Benjamin Altman

Benjamin Altman , foi un empresariu d'Estaos Xuníos de Nueva York. Foi conocíu por haber creáu la compañía B. Altman en 1865, y tamién por ser un gran amigu y mecenes del arte , sobro especialmente del pintor Rembrandt. Altman llegó a tener una importante coleición de pintures que donó al Muséu Metropolitanu d'Arte de Nueva York.

 Biografía 
Benjamin Altman venía de una familia de xudíos de Baviera qu'emigraron a América en 1835 y onde abrieron una pequeña tienda en Attorney Street de la ciudá de Nueva York. Dempués de trabayar na tienda de mercaderías del so padre, Altman establecerse pola so cuenta. En 1877, abrió una gran tienda en Sesta Avinguda, conocida como'l «Palaciu del Comerciu»" pola so arquiteutura luxosa, la tienda d'Altman foi una de les primeres en tener ropa pa distintes edaes i en distintes seiciones.Abrams, Jeanne. "Benjamin Altman." A: Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 2, edited by William J. Hausman. German Historical Institute. Last modified 14 de payares de 2013.

Utilizó la so riqueza pa financiar diverses iniciatives na so ciudá natal. Poco primero del so fallecimientu creó la Fundación Altman, una organización benéfica pa dar soporte a les instituciones educatives de la ciudá de Nueva York.

Benjamin Altman era un gran coleicionista de pintures principalmente de Rembrandt y porzolanes orientales . A la so muerte, donó la coleición al Muséu Metropolitanu d'Arte.

 Pintures nel legáu de Benjamin Altman, 1913 
ImaxeTítuluArtistaFechaNº de inventarriourl del Museu center|128px Man with a Steel Gorget anonymous 1648 14.40.601 MET center|128px Yonker Ramp and his sweetheart Frans Hals 1623 14.40.602 MET center|128px Old Woman in an Armchair Jacob Adriaensz Backer 1640 14.40.603 MET center|128px The Fingernail Test Frans HalsJudith Leyster 1626 14.40.604 MET center|128px Shrovetide Revellers Frans Hals 1616 14.40.605 MET center|128px Saint Justina of Padua Bartolomeo Montagna  14.40.606 MET center|128px Self-Portrait Gerrit Dou 1665 14.40.607 MET center|128px Rembrandt's Son Titus anonymousRembrandt 1680s 14.40.608 MET center|128px Old Woman Cutting Her Nails anonymousRembrandt 1650s 14.40.609 MET center|128px Pilate Washing His Hands anonymousRembrandt 1660s 14.40.610 MET center|128px A Girl Asleep Johannes Vermeer 1657 14.40.611 MET center|128px Young Woman Peeling Apples Nicolaes Maes 1655 14.40.612 MET center|128px Interior with a Young Couple Pieter de Hooch 1662 14.40.613 MET center|128px Entrance to a Village Meindert Hobbema 1690s 14.40.614 MET center|128px Portrait of a Woman, Called the Marchesa Durazzo Anthony van Dyck  14.40.615 MET center|128px Young Herdsmen with Cows Aelbert Cuyp  14.40.616 MET center|128px A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier Gerard ter Borch  14.40.617 MET center|128px Self portrait Rembrandt 1660 14.40.618 MET center|128px Lucas van Uffel (died 1637) Anthony van Dyck 1624s 14.40.619 MET center|128px Portrait of a man with gloves in hand Rembrandt 1648 14.40.620 MET center|128px Man with a Magnifying Glass Rembrandt 1660s 14.40.621 MET center|128px Woman with a Pink Rembrandt 1660s 14.40.622 MET center|128px Wheat Fields Jacob van Ruisdael 1670 14.40.623 MET center|128px Portrait of a Man ("The Auctioneer") anonymousRembrandt 1658 14.40.624 MET center|128px Portrait of a Woman Rembrandt 1633 14.40.625 MET center|128px Portrait of Maria Portinari Hans Memling 1470 14.40.626–27 MET center|128px The Crucifixion Fra Angelico  14.40.628 MET center|128px Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace anonymous 1654 14.40.629 MET center|128px Ulrich Fugger (1490–1525) Hans Maler 1525 14.40.630 MET center|128px The Supper at Emmaus Diego Velázquez  14.40.631 MET center|128px Virgin and Child with Angels Bernard van Orley  14.40.632 MET center|128px Virgin and Child with Saint Anne Albrecht Dürer 1519 14.40.633 MET center|128px Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine Hans Memling 1479 14.40.634 MET center|128px Madonna and Child with Angels anonymous 1500s 14.40.635 MET center|128px Christ Taking Leave of His Mother Gerard David  14.40.636 MET center|128px Lady Lee (Margaret Wyatt, born about 1509) anonymous 1540s 14.40.637 MET center|128px Federigo Gonzaga (1500–1540) Francesco Francia 1510 14.40.638 MET center|128px Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain Diego Velázquez  14.40.639 MET center|128px Portrait of a Man Tiziano 1512 14.40.640 MET center|128px Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph and an Angel Raffaellino del Garbo  14.40.641 MET center|128px The Last Communion of Saint Jerome Sandro Botticelli 1495 14.40.642 MET center|128px The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen Andrea Mantegna 1495 14.40.643 MET center|128px Portrait of a Man Dieric Bouts 1470 14.40.644 MET center|128px Portrait of a Young Man Antonello da Messina  14.40.645 MET center|128px Lady Rich (Elizabeth Jenks, died 1558) anonymous 1540 14.40.646 MET center|128px Madonna and Child anonymous Verrocchio 1470 14.40.647 MET center|128px Portrait of an old man Hans Memling 1475 14.40.648 MET center|128px Portrait of a Young Man Cosimo Tura  14.40.649 MET center|128px Portrait of Cardinal Filippo Archinto Tiziano  14.40.650 MET center|128px Bathsheba at her Toilette Rembrandt 1643 14.40.651 MET center|128px Changing Pasture Anton Mauve  14.40.810 MET center|128px The Ferryman Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 1865s 14.40.811 MET center|128px Twilight Anton Mauve  14.40.812 MET center|128px A Pond in Picardy Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot  14.40.813 MET center|128px A Path among the Rocks Théodore Rousseau  14.40.814 MET center|128px The Banks of the Oise Charles-François Daubigny 1863 14.40.815 MET center|128px The Return to the Fold Anton Mauve  14.40.816 MET center|128px A Lane through the Trees Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot  14.40.817 MET center|128px A River Landscape with Storks Charles-François Daubigny 1864 14.40.818 MET center|128px The Edge of the Woods Narcisse-Virgile Díaz de la Peña 1872 14.40.819 MET

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