Dr. Jeroen Giltaij Passed Away at Age 78

1 December 2025 / Rotterdam

Jeroen Giltaij (1947-2025), a graduate from the University of Amsterdam (PhD in 1997, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), worked most of his professional career at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (1972-2012). There he started as an assistant in the department of Prints and Drawings and was appointed the first chief curator of Old Master Paintings and Sculpture in 1979. His collection catalogue of the drawings of Rembrandt and his school was published in 1988, ten years after the manuscript was finished. Although from then on most of his time and energy were devoted to the research, publication, acquisition and presentation of Dutch paintings from the seventeenth century, especially by Rembrandt, Jeroen regularly also published on drawings by Rembrandt and by various other Dutch masters such as Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan van der Meer van Haarlem and Jan de Braij, including an article about the latter in our magazine (52, 2023). His last publication is on drawings by the landscape painter Jan Looten, included in Lines of Friendship, the posthumous Liber Amicorum for the late Robert-Jan te Rijdt, which was released just two weeks ago (see news item below).

Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

See also the in memoriam on the Codart website, where attention is also paid to his many publications and exhibitions in the field of Old Master paintings.