Information from the museum, 18 February 2010
The study day is split between a session in the morning for specialists and curators and an afternoon session open to the general public.
Specialist focus group
11.00am
Coffee & Welcome
Oliver Fairclough (Keeper of Art, National Museum Wales)
11.30am
View Rembrandt’s Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet
Discussion and research questions (Art in the Netherlands, Gallery 2)
12.15pm
Round- table discussion
12.45pm
Lunch
Public talks and discussion
2.00pm
Welcome and introduction
Anne Pritchard (Assistant Curator of Historic Art, National Museum Wales)
2.05pm
Dr. Christopher Brown (Director, Ashmolean Museum)
Rembrandt’s late portraits
Rembrandt enjoyed early fame as a portrait painter, but it was in his late career he specialised. His portraits of the late 1650s, of which the Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet is one, are amongst his most powerful.
2.35pm
Prof. Joanna Woodall (Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art)
Trijntje’s parrot. The character of imitation in Rembrandt’s portrayal of Catrina Hooghsaet
Catrina Hooghsaet had a pet parrot, which she bequeathed to another woman on her death. Joanna Woodall’s talk will explore the part played by the parrot and parroting in Rembrandt’s visual characterisation of this extraordinary woman.
3.05pm
Dr. Tico Seifert (Senior Curator, National Gallery of Scotland)
Saskia, Hendrickje, Geertje? – Sarah! Rembrandt’s Woman in Bed revisited
Rembrandt’s ‘Woman in Bed’ has the peculiar honour of having been thought to represent all three women in Rembrandt’s life (as Julia Lloyd Williams once put it). Tico Seifert will re-consider (and dismiss) these identifications in favour of Sumowski’s and Tümpel’s idea that she is actually representing the biblical figure Sarah in her wedding night with Tobias.
3.35pm
Panel discussion
4.00pm
End
Admission free. Booking essential. Contact Anne Pritchard (tel.+44 (0)2920 573131 or email > )
Location
Oriel Suite, National Museum Cardiff
Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NP