Call for candidates: Junior curatorship of Prints & Drawings at the Fondation Custodia and the Rijksmuseum
17 October 2025 / Paris-Amsterdam
The Custodia Foundation and the Rijksmuseum are inviting two early-career art historians to join their teams for a two-year, non-renewable position, starting on 1 January 2026. The junior will spend one year at the Fondation Custodia in Paris and one year in the Rijksprentenkabinet at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This unique opportunity will allow young art historians specializing in the graphic arts to gain in-depth experience of two internationally renowned collections and prepare you for a career as a curator in the field of prints and drawings.
Created in 2016, this position offers the opportunity to work in two institutions that are very different in nature and size, but which share one thing in common: significant collections of Dutch and Flemish art. Working closely with the teams at these institutions, you will be able to familiarize yourself with the many facets of curatorial work. As a full member of the curatorial team, you will participate in and contribute to its program. This is a 24-month, full-time position.
For more information see the website of the Fondation Custodia (in French) or the website of the Rijksmuseum (in English, apply there before 30 October).
IPH congress Paper Trade, Amsterdam, August 2026
24-29 August 2026 / Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
The 38th Biennial Congress of the International Association of Paper Historians (IPH) will be held in Holland in 2026. The main theme will be Paper Trade.
Besides inspiring presentations, the program will include excursions to several Dutch sites of paper historical interest and will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, which was printed on handmade paper produced in the Zaanstreek, north of Amsterdam.
You are invited to read the call for papers and submit an abstract via the link to the IPH website. Submission deadline is 8 January 2026. More information will added to the IPH website in due course.
Public lecture at Tylers: Watermarks & computational art history
16 May 2025 / Haarlem, Teylers Museum
On Friday, May 16, the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History in collaboration with Teylers Museum is organizing a public lecture on watermark analysis using digital tools. Speakers are Prof. Rick Johnson and Dr. Rob Fucci. This afternoon will take place at Teylers Museum, is free of charge and can also be followed online.
This public lecture on watermark analysis is part of the Watermarks research project, to which Rick Johnson and Rob Fucci are closely associated as researchers. This project, led by the RKD, is working to improve watermark identification and comparison with innovative digital tools and image processing techniques. The research is conducted in collaboration with various partners, including Teylers Museum. The public lecture ties in with the four-day Watermarks & Computational Art History short course being taught at the RKD in May.
For program and registration click here.
Issue 55 Libretto amicorum for Ilja Veldman on her 80th birthday
22 November 2024 / Haarlem, Teylers Museum
During the symposium on Maarten van Heemskerck Prof.em. Ilja Veldman was surprised with the first copy of issue 55 of Delineavit et Sculpsit. It is dedicated to her and contains an interview with her followed by fourteen articles on fifteenth- to nineteenth-century Netherlandish prints, written by friends and colleagues. It was presented by Prof. Yvonne Bleyerveld, a former student of hers and a former member of the editorial board of Delineavit et Sculpsit. This double thick special issue was generously supported by our sponsor the Fondation Custodia with an extra grant from the Frits and To Lugt Study Fund.
Photo by Joyce Zelen
Contents of this issue:
Robert-Jan te Rijdt Passed Away at Age 69
7 November 2024 / The Hague
It is with great sadness that we learned that our dear friend, colleague and former co-editor Robert-Jan te Rijdt passed away Nov. 5 in his hometown of The Hague.
Since his retirement three years ago as curator of drawings at the Rijksmuseum, a position he held for more than 30 years, he struggled with his health, which did not prevent him from continuing his research on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dutch drawings.
Please see below the In Memoriam written by our former chairman Charles Dumas.
Robert-Jan te Rijdt, 9 Sep. 2014
(foto Carla van de Puttelaar)
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In Memoriam Robert-Jan te Rijdt (1955-2024)
By Charles Dumas
On 5 November 2024, Robert-Jan te Rijdt, who served on the editorial board of Delineavit et Sculpsit from December 1991 through April 2021, passed away at the age of 69. Besides regular editorial work – reading and commenting on incoming copy – Robert-Jan also made a large number of contributions to the journal himself: twelve essays and eleven miscellania. Moreover, in 1994 he was one of the authors of the catalogue of drawings and prints of the Rijnsburg ruin, while in 1997 he was responsible for the entries of the eighteenth-century Dutch drawings from the collection of the Jean van Caloen Foundation. He also co-authored with Janno van Tatenhove an article on drawings by Jan van Mieris in 2007, and in 2016 together with J.W. Niemeijer an extra-thick special issue on drawings made à l’impromptu (on a whim), an aspect of Dutch drawing of the eighteenth century that had not previously received attention.