Drawing in the Netherlands, ca. 1550-1650: New Research
Monday, February 2, 10:30AM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue
Drawing in the Netherlands, ca. 1550-1650: New Research
Curator Presentations with:
Stijn Alsteens, Director, Fondation Custodia, Paris
Susanne Bartels, Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums
Daan van Heesch, Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sponsored by the India Point Foundation and The Delegation of Flanders to the USA
Events are free but registration is required. Registration opens on January 7, 2026. Click here to register.
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Scholars from institutions in Paris, Brussels, Cambridge, and New York share their recent work in the field of Netherlandish and Dutch drawings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, presenting new insights on well-known and newly discovered sheets.
Speakers:
A Master of Blue Landscapes: On a New Addition to the Frits Lugt Collection
Stijn Alsteens, Director, Fondation Custodia, Paris
Jacques de Gheyn II: Innovation and Experimentation in Dutch Drawing
Susanne Bartels, Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums
Frustrated Ambition: Collaboration and Conflict in a Series of Drawings by David Vinckboons and Paulus de Kempenaer
Daan van Heesch, Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Crispijn van de Passe II on Parchment
Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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This DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026.
This event is made possible through the generous support of the Indian Point Foundation and The Delegation of Flanders to the USA.
Considering Collections: New Curatorial Approaches to Northern Drawings
Join us for this opportunity to hear from four engaging early career curators based in the UK and US as they discuss their recent or upcoming exhibitions that highlight northern drawings. These curators represent four distinct types or collections: a public municipal museum, a private museum, a university museum, and a private collection. Panelists will give short presentations about their exhibitions and how they engage with their respective collections, followed by a lively panel conversation about their curatorial projects and experiences.
February 1, 2026 10:30 am
Sotheby’s, New York
Panelists:
Olenka Horbatsch, Curator of Dutch, Flemish and German prints and drawings, 1400-1800 at the British Museum, London
Early Netherlandish drawings 1400–1600
British Museum, April 16 – September 20, 2026
Sarah Mallory, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Rembrandt’s Lions: Art and Exile in the Dutch Republic
Morgan Library & Museum, October 23, 2026 – January 31, 2027
Elizabeth R. Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
Drawing Taught in all its Branches: Selections from the Collection before 1820
Hood Museum of Art, March 20 – May 22, 2027
Anita V. Sganzerla, Curator for the Katrin Bellinger Collection, London
Imagining the artist at work in Northern drawings – recent acquisitions
Moderators:
Alesa Boyle, Co-founder & CEO, Trois Crayons, London
Greg Rubinstein, Head of Old Master & Early British Drawings, Worldwide at Sotheby’s
For more information and to register, please visit: https://thedrawingfoundation.org/event/drawings-week-2026-considering-collections/