Photos: Renovation of the MFA’s Koch Gallery
The William I. Koch Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston was renovated and rehung this summer. The room now has red damask covering the formerly bare marble walls, rail guards to protect the art, a new display of silver pieces, and a reorganization of the paintings. The room now seems "more focused."
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The Koch gallery displays Hanoverian silver from the MFA's holdings, paintings, and four 17th-century tapestries from the Palazzo Barberini in Rome.
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The "Allegory of Man's Choice between Virtue and Vice" by Frans Francken II, about 1635
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"Boar Hunt" by Frans Snyders, 1625
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A wine pot by Friedrich Kettwyck (active in 1643-1670, is one of about 130 pieces of silver displayed in the gallery.
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"Saint Catherine of Alexandria at Prayer" byTitian, about 1488.
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"Isabella, Lady de La Warr" by Anthony van Dyck, about 1638, is a newly installed piece in the Koch gallery. Until recently, the painting was in storage, badly in need of care, at the MFA.
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Many were involved in the year-long restoration of "Isabella, Lady de La Warr."
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Rhona MacBeth, the Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo Conservator of Paintings and Head of Paintings Conservation, makes final adjustments to the restoration.
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"Isabella, Lady de La Warr," receiving final restoration touches, is one of 40 paintings in the Koch gallery.
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