In the Louvre opened an exhibition of works by Rembrandt and the artists of his era - Gerard Dou, Frans van Mieris, Jan Steen and Jan Vermeer - from the private collection of Thomas Kaplan.
New York businessman Thomas Kaplan is the owner of almost one-third of privately owned paintings by Rembrandt: since 2005 it has acquired 11 works by the artist. Total in the world there are about 35 Rembrandt paintings belonging to private collectors (figure inaccuracy related to questions of attribution). Kaplan calls itself the largest private collector of Rembrandt "in the last couple of hundred years."
After the Louvre exhibition much more large-scale exhibition will travel to Shanghai, Beijing and Abu Dhabi. In an interview with The Art Newspaper collector explained that the exhibition has a symbolic meaning: "Now we need to build bridges between different cultures, not to burn them. Making existing walls below, rather than build new ones. "
Thomas Kaplan believes that "Leiden Collection" has international significance: "We, Americans collectors can use a Dutch art at the exhibition, which begins its work in the French museum, to build bridges between the West and China. And then, in the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, the picture will be very close to Mosul and Palmyra. "
Masterpieces "Collection of Leiden." The Epoch of Rembrandt
Paris, Louvre, Feb. 22 - May 22, 2017