Baron Etienne-Edmond-Martin de Beurnonville

Etienne-Edmond-Martin, baron de Beurnonville, was born in Paris to General Etienne Martin de Beurnonville (1789-1879), who had served under Napoleon I.   Baron de Beurnonville accumulated a large art collection comprising more than 1,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, objects d’art and furniture.   He collected predominantly Dutch and Flemish seventeenth century paintings as well as early Netherlandish and German pictures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. His collection was regarded as one of the most distinguished European assemblages of Dutch paintings formed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It included works by or attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn, Aelbert Cuyp, Meindert Hobbema, Peter Paul Rubens, Hans Memling and Jan van Eyck among others. The collection was dispersed from 1872 until after his death in 1906.   Adolphe Schloss acquired three paintings from the Beurnonville collection; one by Dutch painter Gerard Terborch, L’intéressant message (Schloss German no. 215/ French no. 256); Mythologische Szene (Triton on a Dolphin) attributed to the School of Rubens (Schloss German no. 188/ French no. 315); and Portrait of a Woman Painter by Dutch artist Gabriel Metsu, which Schloss sold prior to his death in 1910 and is currently at the Lakenhal Museum in Leiden.

Link: https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/record?query=Beurnonville&start=0 Accessed 4 June 2021.