Rijksmuseum Receives Rare Book of Drawings From the 17th Century
The Van Eeghen sketchbook contains 30 drawings and rare color preservation after centuries in private hands, the museum said.
- On Wednesday, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam opened an exhibition featuring the Van Eeghen Drawing Book, a rare 17th-century sketchbook containing around 30 drawings donated by the Van Eeghen family.
- Rarely exposed to light, the colors remain as striking as they were 400 years ago. The institution noted the book was "carefully kept and passed down from generation to generation," making its complete survival exceptionally rare.
- Several sketches are attributed to Frisian painter Rombout Uylenburgh, who worked at the Polish royal court and died in 1627 or 1628. Attribution was established only around two decades ago.
- Rijksmuseum general director Taco Dibbits called the book "a highlight of Dutch draughtsmanship." The exhibition includes "a substantial part of Uylenburgh's small surviving body of work."
- The Van Eeghen family stewarded these immaculate drawings for more than three centuries before donating them, honoring "a long-standing family tradition" of preservation and stewardship.
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has received a rare sketchbook as a gift. It is a seventeenth-century book containing thirty drawings that have remained completely intact because they were barely exposed to light. Some of the drawings are by the Frisian painter Rombout Uylenburgh. Little is known about Uylenburgh's oeuvre. Besides a small number of paintings, only two of his drawings have surfaced after his lifetime. One of these is in the collecti…
The book containing thirty virtually unknown drawings by painter Rombout van Uylenburgh is completely unique in the Netherlands.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has received in donation a notebook from the early 17th century with about thirty drawings that have been preserved practically intact for about 400 years and that have allowed to recover the figure of the Dutch artist little known Rombout Uylenburgh. The entry The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam receives notebook of drawings from the 17th century preserved intact was first published in Digital Process.
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