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The Rijksmuseum Bulletin
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ISSN 1877-8127 · The Rijksmuseum Publications Department · 1,550 articles in the index
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Staging African Religions in the Early Enlightenment:
Between 1723 and 1737, the immensely popular Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde was published in Amsterdam under the direction of editor, compiler and author Jean Frédéric Bernard. This multi-volume work offered a comprehensive analysis of the world’s religions, with a…
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The Life and Work of Eduardt Abrahamsz de Moor, a Gunmaker in Seventeenth-Century Utrecht
Among the many objects held in the Rijksmuseum’s H.L. Visser arms collection is a 1665 flintlock hunting gun signed ‘Eduardt Abrahams de Moor tot Utrecht’. Archival research reveals that Eduardt was a Black man who succeeded in establishing a career within the luxury gunmaking industry of the city…
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Indigenous Histories in the Rijksmuseum:
At first glance, the Rijksmuseum collection seems to lack materials relating to seventeenth-century Indigenous and Dutch colonial history in ‘New Netherland’ (encompassing parts of present-day Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut). In 1614, the governing body of the Dutch…
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‘I cut from paper all that pleases the eye’
This contribution highlights the work of Elisabeth Rijbergh (1672-1721), a Rotterdam papercut artist who enjoyed great renown in her day. From her art cabinet, Rijbergh showed her complex papercut depictions to the public for a fee and sold her works to a clientele willing to pay considerable sums…
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Grave Designs
This short notice fucuses on an unsigned design drawing, which matches an epitaph (memorial) created for one of the barons of Hardenbroek now kept in Kasteel Hardenbroek (Utrecht). Although this eighteenth-century object is not signed either, in the castle’s archive financial records are kept…
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Chinese and Javanese Features in an Eighteenth-Century Portrait of a European Woman Holding a Child
An eighteenth-century wooden statuette of a woman holding a child in the Rijksmuseum has long been attributed to Tan-Che-Qua (Chitqua), a Chinese portrait-maker active in Canton (present-day Guangzhou). This attribution proves untenable in light of the observation that Chitqua is not known to have…
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The Dog in The Night Watch:
Contrary to the past assumption that the dog in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch was the product of studies drawn from life, the author of the present short notice argues for the first time that the master looked instead to an already existing example, most likely a design drawing by Adriaen van de…
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Marian and Commemorative Iconography Combined:
Remarkable for its unique combination of Marian and commemorative iconography, the so-called ‘Spes Nostra’ painting of circa 1500 – a memorial tablet also known as an epitaph – has fuelled an ongoing debate regarding its purported message and commissioners. Despite a wide range of proposed…
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‘Why are you stripping me from myself?’
In 2023, the Rijksmuseum acquired a bronze écorché attributed to Willem van Tetrode (1525-1580). The sculpture is considered the finest of the five known casts of this flayed figure. Tetrode probably conceived it during his stay in Florence and Rome circa 1562-67. This period is marked by a growing…
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Hero or Buffoon?
For many decades, the interpretation of Rembrandt’s painting The Standard Bearer has been a subject of debate. Some authors see the painting as a self-portrait of the artist in fanciful attire, others view it as the half-length depiction of an imaginary figure for which the painter, like in other…
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‘Preserved from Decay by Air, Rain and Sun’.
The Hartog Plate, left by Dutch skipper Dirk Hartog on the Australian coast in 1616, is the earliest known western object found in Australia, making it a significant historical artefact. Over the centuries, its status has evolved from an ordinary pewter plate into an iconic symbol of the shared…
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Recent Acquisitions
This series of acquisitions emphasises the broad range of objects connected to women, underscoring the depth of their involvement in the art world.
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Who Is the Countess De Pagès?
This article examines a painting in the Rijksmuseum by the French artist Joseph-Désiré Court (1797-1865). Acquired by the museum in 1885, the painting was long believed to be a portrait of the Countess of Pagès, née Clémence de Vernède de Corneillan, depicted as St Catherine. However, new research…
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Ida Peelen
This article explores the career and intellectual development of Ida C.E. Peelen, the first female director of a Dutch national museum, and the influence of the museum-reform movement of the nineteen twenties on her curatorial practice. Beginning her career at the Rijksmuseum in 1907, Peelen…
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