CODART

20/10/2026

Rijksmuseum Meermanno has acquired the neighboring property at Prinsessegracht 32 in The Hague, adding 300 square meters to the museum’s floor space. The acquisition will make it possible to establish a new study center with an on-site storage facility. The museum is working toward completion by the end of 2030.

Read more: https://www.codart.nl/museums/rijksmuseum-meermanno-acquires-adjacent-building-in-the-hague/

Rijksmuseum Meermanno has acquired the neighboring property at Prinsessegracht 32 in The Hague, adding 300 square meters to the museum’s floor space. As the world’s oldest book museum prepares to celebrate its 175th anniversary in 2027, it is developing a renewal plan. The expansion is an integr...

14/10/2026

Patrimonio Nacional has recently reopened the Painting and Architecture Museums at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, which had been closed to the public for ten years.

The Painting Museum features around 100 works from the Italian, Flemish, and Spanish schools, including paintings by Rogier van der Weyden and Michiel Coxcie. Twenty-one works are on permanent display for the first time.

Read more about the new presentation: https://www.codart.nl/museums/patrimonio-nacional-reopens-el-escorials-painting-and-architecture-museums-after-ten-years/

Patrimonio Nacional has reopened the Painting and Architecture Museums at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, which had been closed to the public for a decade. The €3.1 million renovation, funded primarily through Spain’s Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, has brought n...

13/10/2026

The Special Collections Department of Leiden University Libraries has announced the appointment of Tom van der Molen (Member of CODART since 2014) as curator of prints and drawings, effective 1 January 2027. He succeeds Jef Schaeps (Member of CODART Alumni since 2026), who held this position for over 35 years until his retirement at the end of August 2026.

Read more: https://www.codart.nl/personal/tom-van-der-molen-appointed-curator-of-prints-and-drawings-at-leiden-university-libraries/

The Special Collections Department of Leiden University Libraries has announced the appointment of Tom van der Molen (Member of CODART since 2014) as curator of prints and drawings, effective 1 January 2027. He succeeds Jef Schaeps (Member of CODART Alumni since 2026), who held this position for ove...

13/10/2026

In the latest edition of the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, four articles model different ways of approaching art history grounded in questions of the visual: one examines Conrat Meit’s Renaissance busts in the context of Hapsburg court patronage; another probes Peter Paul Rubens’s artistic liberties when rendering globes; a third provides a deep dive into Rembrandt’s use of paper and printmaking through a digital lens; and a fourth thoroughly reassesses attributions to a Dutch master.

More information: https://www.codart.nl/publications/jhna-18-1-published/

JHNA is the open-access electronic journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. Dedicated to the study of Netherlandish, German, and Franco-Flemish art and architecture (c.1350-1750), the journal publishes issues of peer-reviewed articles every winter and summer.

12/10/2026

As part of her Jacoba Lugt-Klever Fellowship, Annemarie Stefes is preparing a new catalogue raisonné of the drawings of Nicolaes Berchem (1621/22–1683). She is seeking works that may have escaped her attention so far, particularly drawings in private or previously unpublished collections. Owners of drawings by Nicolaes Berchem, whether private collectors or museums, are invited to get in touch: https://www.codart.nl/publications/drawings-by-nicolaes-berchem-sought-for-new-catalogue-raisonne/

As part of her Jacoba Lugt-Klever Fellowship, Annemarie Stefes is preparing a new catalogue raisonné of the drawings of Nicolaes Berchem (1621/22–1683) and is seeking help in locating works by the artist. Although Berchem is an important draftsman, his drawings have never been the subject of a pu...

09/10/2026

The latest issue of Oud Holland – Journal for Art of the Low Countries has been published, featuring an article and a review by CODART members Tamar van Riessen and Klara Alen. Read more about their contributions: https://www.codart.nl/publications/new-issue-of-oud-holland-published-2026-3/

The latest issue of Oud Holland opens with Tamar van Riessen’s examination of four satirical paintings by Adriaen van de Venne, which utilize marriage lotteries to explore themes of moral instruction and social order. Next, Kirsten Derks investigates Rachel Ruysch’s experimental use of a blue gr...

