Northern European Art in the Norton Simon Museum

"Northern European Art in the Norton Simon Museum celebrates the institution's holdings of Dutch, Flemish, Early Netherlandish, and German paintings from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. This volume illuminates ninety-five extraordinary paintings and works on paper across a range of genres, from portraiture and landscape to still life and religious themes. An introductory essay by Carol Togneri, former Chief Curator at the Norton Simon Museum, addresses Simon's ambition and foresight as a collector and recounts some of his most public and dramatic acquisitions. The catalogue's entries-authored by curator and provenance researcher Amy Walsh, with technical reports by conservator Rosamond Westmoreland and contributions from a number of specialists in the field-offer insights into the historical context, ownership trajectories, and conservation assessment of these objects"--