22-23 September 2022 The symposium Close Encounters will take place at the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History in The Hague. The event is jointly organised by the RKD and the embassy of the [...] Read More
Museum News
Stedelijk Museum Breda Identifies Painting by Jacobus Storck as a View of Breda
Late 2019, a seventeenth-century painting titled “Paysage fluvial hollandais avec un château” (Dutch river landscape with castle) came on the market in France. The work is signed by the Amsterdam [...] Read More
Collaboration between RKD and Szépmüvészeti Múzeum Budapest
The Szépmüvészeti Múzeum in Budapest is currently preparing a collection catalogue of its Dutch and Flemish landscape paintings from the period 1600-1800. For the description of the circa 200 [...] Read More
RKD starts research project with The Nivaagaard Collection
The Nivaagaard Collection and the RKD have started to collaborate on the research project Dutch and Flemish paintings at The Nivaagaard Collection. Attributions, the acquisition history, and their [...] Read More
MFA Boston Returns Salomon van Ruysdael Painting to the Heirs of Ferenc Chorin
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) announced to return View of Beverwijk (1646) by Salomon van Ruysdael, which had been looted during World War II, to the heirs of Ferenc Chorin (1879–1964). The [...] Read More
Royal Library of Belgium and KU Leuven Libraries Put Thousands of Books and Historic Documents Online
The Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) and KU Leuven Libraries announced an agreement with Google to share a large portion of important digitized documents reflecting the rich cultural and historical [...] Read More