Leiden Print Room celebrates 200th birthday
Leiden viert feest! Hoogtepunten uit een academische collectie
Leiden Celebrates! Highlights from a University Collection
18 October 2014 – 25 January 2015 | Leiden-Amsterdam
On the occasion of the bicentennial of the renowned Leiden University Print Room – formerly attached to the Institute of Art History but since 2002 incorporated in the University Libraries Special Collections – the Museum Het Rembrandthuis in Amsterdam will host an exhibition of 75 seventeenth-century Dutch drawings, including masterpieces by artists like Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, Jan Lievens, Govert Flinck, Jan van Goyen, Cornelis Bega, Simon de Vlieger, Willem van de Velde de Oude, Adriaen van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart. Most of the drawings are presented to the public for the first time. The selection was made by university curator Jef Schaeps and Jaap van Veen who are also the authors of the exhibition catalogue.
For more information and a YouTube film featuring Jef Schaeps, see the Leiden University’s website and the museum’s website
Dutch landscape drawings on show in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Herman Saftleven, View in the Forest of Castle Doorwerth near Arnhem, drawing. École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
L’Âge d’or du paysage hollandais
The Golden Age of the Dutch Landscape
9 October 2014 – 16 January 2015| Paris
Yet another magnificent exhibition by curator Emmanuelle Brugerolles in the Cabinet des dessins Jean Bonna in the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
The exhibition will probably be accompanied by a catalogue in the series Carnets d’études.
Renaissance drawings in a Flemish ménage à trois
Jan Wierix, The Painter Apelles in His Workshop with Patron and Model, drawing, 1600. Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
Renaissance drawings from private Antwerp collections
25 October 2014 – 25 January 2015 | Antwerp
For the first time ever Museum Mayer van den Bergh presents 42 Renaissance drawings from the collections of private Antwerp collectors. The exhibition highlights the various functions of drawings in the sixteenth century, as a source of inspiration for a subsequent work, as a sketch for paintings for example or as an individual artwork.
The exhibition was developed in collaboration with the University of Ghent where students of Art History examined the drawings with specialists.
Read more (below, click hyperlink) about this Ménage à trois (university-museum-private collectors) in an article by Lode Goukens.