Drawing in Rembrandt's Day - Masterpieces from the Hamburger Kunsthalle

The Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam exhibits more than a hundred drawings by 17th-century Dutch artists from the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Unique opportunity

The drawings on show include exceptional sheets by Rembrandt as well as masterpieces by many of his predecessors and contemporaries. This is the first time that most of the drawings return to the city - and in some cases even to the house - in which they were made. The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to admire the magnificent and extremely fragile works on paper before they will again be returned into storage.

Rare studies

Rembrandt van Rijn was an accomplished etcher as well as a painter. Unfortunately, few of his drawn preliminary studies have survived, but the Hamburger Kunsthalle has two of them in its collection: the preparatory drawings for the print of 'St Jerome Reading in a Landscape' and 'Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane'. Both prints will be shown in the exhibition alongside these preliminary studies.

The Hamburger Kunsthalle

The Kunsthalle's collection of drawings is one of the most important in the world. 17th-century Dutch artists, including Rembrandt, are particularly well represented with sheets of exceptionally high quality.