Dutch and Flemish Paintings: Portraits 1600–1800, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Vol. 1

This is the first volume in the Old Masters’ Gallery Catalogues series devoted to the remarkable collection of Dutch Old Master paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.

Written by Rudi Ekkart, a leading authority on seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish portraiture, the catalog examines 105 portraits dating from 1600 to 1800. The collection includes works by major artists such as Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals, Thomas de Keyser, and Bartholomeus van der Helst, alongside paintings by portraitists representing many of the principal centers of Dutch art.

More than a survey of the collection, the volume incorporates the results of recent scholarly research, including new attributions, newly identified sitters, and updated provenance information. It provides the first systematic study of this important group of paintings within the Budapest collection.

Published in English and Hungarian, this extensively researched catalogue raisonné is an important reference for collectors, scholars, and readers interested in Dutch and Flemish Old Master painting and the history of European portraiture.