Watermark Match Discoveries in Drawings by Rembrandt
Wednesday, May 17 @ 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. EDT / 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. PDT
Hosted by Frick Madison – Live via Zoom
C. Richard Johnson, Jr. (Cornell University and Utrecht University)
Robert Fucci (University of Amsterdam)
Join the Frick Art Reference Library for a digital art history talk discussing new findings about a group of Rembrandt’s drawings. Using recently developed software tools that create overlays of paper watermarks, twenty of Rembrandt’s sheets have revealed watermarks matching those of prints by the artist, drawings by other seventeenth-century Dutch artists, and other Dutch documents from the period. These matches confirm or prompt reconsideration of previously assigned dates for the group of drawings. Begun in 2021, this research is part of an ongoing project searching for watermark matches in seventeenth-century Dutch drawings.
As a preview, watch a video illustrating an overlay of the watermarks from Rembrandt’s Elephant and a Few Figures and a dated document from the Zeeland Archives. Click here to register for the talk.