Ger Luijten, Peter Schatborn, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. with
Rhea Sylvia Blok, Wouter Kloek, Henriette Rahusen, William W. Robinson, Cécile Tainturier, Ilona van Tuinen, Gerdien Wuestman
The catalogue for the international exhibition Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt, this book captures the different ways in which artists used preliminary or construction drawings when composing and refining their paintings. Paintings of seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes are so realistically depicted that we might assume the artists created them from life. In actuality, however, Dutch artists executed the majority of their works in the studio, often on the basis of drawings.
Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt, the catalogue for an international loan show, captures the different ways in which artists used preliminary or construction drawings when composing and refining their paintings. Here drawings of varied subject matter by a wide array of artists are featured side-by-side with their related paintings. This richly illustrated catalogue includes essays and entries written by an international group of experts on fifty-four artists including Hendrick Avercamp, Gerrit Berckheyde, Aelbert Cuyp, Jan van Goyen, Adriaen van Ostade, Jacob van Ruisdael, Pieter Saenredam, and Rembrandt van Rijn.
Authors
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., is the curator of the Northern European Art Collection at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington,
D.C. Ger Luijten has been head of the Rijksprentenkabinet of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and now is director of the Fondation Custodia in Paris.
Exhibition Schedule
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2 October 2016 – 2 January 2017
Fondation Custodia / Collection Frits Lugt, Paris
3 February – 7 May 2017