As published in “The New Yorker”, October 2002 In Calvinist Amsterdam in the summer of 1661, the Catholic painter Michael Sweerts began to exhibit signs of indiscreet fervor. He fasted, took Communion in hidden chapes, slept on hard floors, and gave away his portraiture fees to the poor. Sweerts was from Brussels, the son of...

A painting re-attributed to Aelbert Cuyp: connoisseurship and technical research By Martin Bijl & Wouter Kloek River landscape with seven cows and the ruins of Merwede Castle  THERE ARE FEW seventeenth-century Dutch painters for whose works questions of attribution are as problematic as they are in the case of Aelbert Cuyp. Until recently few dared...

The PINACOTHEQUE DE PARIS opened a new museum at 8, Rue Vignon in Paris on 26 January 2011. The original PINACOTHEQUE DE PARIS, opened in 2007 at 28 Place de la Madeleine, is a museum dedicated solely to temporary exhibits. The new “transversal” museum – some 100 meters from the original PINACOTHEQUE – will show...

LONGTERM LOAN to the DORDRECHTS MUSEUM To celebrate the opening of the newly extended and refurbished Dordrechts Museum, two works by artists from Dordrecht will be on a one year loan. The works, Ferdinand Bol’s Maria with Child, John the Baptist and Gabriel and Aelbert Cuyp’s Lumberyard near Dordrecht will be on view when the...

LONGTERM LOAN: REMBRANDT in the REMBRANDTHUIS AMSTERDAM As of 21 January 2010 our Rembrandt, Old Man with Turban, hangs in the Rembrandthuis in Amsterdam for a 2 year period, together with 3 workd by Rembrandt pupils, Gerrit Dou, Ferdinand Bol and Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. This loan was made possible through the kind cooperation of...

The Kremer Collection Newsletter VIII Dear Sir, Madam, EXHIBITION IN COLOGNE CLOSED Now that our exhibition in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud closed on October 5, we can take stock: Visitors – Approximately 34,000  people visited the exhibition from Friday 11 July thru Sunday 5 October, or an average of  more than 460 per...

NEW WEBSITE We are proud to announce the launch of our renewed and redesigned website! After taking in feedback from our visitors, we have made improvements to our navigation and have added some great new features including: New menu structure – We have updated our menu structure and navigation for easier usage. You will find...

We are proud to announce the launch of our renewed and redesigned website!

Exhibition of the FAA collection in Kassel and Haarlem On 4 January last year (see Newsletter IV) we announced that the Kremer Collection will be exhibited in Cologne starting on July 10, 2008. We can now confirm that 2 additional venues have been agreed as follows: Museum Schloss Wilhelmshöhe – Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel,...