Old masters, new world: America's raid on Europe's great pictures, 1880-World War I

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part 1. The Collectors

I. "American Citizen ... Patron of Art": Henry Gurdon Marquand and van Dyck's Portrait of James Stuart

II. "C'est Mon Plaisir": Isabella Stewart Gardner, Bernard Berenson, Otto Gutekunst, and Titian's Europa

III. "Mr. Morgan Still Seems to Be Going on His Devouring Way": J. Pierpont Morgan, Raphael's Colonna Madonna, Gainsborough's Georgiana, Reynolds's Lady Elizabeth Delme, and Lawrence's Elizabeth Farren

IV. "Greco's Merit Is That He Was Two Centuries Ahead of His Time": Mary Cassatt, Harry and Louisine Havemeyer, Spain, and El Greco

V. "A Picture for a Big Price": Henry Clay Frick, Charles Carstairs, Otto Gutekunst, and the Ilchester Rembrandt

Part 2. The Painting Boom

VI. "Octopus and Wrecker Duveen": Joseph Duveen Enters the Old Master Market

VII. "Highest Prizes of the Game of Civilization": Holbein's Christina of Denmark, Rembrandt's Polish Rider, Velazquez's Philip IV, Three Vermeers, and Record Prices

VIII. "Thanks Not in [the] Market at Present": Bellini's St. Francis and Falling Prices

Part 3. The Great War and the Picture Market

IX. "If This War Goes On, Many Things Will Be for Sale": Old Master Spoils

X. The Feast of the Gods: Bellini and Titian's Masterpiece Comes on the Market

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index