Ilona van Tuinen appointed Assistant Curator at the Morgan

 11 January 2016 | New York

Effective 7 December 2015, Dutchborn Ilona van Tuinen has been appointed Assistant Curator at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, joining Dr. John Marciari (Head since June 2014) and Jennifer Tonkovich (Curator since June 2104, but already there since 1998) in the Department of Drawings and Prints. Ilona is now responsible for the Northern European (including Dutch and Flemish) drawings and prints of 1400-1900.

After having received her MA from the University of Amsterdam she started at the municipal Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden (2010-11) working on the exhibition Lucas van Leyden and the Renaissance. She then moved to New York , where she served as Assistant Curator of Tom Kaplan’s The Leiden Collection (2011-14). Back in Europe in 2014-15 she was Assistant Curator at the Fondation Custodia in Paris. 

See also the Codart website

Drawings from Floris to Rubens from a Belgian private collection

20 January – 15 May 2016 | Brussels (Royal Museums of Fine Arts)
22 July – 30 October 2016 | Maastricht (Bonnefantenmuseum)

The Brussels Print Room and the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht are staging an exhibition of Master drawings from a Belgian private collection. This focus exhibition features ninety drawings from artists from the southern and northern Netherlands created during the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. Besides drawings by Frans Floris and Rubens there are sketches for prints, paintings, stained glass and tapestries, as well as figure studies of Hendrick Goltzius and Cornelis De Vos, and landscapes by Pieter Stevens and Adriaen Frans Boudewijns. Most of the drawings have never been shown to the public before.

For more information, see the museum’s website

Two posthumous publications of Chris van Eeghen (1921-2014)

13 October 2015 | The Hague-New York

On the last day of 2014 one of the foremost private collectors of Old Master drawings in The Netherlands (and abroad) died, aged 93. Chris van Eeghen’s collection of drawings by mainly Dutch, Flemish and Italian artists was formed on the basis of his inherited part of the collection of his father and namesake Christiaan Pieter van Eeghen (1880-1968). A rich choice of his father’s collection, which contained around 40 drawings that came from the (now dispersed) collection of his grandmother’s elder brother Johannes de Clercq (1842-1867), was exhibited in Amsterdam in 1935 (Museum Fodor) and 1958 (Rijksmuseum). It is expected that the Van Eeghen collection will be continued, according to family tradition, in whole or in parts, by his children, all of them collectors themselves, with different fields of interest.

In old age Chris van Eeghen was also an active researcher, with a particular interest in the drawings by the 17th-c. Dutch artist Simon the Vlieger. He wrote three substantial articles on this artist for Master Drawings, the third of which has just been published in the latest issue: Christiaan P. van Eeghen, “Simon de Vlieger as a Draftsman, III: His Chalk Landscapes and Their Connections with Works by Anthony Waterloo and Others,” Master Drawings, 53, no. 3, 2015, pp. 313–42. In the same Autumn issue is an obituary, written by Coen Schimmelpenninck van der Oije, chairman of the Amsterdam Print Circle, of which Chris van Eeghen was a respected member. Also posthumously published is the book he wrote with Pieter van der Kuil, Brede rivieren langs hoge hellingen: Het stuwwallandschap van midden-Nederland op zeventiende-eeuwse tekeningen, which was launched in Oosterbeek on 31 August.   

For the Obituary in Master Drawings, 53, no. 3, 2015, p. 391, click here.
For the Book Brede rivieren langs hoge hellingen, click here.

Van Regteren Altena sale Part IV

13 May 2015 | Amsterdam

The last and largest part of the I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection (Dutch & Flemish Drawings from 1500 to 1900) will be sold at Christie’s in Amsterdam, 91 lots in the morning session and 202 in the afternoon. The sale comprises around 450 drawings, because several lots include additional sheets. The highlight is a group of drawings by Jacques de Gheyn II and III (lots 105-112). Most of the 18th and 19th-century drawings in this sale have low estimates, from 800/1.200 euro (lot 79 with 13 drawings) – which is of course no guarantee that they will be sold for small amounts. Nevertheless, a golden opportunity for the small collector!

For more information and the e-catalogue see Christie’s website.

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37 2014, August

Daan van Heesch – New evidence on Pieter Huys as a draughtsman and designer of prints

Jamie Gabbarelli – Paper on silk: a new print by Pieter de Jode after Antonio Tempesta, published by Giacomo Lauro and adorned by Angelo Rocca

Charles Dumas – Anthonie Crussens: aanvullingen op de catalogus gepubliceerd in 2000

Jonas Slegers – Jacob van Reesbroeck: schilder én ’plaetsnyder’

Sarah Van Ooteghem – Cataloguing old master drawings in the Royal Library of Belgium. Two newly discovered drawings by Nicolaas Verkolje and Peter Yver

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