Benjamin Altman

Benjamin Altman , foi un empresariu d'Estaos Xuníos de Nueva York. Foi conocíu por haber creáu la compañía B. Altman en 1865, y tamién por ser un gran amigu y mecenes del arte , sobro especialmente del pintor Rembrandt. Altman llegó a tener una importante coleición de pintures que donó al Muséu Metropolitanu d'Arte de Nueva York.

Biografía Benjamin Altman venía de una familia de xudíos de Baviera qu'emigraron a América en 1835 y onde abrieron una pequeña tienda en Attorney Street de la ciudá de Nueva York. Dempués de trabayar na tienda de mercaderías del so padre, Altman establecerse pola so cuenta. En 1877, abrió una gran tienda en Sesta Avinguda, conocida como'l «Palaciu del Comerciu»" pola so arquiteutura luxosa, la tienda d'Altman foi una de les primeres en tener ropa pa distintes edaes i en distintes seiciones.Abrams, Jeanne. "Benjamin Altman." A: Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 2, edited by William J. Hausman. German Historical Institute. Last modified 14 de payares de 2013.

Utilizó la so riqueza pa financiar diverses iniciatives na so ciudá natal. Poco primero del so fallecimientu creó la Fundación Altman, una organización benéfica pa dar soporte a les instituciones educatives de la ciudá de Nueva York.

Benjamin Altman era un gran coleicionista de pintures principalmente de Rembrandt y porzolanes orientales . A la so muerte, donó la coleición al Muséu Metropolitanu d'Arte.

Pintures nel legáu de Benjamin Altman, 1913 ImaxeTítuluArtistaFechaNº de inventarriourl del Museu Man with a Steel Gorget anonymous 1648 14.40.601 MET Yonker Ramp and his sweetheart Frans Hals 1623 14.40.602 MET Old Woman in an Armchair Jacob Adriaensz Backer 1640 14.40.603 MET The Fingernail Test Frans HalsJudith Leyster 1626 14.40.604 MET Shrovetide Revellers Frans Hals 1616 14.40.605 MET Saint Justina of Padua Bartolomeo Montagna 14.40.606 MET Self-Portrait Gerrit Dou 1665 14.40.607 MET Rembrandt's Son Titus anonymousRembrandt 1680s 14.40.608 MET Old Woman Cutting Her Nails anonymousRembrandt 1650s 14.40.609 MET Pilate Washing His Hands anonymousRembrandt 1660s 14.40.610 MET A Girl Asleep Johannes Vermeer 1657 14.40.611 MET Young Woman Peeling Apples Nicolaes Maes 1655 14.40.612 MET Interior with a Young Couple Pieter de Hooch 1662 14.40.613 MET Entrance to a Village Meindert Hobbema 1690s 14.40.614 MET Portrait of a Woman, Called the Marchesa Durazzo Anthony van Dyck 14.40.615 MET Young Herdsmen with Cows Aelbert Cuyp 14.40.616 MET A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier Gerard ter Borch 14.40.617 MET Self portrait Rembrandt 1660 14.40.618 MET Lucas van Uffel (died 1637) Anthony van Dyck 1624s 14.40.619 MET Portrait of a man with gloves in hand Rembrandt 1648 14.40.620 MET Man with a Magnifying Glass Rembrandt 1660s 14.40.621 MET Woman with a Pink Rembrandt 1660s 14.40.622 MET Wheat Fields Jacob van Ruisdael 1670 14.40.623 MET Portrait of a Man ("The Auctioneer") anonymousRembrandt 1658 14.40.624 MET Portrait of a Woman Rembrandt 1633 14.40.625 MET Portrait of Maria Portinari Hans Memling 1470 14.40.626–27 MET The Crucifixion Fra Angelico 14.40.628 MET Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace anonymous 1654 14.40.629 MET Ulrich Fugger (1490–1525) Hans Maler 1525 14.40.630 MET The Supper at Emmaus Diego Velázquez 14.40.631 MET Virgin and Child with Angels Bernard van Orley 14.40.632 MET Virgin and Child with Saint Anne Albrecht Dürer 1519 14.40.633 MET Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine Hans Memling 1479 14.40.634 MET Madonna and Child with Angels anonymous 1500s 14.40.635 MET Christ Taking Leave of His Mother Gerard David 14.40.636 MET Lady Lee (Margaret Wyatt, born about 1509) anonymous 1540s 14.40.637 MET Federigo Gonzaga (1500–1540) Francesco Francia 1510 14.40.638 MET Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain Diego Velázquez 14.40.639 MET Portrait of a Man Tiziano 1512 14.40.640 MET Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph and an Angel Raffaellino del Garbo 14.40.641 MET The Last Communion of Saint Jerome Sandro Botticelli 1495 14.40.642 MET The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen Andrea Mantegna 1495 14.40.643 MET Portrait of a Man Dieric Bouts 1470 14.40.644 MET Portrait of a Young Man Antonello da Messina 14.40.645 MET Lady Rich (Elizabeth Jenks, died 1558) anonymous 1540 14.40.646 MET Madonna and Child anonymous Verrocchio 1470 14.40.647 MET Portrait of an old man Hans Memling 1475 14.40.648 MET Portrait of a Young Man Cosimo Tura 14.40.649 MET Portrait of Cardinal Filippo Archinto Tiziano 14.40.650 MET Bathsheba at her Toilette Rembrandt 1643 14.40.651 MET Changing Pasture Anton Mauve 14.40.810 MET The Ferryman Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 1865s 14.40.811 MET Twilight Anton Mauve 14.40.812 MET A Pond in Picardy Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 14.40.813 MET A Path among the Rocks Théodore Rousseau 14.40.814 MET The Banks of the Oise Charles-François Daubigny 1863 14.40.815 MET The Return to the Fold Anton Mauve 14.40.816 MET A Lane through the Trees Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 14.40.817 MET A River Landscape with Storks Charles-François Daubigny 1864 14.40.818 MET The Edge of the Woods Narcisse-Virgile Díaz de la Peña 1872 14.40.819 MET

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