All presentations are held in the Auditorium of the Rijksmuseum
Wednesday November 7, 2018 – Friday November 9, 2018
Wednesday November 7th: Pre-registration tours of the conservation studios in the Ateliergebouw. One tour will be at 3:45 and another at 4:45.
Thursday November 8th
9:00 – 9:45 Registration Coffee & tea
9:45 – 9:55 Welcome Taco Dibbits, Director Rijksmuseum
MORNING SESSION I
9:55 – 10:30 Gregor Weber (Rijksmuseum)
10:30 – 10:55 The conservation history of Rembrandt’s Portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit Petria Noble (Rijksmuseum)
10:55 – 11:25 Coffee break
MORNING SESSION II
11:25 – 11:50 Rembrandt: Materiality and Temporality Noémie Etienne (Institute for Art History, University of Bern)
11:50 – 12:15 Rembrandt re-stretched – 250 years of conservation history at the Gemäldegalerie in Kassel, with a focus on Rembrandt’s ‘Portrait of a man trimming his quill’ Anne Harmssen (Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister)
12:15 – 12:40 Rembrandt restorations in the Louvre Museum, 1793-1950 Claire Betelu & Barbara Jouves (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
12:40 – 13:00 POSTER PITCH SESSION
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION I
14:00 – 14:25 On the conservation history of Rembrandt’s Night Watch Esther van Duijn (Rijksmuseum)
14:25 – 14:50 Three Examples of far-reaching alterations to Rembrandt works in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie Katja Kleinert & Claudia Landsberg (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie)
14:50 – 15:15 From the conservation history of the paintings by Rembrandt and his studio in the Hermitage Irina Sokolova (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
AFTERNOON SESSION II
15:45 – 16:10 Notes on early treatments of the Munich Rembrandt collection Jan Schmidt (Doerner Institut, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek München)
16:10 – 16:35 “…judiciously and appropriately made…” The restoration of Rembrandt paintings in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie Christoph Schölzel (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden)
16:35 – 17:00 “Rembrandt-Paintings” – “Pettenkofered” Sibylle Schmitt (Kölnische Stadtmuseum)
17:00 – 17:45 Drinks Evening
Dinner for invited speakers
Friday 9 November 2018
9:00 – 9:30 Coffee & tea
9:45 – 10:20 Vignettes from the evolution of approaches to the conservation of paintings by Rembrandt Joyce Hill Stoner (University of Delaware, Winterthur/ UD Program in Art Conservation)
10:20 – 10:45 Early Rembrandt in Boston Rhona MacBeth (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
10:45 – 11:10 Rembrandt in New York 1891 to 2018 Dorothy Mahon (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
11:10 – 11:40 Coffee & tea break
MORNING SESSION II
11:40 – 12:05 TBA
12:05 – 12:30 “What was the intent of the painter: that is what the restorer thinks about”. Rembrandt and the De Wild family, 1900-1930 Michiel Franken & Mireille te Marvelde (RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague & Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem)
12:30 – 12:55 Hopman, Martin, Bredius, Hauser, De Wild and Traas, what traces left these keynote figures in almost 200 years of conservation history of the Rembrandts in the Mauritshuis Sabrina Meloni (Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague)
12:55 – 13:15 POSTER PITCH SESSION
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION
14:15 – 14:40 “Dirt in the grooves” and London Rembrandts: Treatment Documentation and Technical Publications in the first half of the Twentieth Century Morwenna Blewett (Worcester College/ Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford)
14:40 – 15:05 TBA Larry Keith (National Gallery, London)
15:05 – 15:30 Changing Tastes, Changing Treatments: Rembrandt van Rijn at the National Gallery of Art Dina Anchin & Alexandra Libby (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
15:30 – 15:55 TBA
15:55 – 16:30 Coffee & tea break
AFTERNOON SESSION II
16:30 – 16:55 Rembrandt Conservation Histories in Rotterdam Jeroen Giltaij (formerly Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam)
16:55 – 17:20 The Excellent State of Five Rembrandt Paintings at the Getty: Their Conservation History and a New Look at St. Bartholomew Yvonne Szafran (formerly J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
17:20 – 17:55 From ten to zero and now two – the Rembrandt’s at SMK uncovered Jørgen Wadum (University of Amsterdam, Director of the Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conservation (CATS), Copenhagen) 17:55 – 18:00
Closing words 18:15 – 20:00
Drinks and finger food Great Hall & Gallery of Honour