NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Museum of Art is winding up the city’s tricentennial with an exhibition of dozens of paintings collected by the man the city is named for: Philippe II, Duke of Orleans. The Orleans Collection displays were the first blockbuster art exhibits, drawing crowds for months and exposing a wider public to great art, Schmid said. A painting bought in 1999 by that museum, illustrating a story about Alexander the Great, is among those lent for the New Orleans exhibit. The climax of the New Orleans exhibit, Schmid said, is a Rembrandt painting called The Mill, lent by the National Gallery of Art in Washington. “He’s acquiring some of these really, really, really prestige collections.

Source: National Post October 25, 2018 16:41 UTC