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De Kroniek 2024/25
The editorial board of the Kroniek is pleased to present our readers with a new issue of the scholarly periodical of the Rembrandt House Museum. After three consecutive issues of the Kroniek in its new digital form, in 2020, 2021 and 2022, we have had to skip a year (2023), and are now offering a double issue, for 2024 and 2025, with six articles and an In Memoriam. Emilie van den Tonkelaar, of the Bredius Museum in The Hague, offers a striking new assessment of the meaning of an important sketch of Christ and the Centurion by Rembrandt’s friend Jan Lievens, and intended for the decoration of Amsterdam’s recently completed Town Hall. Late in the compiling process, Mark Ponte of the Amsterdam Archive surprised us with an important documentary find on Lievens, revealing an affair with a servant woman, strikingly similar to what happened with Rembrandt a few years subsequently. Patrick Larsen offers a contribution from his monographic research on Jürgen Ovens, linking an unusual depiction of Pentecost to sources in Rembrandt’s prints. Richard Weiskopf corrects the date of Ferdinand Bol’s initial commission for a print for Jan Harmensz. Krul’s Pampiere Werelt, drawing on bibliographic evidence. From the staff of the Rembrandt House Museum itself, Senior Curator David de Witt pulls together evidence from research on Samuel van Hoogstraten, Abraham van Dijck and Nicolaes Maes, to postulate a moment of renewed interaction between Rembrandt and these pupils around 1656/7. And our inaugural Bader Fellow, Jochem van Eijsden, points out the longstanding problem of how advanced pupils in the workshops of Rembrandt and other Dutch artists were categorized, and treated, drawing on archival research related to his project for a monograph on Barent Fabritius. Lastly, our colleague in Edinburgh, Tico Seiffert, reflects on the life and career of renowned archival researcher Sebastian Dudok van Heel, a longtime friend and regular guest of the museum, who left us in this year, having made many important contributions on Rembrandt and his circle of pupils and friends.
Already in the course of preparation for the 2024/25 issue, the board could welcome Jochem van Eijsden as a new member. The upcoming 2026 issue is being planned separately, as an Album Amicorum in honour of Stephanie Dickey, who recently retired as Bader Chair of Northern Baroque Art at Queen’s University, and who presided over a series of important gatherings of scholars at Herstmonceux Castle in the southeast corner of England. We are still accepting contributions, and proposals, for the 2027 issue.