Information from the museum, 1 September 2009
Scholars from a number of international institutions will
gather at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center on February 2,
2010, to discuss the body of drawings created by the great Dutch artist
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) and fifteen of his pupils that are the
subject of the extraordinary exhibition Drawings by Rembrandt and His
Pupils: Telling the Difference. This milestone loan exhibition, with
over thirty lenders, will only take place at the Getty from December 8,
2009 to February 28, 2010.
The exhibition and accompanying symposium will distill decades of scholarship on Rembrandt’s drawings and the subsequent reattribution -to his pupils- of many works formerly thought to be by him. The symposium sessions will focus on Rembrandt’s relationship to the draftsmanship of Jan Lievens and to that of his pupils Ferdinand Bol, Jan Victors, and Samuel van Hoogstraten.
Symposium speakers and contributors comprise many of the top Rembrandt
experts from around the world, including Holm Bevers, senior curator of
Netherlandish Prints, Drawings, and Manuscripts at the Kupferstichkabinett, Museen zu Berlin; Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York; Jan Leja, research curator, private collection, New York; William W. Robinson, Maida and George Abrams Curator of Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge; Martin Royalton-Kisch, senior curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, the British Museum, London; Gregory Rubinstein, worldwide head of Old Master Drawings, Sotheby’s; and Peter Schatborn, emeritus head of the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
The symposium will be moderated by Lee Hendrix, senior curator of Drawings
at the J. Paul Getty Museum and co-curator of the exhibition.
The symposium is open to the public for a $15 fee (which includes
lunch), but reservations are required. To register, call (310)440 7300
by January 8, 2010. Space is limited and there are no refunds or
cancellations. Parking at the Getty Center will be waived for all
conference participants.
Tentative Schedule
8:30-9:00am
Coffee and light breakfast
9:00-9:25am
Welcome by Michael Brand, director, the J. Paul Getty Museum
9:30-10:00am
Speaker: Peter Schatborn, emeritus head of the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Topic: The Core Group of Rembrandt’s Drawings
10:00-10:30am
Speaker: Gregory Rubinstein, worldwide head of Old Master Drawings, Sotheby’s
Topic: An Artistic Dialogue: The Early Drawings of Rembrandt and Lievens
10:30-10:45am
Discussion
10:45-11:00am
Coffee break
11:00-11:30am
Speaker: Jan Leja, research curator, private collection, New York
Topic: Ferdinand Bol before 1642: Three Case Studies
11:30-12 pm
Speaker: Holm Bevers, senior curator of Netherlandish Prints, Drawings, and Manuscripts at the Kupferstichkabinett, Museen zu Berlin
Topic: Drawings by Jan Victors: The Shaping of an Oeuvre of a Rembrandt Pupil
12-12:30pm
Discussion
12:30-1:30pm
Lunch
1:30-2:00pm
Speaker: William W. Robinson, Maida and George Abrams Curator of Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge
Topic: “As If One Was Painting with Colors”: Samuel van Hoogstraten and
the Pictorial Drawing
2:00-2:30pm
Speaker: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus
of the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New
York
Topic: Rembrandt Drawings: Then and Now
2:30-2:45pm
Discussion
2:45-3:00pm
Coffee break
3:00-3:30pm
Speaker: Martin Royalton-Kisch, senior curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, the British Museum, London
Topic: Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference?
3:30-4:30pm
Wrap-up discussion
4:30-5:30pm
Exhibition viewing
5:30-7:30pm
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