American Register, Paris, March 27, 18^7.
A magnificent work of art, at which no less a connoisseur than Mr. Charles Scdelmeyer, the well-known dealer and expert in art, in collaboration with Direc- tor Bode, has been working for fully fifteen years, has at last been completed. It is the richly illustrated edition in eight large volumes of “ L’CEuvre Complet de Rembrandt, ” a veritable literary and artistic monument to the great Dutch master, all of whose works, scattered throughout the world, have here been reproduced in heliogravure, with full descriptive text. The first volume has made its appearance, and, as might well have been foreseen, does great credit to the enterprising editor as well as to France.
The Collector, New York, April i 5 , 1897.
Nothing has yet been done, either in honour of any single artist or for the recording of his works, to even approach « The Complete Work of Rembrandt » which is published by M. Sedelmeyer, of Paris.... It comes in the shape of a fat folio, of the most sumptuous form of artistic embellishment and typography, and, entirely apart from its magnificence as an art work, is a book of reference no true collector can fail to appreciate.
The Art Amateur, New York, December, 1897.
The Complete Work of Rembrandt, which Dr. Bode has spent fifteen years in preparing, and of which Mr. Sedelmeyer has already issued the first two volumes in truly magnificent style, will reproduce every known painting by the master, one hundred and fifty of them never before published.
The Art Amateur, New York, September, 1899.
We have already spoken in terms of the highest praise of the first two volumes of this magnificent work. The third is, if possible, still more remarkable. In it, Dr. Bode, as biographer, has reached one of the most interesting periods of Rem- brandt’s artistic career, that immediately succeeding his marriage, and leads with a series of biblical and mythological compositions — and the portraits and studies connected with them — including some of the painter's acknowledged masterpieces.
We need rot expatiate on the importance of Dr. Bode’s « Rembrandt » to collectors. It promises to be the first really adequate representation of a great painter’s work. Mr. Sedelmeyer's courage, taste, and judgment cannot be too liberally acknowledged. lie is producing a monograph, which will be of inestimable advantage to all serious students of art, and one which we are entitled to hope will be accepted as a standard for other publications of the kind. It would certainly be difficult to imagine anything more perfect than the way in which the work, literary, artistic, and mechanical, has, thus far, been done. The text is, in its completeness and reliability, worthy of the great artist to which it is devoted, and the illustrations, reproduced by the heliogravure process, are worthy of the text.
