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The Kroniek 2021
After relaunching the Kroniek in digital form for 2020, we are very pleased to follow up with the issue for 2021, with four new articles devoted to various topics related to Rembrandt and his circle of pupils, friends and followers.
All four focus on recent finds. We lead with Steven Nadler and Victor Tiribás’s discovery concerning Menasseh ben Israel’s Piedra Gloriosa, the publication for which Rembrandt produced a series of etchings. They carefully work out the implications for our interpretation of the relationship between artist and scholar. From the Amsterdam City Archive, Mark Ponte and Eric Schmitz present a newly-discovered Rembrandt document revealing a previously unknown portrait commission, and introduce us to the players involved. The museum’s recent exhibition on Hansken the elephant prompted new insights by Leonore van Sloten into an elephant drawing and the role of existing imagery in Rembrandt’s workshop. And lastly, David de Witt makes the case for adding a well-known drawing of an artist’s atelier to the oeuvre of Cornelis Bisschop, removing it from that of Jan Lievens. This issue rounds off with two In memoria, in which we bid farewell to two important scholars, C. Willemijn Fock and Ernst van de Wetering. Both had, in different ways, a decisive impact on the museum.
The Editorial Board: Erik Hinterding, Epco Runia, Leonore van Sloten, Ilona van Tuinen and David de Witt
P.S. Would you like to contribute an article or share a wonderful discovery? Send an email to David de Witt for further information: d.dewitt@rembrandthuis.nl. Comments, additions, criticism or compliments? These are also welcome.
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Rembrandt Paints Master Carpenter Jacob Wesselsz Wiltingh. An Unknown Rembrandt From the Archive of the Amsterdam Notaries
The painted oeuvre of Rembrandt has to a certain extent been delimited by the Rembrandt Research Project. Although the
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On Rembrandt and Elephant Buttocks “from life”
Hansken is the most famous elephant of the seventeenth century, partly thanks to Rembrandt, who drew her on several
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A Drawn Studio Scene by Cornelis Bisschop, instead of Jan Lievens
In addition to the world before their eyes, seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish artists also turned their gaze around, to
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In memoriam Ernst van de Wetering (1938-2021)
On 11 August of this year Ernst van de Wetering, former Head of the Rembrandt Research Project (RRP) and
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In memoriam Willemijn Fock (1942-2021)
On the third of June this year Willemijn Fock, Emeritus Professor of the History of Applied Arts at Leiden
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