Online Drawings Catalogue
Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century
This online catalogue focuses on the museum’s holdings of seventeenth-century Dutch drawings, serving as a standard reference, alongside that for drawings by Rembrandt and his School, for the international scholarly community.
About the project
The Rijksmuseum has one of the largest and finest collections of seventeenth-century Dutch drawings in the world, consisting of more than 5,000 individual items. The museum is committed to researching and cataloguing these works. The two online catalogues supplement four existing printed catalogues (see list below) and follow a standardized scientific format. Each signed entry includes information on the drawing’s condition, its inscriptions and provenance. Further, it contains a biography, general entry text, links to related works and, where relevant, a context field.
Aim of the project
The goal is to make the Rijksmuseum’s complete holdings of seventeenth-century drawings accessible for a broad audience, including the international scholarly community. In the coming months and years, the (remaining) Dutch drawings will be published in this online catalogue in batches per artist. Moreover, written entries from the 1998 collection catalogue will be updated and published online as well.
Related publications
- M.D. Henkel, Tekeningen van Rembrandt en zijn school, Den Haag 1942
- A. McNeil Kettering, Drawings from the Ter Borch Studio Estate, Den Haag 1988
- M. Schapelhouman en P. Schatborn, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Artists Born between 1580 and 1600, Amsterdam 1998
- P. Schatborn, Tekeningen van Rembrandt, zijn onbekende leerlingen en navolgers/Drawings by Rembrandt, his Anonymous Pupils and Followers, Den Haag 1985
Related events
Connoisseurship Master Class on Drawings, June and September 2019
Staff
Ilona van Tuinen
i.van.tuinen@rijksmuseum.nl
Curator of Drawings 16th & 17th Century and Acting Head of the Rijksprentenkabinet (especially drawings)
Jane Turner
j.shoaf-turner@rijksmuseum.nl
Former Head of the Rijksprentenkabinet
Robert-Jan te Rijdt
r.te.rijdt@rijksmuseum.nl
Curator of Drawings
Maud van Suylen
m.van.suylen@rijksmuseum.nl
Scientific Staff Member
Carolyn Mensing
c.mensing@rijksmuseum.nl
Getty Paper Project Fellow
Partners and Sponsors
This cataloguing project is generously supported by the Getty Foundation through The Paper Project, the van Marle Fonds/ Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Rijksmuseum International Circle.
