids and Country Sanitar n m e ium for Co su ptiv s. F Kle n . i berg er m N ew Y ork , N ove b er 1913 seem to anyone who turns over the pag es of this catalogue and g lances at the e as the o or who plat s , if c llect called this g allery into being started out with the happy idea of g etting tog ether masterp ieces of all the foremost artists of the Dutch and Flemish S oo t he rs e s o e r re e er ch ls , and hat pu u d thi bj ct with a n g y As m er of err A and ext raordinary success . a att fact , H ug ust B n as mo o e o n his de idder beg a st c ll ct rs have beg u , and if t g allery almost g i v es the impression of a public collection m e on r is o to the r ms e ad fixed p inciples , this wing ci cu tanc t his re e o for art o e of o e the that wi h p dil cti n and l v c ll cting , owner a tta ined by deg rees to a full appreciation of works of i art , and that s nce that time be spared no pains or expense to rid ol e o of r m o his c l cti n what was spurious o edi cre , and em l to enr fir syst atical y ich it with st class pictures . As m one ov we enti d ab e , Herr de B idder beg an in the s m as the re m o of a e way g at aj rity collectors , viz : with mo n r was der pictu es ; and this natural , as contemporary o a e to mo a i w rks pp al us st re d ly . At the same tim e be m n d n a ifeste his i dependence of taste by his choice of artists o he r se r and the w rks which u cha d f om them . In Frankfort p , the e s e e of his o rs he chi f c n lab u , came into contact with the es n r of F n or C o r o a nd b t pai te s the ra kf t and r nbe g sch ols , m e to se r o or s A anag d cu e ch ice w k by nton Burg er , A o S re er, Pe er Be r and C r d lf ch y t cke a l M org enstern . Frequent and occas ionally p rolong ed visits to Munich were the means of his becoming acquainted with artists resident ere om er as th , with wh lat in the case too of the Frankfort r i s he e ere o oser erso re e m a t st nt d int cl p nal lations . W ay me o es e W m D ez Le nti n p cially ilhel i , ubach and Ludwig ' rr B r w Lofltz . He de idde as thus enabled to bring tog ether a collection of works by these and several other contemporary and ea rlier artists which may still be seen in his Frankfort Germ ma res idence , and which any public g allery in any y well envy him . At the same time an old fancy was revived and an ea rly n M n A n i . B n love reki dled u ich elg ia by birth , Herr de B idder had been broug ht up in his native town of Antwerp am ong the masterp ieces of Flemish and ea rlier Netherland s the M Pinacothek h w artist , and in unich e sa and admi red or s of ese r old m the g lorious w k th g and asters . His enthusias m for earlier art received a further impetus from dis ting uis hed om be sso e who artists with wh a ciat d , and were not only admirers of the old mas ters but also ardent collecto rs of i rre him on to or s early works of a rt . Th s spu d eff t in the same firs e e not W o o s ona direction , at t t ntativ ly and ith ut cca i l h we all o e er e e as to be o . blunders , but kn w that xp i nc b ug ht When however about twenty years ag o the French imp res rm n be o e s e for mo er sionism reached Ge a y , c nceiv d a dista t d n rom e e or o fi e m l e s ve p ainting , and f h nc f th c n n d hi se f xclu i ly s s rs to collecting old masters . Bu ines tou which took Herr er to Amer more re e to Lo o de B idd ica , and f qu ntly nd n and s e him o or of the re s res Pari , gav an pp tunity studying t a u the or ossesses ese m s er e es tem which w ld p in th a t pi c , and sys ’ ll to oo o art- e ers o ms atica y l k ab ut in d al sh ps , auction roo , H he m l f e ma be etc . ow availed hi se f o these opportuniti s y n h r e on h a re see by a g lance at t e pictu es in this coll cti , w ich here reproduced in as completely faithful facs imile as has been found possible . The first impression of this catalog ue was made during the e- me of de B r o or e ore his lif ti Herr idde , but nly sh tly b f m n e on M a 13th 191 1 the e la e ted and sudd n death , y , at ag - of sev enty four . That he had silently a nd zealous ly bee n e o m se to art r of o w e is te d v ting hi lf , as a labou l ve , and ith xqu i taste and rare understanding had been making a collection of the m ost noteworthy D utch and Flemish artists of the . C n r mo e o of XVII e tu y , such as is al st b y nd the power a the en ow to few private individual at pres t day , was kn n r e outside his family ci cl . Since the demise of Herr de B idder the collection has passed from the p eaceful villa at Sch onberg to the Stadel Frankfort-ou- M as o r Institute in ain a l an , in o der that by ma be more es this means it y acc sible to the public . 1913 Berlin , July W I L H E L M BO D E D DT AN BYN o a utch School , REMBRA N V , wh se sw y may be compa red with that of Velasquez over the S an S m am on of v p ish chool , us t be the biti e ery o o w - a - a n two c llect r , especially no d ys whe these la f n a rtists occupy a foremost p ce o i terest .