ISBN 978-1-60606-493-1

Jan Steen's The Drawing Lesson is one of the finest and most intriguing examples of the art of the Netherlands in its Golden Age

and historical contexts of his art

Their pictorial language is stylized and primarily symbolic

both man-made and natural

The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum antiquity ISBN 978-1-60606-493-1Paul Martineau With an essay by Eugenia Parry and an introduction by Weston Naef Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. (19211987) amassed an extraordinary collection of 26,000 photographs between 1973 and 1984, recognizing that photography was an undervalued art form on which he might have a profound impact as a collector. He was mainly attracted to photographs that stimulated his imagination, and his taste ran toward the idiosyncraticimages that surprised him