This issue of Oud Holland reexamines a Frans van Mieris painting, revealing that the woman once thought to read a letter is actually reading the Oprechte Haarlemse Courant. Van Mieris’ choice of a newspaper-reading woman from the upper class, turns out to have been quite a unique statement. The issue then turns to the unpublished catalogue raisonné of Hague School painters, compiled by Wilhelm Martin, before concluding with three reviews addressing recent publications on Hugo van der Goes, Johan Maurits’ tapestries, and Godefridus Schalcken.
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Cover Oud Holland 2025-4, volume 138
Oud Holland – Journal for Art of the Low Countries 2025–4, volume 138:
Lara Yeager-Crasselt & Menno Jonker
The art of being ‘au courant’: Reading the news in Dutch genre painting (1640-1690)
Evelien de Visser & Marie Mundigler
Wilhelm Martin and his unfinished catalogue raisonné of the Hague School (1913-1919)
Larry Silver
Review of Stephan Kemperdick and Erik Eising (eds.), Hugo van der Goes: Between pain and bliss, Munich [Hirmer Publishers] 2022 / Exh. Berlin, Gemäldegalerie SMB, 2023
Gerlinde Klatte
Review of Michiel Roscam Abbing, Brazilië zien zonder de oceaan over te steken: De wandtapijten van Johan Maurits, Amsterdam [Lias] 2021
Junko Aono
Review of Wayne Franits, Godefridus Schalcken: A late 17th-century Dutch painter in pursuit of fame and fortune, London [Lund Humphries] 2023
Oud Holland – Journal for Art of the Low Countries
The oldest surviving art-historical journal in the world is a Dutch periodical. From 1883 until now Oud Holland – Journal for Art of the Low Countries publishes scholarly articles about important archival finds and major art-historical discoveries. The scope of Oud Holland is art from the Low Countries from ca. 1400 to 1920. For more information and news about recent issues of Oud Holland, online reviews, subscriptions and information for authors.