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Charles Sedelmeyer (1837–1925〔(Web page of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the Internet Archive, archived 7 March 2007 )〕) was an Austrian art dealer, collector, and publisher active in Paris from 1866, with premises at 6 rue de la Rochefoucauld. He is credited with popularising the Dutch artist Jan van Goyen in France.〔(Richard Green )〕 Sedelmeyer assessed the American market as important enough to send his Rubens ''Atalanta and Meleager'' from the Marlborough collection for exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the winter of 1886.〔The painting returned to Europe and eventually did come to the Metropolitan Museum: Margaretta Salinger, "Rubens's Atalanta and Meleager" ''The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin'', New Series, 3.1 (Summer, 1944):8-13) p. 13.〕 He bought and sold Mihaly Munkacsy's 1878 ''The Blind Milton Dictating Paradise Lost to his Daughters,'' and after doing so offered Munkácsy a ten-year contract, making that painter a wealthy man and a really established member of the Paris art world. Sedelmeyer wanted him to paint large-scale pictures which could be exhibited on their own. They decided that a subject taken from the Bible would be most suitable. In 1882 Munkácsy painted ''Christ before Pilate'' which was followed by ''Golgotha'' in 1884. The trilogy was completed by ''Ecce Homo'' in 1896. These huge paintings were taken on a tour and exhibited in many European cities and also in the US. All three were bought by American millionaire John Wanamaker.〔(David Morgan, ''Protestants and Pictures'' ); The ''Milton'' hangs in the New York Public Library.〕 A public dispute with Dr. Abraham Bredius over the attribution to Rembrandt of the ''Woman Taken in Adultery'' sold by Sedelmeyer to the Weber collection resulted in Sedelmeyer's justificatory pamphlet, 1912.〔"On The Woman Taken in Adultery of the Weber Collection " ''The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs'' 22 No. 119 (February 1913:287).〕 Sedelmeyer's collection was dispersed at a series of sales in Paris.〔Part 3, 3–5 June 1907.〕 He had five daughters. Emilie married the sculptor and art historian Stanislas Lami and Hermina married the Czech painter Václav Brožík. ==Works== *''Catalogue of the celebrated Collection of Paintings, by Modern and Old Masters, and of Water-Colours and Drawings, formed by M. E. Secretan, sold at Sedelmeyer's Galleries, Paris, July, 1889'' *Charles Sedelmeyer, ''Illustrated Catalogue of the Eighth Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French and English Schools'', Paris 1902 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Sedelmeyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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