Getty Museum presents Symposium looking closely at Rembrandt Drawings

Getty Museum presents Symposium looking closely at Rembrandt Drawings

Getty Center

December 14, 2009
Getty Museum presents Symposium looking closely at Rembrandt Drawings

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, California 90049

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Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference

Symposium speakers and contributors comprise many of the top Rembrandt experts from around the world, including Holm Bevers, senior curator of Netherlandish Prints, Drawings, and Manuscripts at the Kupferstichkabinett, Museen zu Berlin; Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York; Jan Leja, research curator, private collection, New York; William W. Robinson, Maida and George Abrams Curator of Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge; Martin Royalton-Kisch, senior curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, the British Museum, London; Gregory Rubinstein, worldwide head of Old Master Drawings, Sotheby’s; and Peter Schatborn, emeritus head of the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The symposium will be moderated by Lee Hendrix, senior curator of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum and co-curator of the exhibition.

The symposium is open to the public, but reservations are required. To register, call (310) 440-7300 by January 8, 2010. Space is limited and there are no refunds or cancellations. Parking at the Getty Center will be waived for all conference participants.

Tentative Schedule

8:30–9:00am Coffee and light breakfast

9:00–9:25am Welcome by Michael Brand, director, the J. Paul Getty Museum

9:30–10:00am

Speaker: Peter Schatborn, emeritus head of the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Topic: The Core Group of Rembrandt’s Drawings

10:00–10:30am

Speaker: Gregory Rubinstein, worldwide head of Old Master Drawings, Sotheby’s
Topic: An Artistic Dialogue: The Early Drawings of Rembrandt and Lievens

10:30–10:45am Discussion

10:45–11:00am Coffee break

11:00–11:30am

Speaker: Jan Leja, research curator, private collection, New York
Topic: Ferdinand Bol before 1642: Three Case Studies

11:30–12 pm

Speaker: Holm Bevers, senior curator of Netherlandish Prints, Drawings, and Manuscripts at the Kupferstichkabinett, Museen zu Berlin
Topic: Drawings by Jan Victors: The Shaping of an Oeuvre of a Rembrandt Pupil

12–12:30pm Discussion

12:30–1:30pm Lunch

1:30–2:00pm

Speaker: William W. Robinson, Maida and George Abrams Curator of Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge
Topic: “As If One Was Painting with Colors”: Samuel van Hoogstraten and the Pictorial Drawing

2:00–2:30pm

Speaker: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus
of the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York
Topic: Rembrandt Drawings: Then and Now

2:30–2:45pm Discussion

2:45–3:00pm Coffee break

3:00–3:30pm

Speaker: Martin Royalton-Kisch, senior curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, the British Museum, London
Topic: Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference?

3:30–4:30pm Wrap-up discussion

4:30–5:30pm Exhibition viewing

5:30–7:30pm Reception

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