Catalogue of the pictures, drawings, etchings and objects of art . THE HAGUE. MOUTON & U ^0(o^.o-\- V D V ^ PREFACE. I do not fear being accused of an undue appreciationof the Mesdag-Museum, when, in an artistic sense, Iclaim it to be the most interesting and at the same timethe most instructive Gallery of modern art to be foundin Europe or anywhere else. Edmond de Goncourt, himself a most fastidious con-noisseur and collector^ once said: ,,Chez un individu quia le gout de l^art, ce gout nest pas limite seulement auxtableaux; il a le gout dune porcelaine, dune ciselure, denHmporte quo
Catalogue of the pictures, drawings, etchings and objects of art . THE HAGUE. MOUTON & U ^0(o^.o-\- V D V ^ PREFACE. I do not fear being accused of an undue appreciationof the Mesdag-Museum, when, in an artistic sense, Iclaim it to be the most interesting and at the same timethe most instructive Gallery of modern art to be foundin Europe or anywhere else. Edmond de Goncourt, himself a most fastidious con-noisseur and collector^ once said: ,,Chez un individu quia le gout de l^art, ce gout nest pas limite seulement auxtableaux; il a le gout dune porcelaine, dune ciselure, denHmporte quoi, qui est de rart. And he was right: aperson endowed with the true artistic temperament willvalue, at its just worth, every manifestation of thebeautiful. And this explains why Mr. and Mrs. Mesdag-van Houten, whilst buying pictures and drawings solelyfor their own pleasure, without any thought whateverof forming a collection which would afterwards becomea National Museum, at the same time gathered togethera variety of objects belonging to other branches of
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