09/10/2026

CODART Collections: Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery in Lviv, Ukraine

The works of Netherlandish masters are inseparable from the art collections of Galician aristocratic families—including the Lubomirskis, Pinińskis, Dąbskis, and Cetners, among many others—which formed the bedrock of the Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery’s collection.

The Gallery’s collection offers an excellent overview of Delftware faience and porcelain, as well as the defining movements, genres, and schools of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century painting. These include masterpieces by the ‘Great and Little’ Dutch masters and prominent Flemish painters: exquisite still lifes by Jan Jansz van de Velde, Alexander Adriaenssen, and Jan van Kessel; humorous genre scenes by Bartholomeus Molenaer; picturesque landscapes by Salomon Rombouts and Meindert Hobbema; and mythological compositions by Jan Boeckhorst and Jacob de Backer. Outstanding examples of New Testament subjects are of particular importance, including the triptych 'The Adoration of the Magi' by the workshop of Pieter Coecke van Aelst and 'The Visitation of Mary and Elizabeth' by Jan van Scorel.

The companion paintings 'Woman with a Guitar' and 'Man with a Viola da Gamba' by the brilliant Utrecht Caravaggist Gerrit van Honthorst grace the concert hall of the Potocki Palace. Meanwhile, iconic works such as 'Storm at Sea' by Pieter van der Croos and Pieter Mulier (called Tempesta), 'Allegory of Vanity of Vanities' by Monogrammist ‘G.C.’, and 'Flowers' by the workshop of Jan Brueghel adorn the rooms of the palace’s permanent exh

Find more information on our website: https://www.codart.nl/guide/museums/lviv-art-gallery/

📸: © Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery (Львівська національна галерея мистецтв імені Б.Г. Возницького) / Digitization by NGO My Future Heritage

1️⃣: Meindert Hobbema, ‘Landscape with a Watermill’, second half of the seventeenth century
2️⃣: Monogrammist “G.C.”, ‘Allegory of Vanity of Vanities’, first half of the seventeenth century
3️⃣: Pieter van der Croos, ‘Storm at Sea’
4️⃣: Cornelis de Baellieur, ‘Adoration of the Magi’, seventeenth century
5️⃣: Jan van Kessel I, ‘Flowers and Butterflies’, seventeenth century

08/10/2026

Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire, Curator of European and American Art at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, is currently organizing an exhibition on Maria van Oosterwijck (1630–1693). As part of her research, she is attempting to locate a flower still life that was illustrated in a 1992 Haboldt & Co. catalogue. She is therefore reaching out to the CODART network in the hope that someone may have encountered the painting, have records relating to it, or be aware of its present location: https://www.codart.nl/art-works/flower-still-life-by-maria-van-oosterwijck-sought-for-exhibition/

Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire, Curator of European and American Art at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and member of CODART since 2025, would like to share a research inquiry that may be of interest to CODART members. Delamaire is currently organizing an exhibition on Maria van Oosterwijck (1630.....

08/10/2026

The Mauritshuis will restitute 'Fishermen by the Lakeshore' (1651) by Jan van Goyen to the heirs of the Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker. Recent provenance research by the museum established that the painting belonged to Goudstikker’s collection before it was transferred to Germany under N**i occupation: https://www.codart.nl/art-works/mauritshuis-restitutes-jan-van-goyen-painting/

The Mauritshuis in The Hague will restitute Fishermen by the Lakeshore (1651) by Jan van Goyen to the heirs of the Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker. Recent provenance research by the museum established that the painting belonged to Goudstikker’s collection before it was transferred to Germany...

07/10/2026

Christine Seidel (Member of CODART since 2024) has been appointed as the new Head of Flemish Painting and the Northern Schools at the Museo Nacional del Prado. She succeeds Alejandro Vergara (Member of CODART since 1999), who will become Head of Academic Content at Canal Prado, the museum’s audiovisual platform: https://www.codart.nl/personal/head-of-flemish-painting-and-the-northern-schools/

Christine Seidel (Member of CODART since 2024) has been appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Museo Nacional del Prado as the museum’s new Head of Flemish Painting and the Northern Schools, a position within the Deputy Directorate for Conservation and Research. She succeeds Alejandro Vergara (...