Early Netherlandish Painting
Collection catalogues of fifteenth and sixteenth-century paintings
The collection of early Netherlandish paintings in the Rijksmuseum consists of 375 paintings from the Northern and Southern Netherlands, several of them from the fifteenth century, but most from the sixteenth.
About the project
The catalogue of Early Netherlandish Paintings by artists born before 1500 contains 164 paintings. With numerous highlights by artists as Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Lucas van Leyden, Jan Mostaert and Maarten van Heemskerck, this group gives a good overview of mainly Northern Netherlandish painting in the late fifteenth and above all the early decades of the sixteenth century. The sixteenth-century paintings offer not only such Northern Netherlandish highlights as works by Hendrick Goltzius and Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem but also works from the Southern Netherlands by such artists as the Brunswick Monogrammist, Cornelis Massijs, Anthonis Mor, Pieter Aertsen and Joachim Beuckelaer.
Aims of the project
The remaining paintings by artists born between 1500 and 1570 will be studied in the coming years. The art-historical research will cover iconography, biography and provenance. The paintings will also be examined technically with the aid of our conservators.
Related publications
The collection catalogue of sixteenth-century paintings will be published online.
staff
Dr. Matthias Ubl
m.ubl@rijksmuseum.nl
Curator of Early Netherlandish and German Painting and Stained Glass