The quality of the collection of Dutch drawings of the Golden Age is unrivalled anywhere in France; it provides a very complete overview of the art of drawing in the Northern Netherlands. At the centre of the collection are no less than twenty-one drawings by Rembrandt, an artist particularly close to Frits Lugt’s heart and one whose work he had studied in depth. As a collector, Lugt did not only favour Dutch artists of the seventeenth century, he also owned some important drawings from the century before (Maarten van Heemskerck, Lucas van Leyden, Hendrick Goltzius…).
The quality of the collection of Dutch drawings of the Golden Age is unrivalled anywhere in France; it provides a very complete overview of the art of drawing in the Northern Netherlands. At the centre of the collection are no less than twenty-one drawings by Rembrandt, an artist particularly close to Frits Lugt’s heart and one whose work he had studied in depth. As a collector, Lugt did not only favour Dutch artists of the seventeenth century, he also owned some important drawings from the century before (Maarten van Heemskerck, Lucas van Leyden, Hendrick Goltzius…).