Walter Liedtke first came to the Department of Paintings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979 on a Mellon Fellowship to write what became his award-winning book, The Royal Horse and Rider: Painting, Sculpture and Horsemanship 1500–1800, published in 1989. When I arrived in the department two years later as a Chester Dale Research … Continue reading Thomas de Keyser’s Equestrian Portrait of Pieter Schout