Caravaggio-Inspired Dutch Masterpiece Acquired for Fitzwilliam Museum
October 28, 2010 by All Art News
Filed under Museums & Galleries
LONDON.- The Art Fund has helped the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge enrich its world-class collection with a Caravaggio-inspired Dutch oil on canvas. Young woman tuning a lute (1626-7) by Hendrik ter Brugghen, is now on public display within the Fitzwilliam’s fine collection of Dutch paintings. The Art Fund gave £225,000 to make the acquisition possible, alongside the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund which gave £50,000. Hendrik ter Brugghen, Young woman tuning a lute (1626-7) This is the Museum’s first acquisition of a [...]