A Lievens Scandal, and more, in: Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis 2024/25
Kroniek 2024/25 is now online with six scholarly articles highlighting links to
Rembrandt.
Rembrandt House Museum announces the publication of a double number of De Kroniek, for 2024/
and 2025. The Museum is pleased to present an new edition of its scholarly periodical, with six
articles on topics linked to Rembrandt. Amsterdam archive curator and researcher Mark Ponte leads
the way with a scandalous discovery, that Lievens had an affair with his maid, preceding his friend
Rembrandt. The Museum’s inaugural Bader Fellow, Jochem van Eijsden, reveals the problem of how
pupils and journeymen were identified in Dutch painting workshops, insights emerging from his
research on a monograph on Barend Fabritius, who studied with Van Hoogstraten as well as
Rembrandt. Returning to Lievens, Bredius Museum Curator Emilie den Tonkelaar shares her
discovery of the presence of an unexpected secular guest in his painting of Christ and the Centurion
Cornelius, and discusses its implications. Patrick Larsen follows the Rembrandt pupil Jürgen Ovens
back to Germany, demonstrating his use of prints by his master for a striking painting of Pentecost
for a local patron. From San Francisco, Emeritus Professor of Medicine Richard Weiskopf contributes
to the field of Rembrandt studies with a discovery of an earlier publication and date of Ferdinand
Bol’s print known as The Hour of Death. Senior Curator at the Rembrandthuis, David de Witt, draws
the connection between the works of various Dordrecht pupils that reflect knowledge of radical
developments in his late work, evidently acquired on return visits to Rembrandt around 1656,
perhaps together. And closing this edition, our colleague in Edinburgh, Christian Tico Seifert, pays
homage to the renowned Amsterdam archival researcher, and close friend of the museum,
Sebastian (Bas) Dudok van Heel, who passed away early last year.
You can find the 2024/25 Kroniek on the website of The Rembrandt House Museum:
https://www.rembrandthuis.nl/nl/jaargangen/de-kroniek-jaargang-2024-25/
For questions or further information contact Senior Curator David de Witt:
d.dewitt@rembrandthuis.nl