Scholars from institutions in Paris, Brussels, Cambridge, and New York share their recent work in the field of Netherlandish and Dutch drawings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, presenting new insights on well-known and newly discovered sheets.
This event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026, as part of Drawings Week 2026.
The event is free but registration is required. Registration opens on 7 January 2026.
Program
Drawing in the Netherlands, ca. 1550-1650: New Research
Monday, 2 February, 10:30AM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue
Speakers
A Master of Blue Landscapes: On a New Addition to the Frits Lugt Collection
Stijn Alsteens, Director, Fondation Custodia, Paris
Jacques de Gheyn II: Innovation and Experimentation in Dutch Drawing
Susanne Bartels, Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums
Frustrated Ambition: Collaboration and Conflict in a Series of Drawings by David Vinckboons and Paulus de Kempenaer
Daan van Heesch, Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Crispijn van de Passe II on Parchment
Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art