Available as of now information and documentation about the Kassel Rembrandts

29 August 2014

Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Museumlandschaft Hessen Kassel) presents a wealth of information and documentation about five Rembrandt paintings. Of each painting normal light images, X-rays, infraredreflectographs, written documents etc. are available for the visitors of the database. The new data includes the painting “Jacob blessing Manasseh and Ephraim”, which was damaged by an acid-spraying vandal on 7 October 1977. Before and after treatment documents are now accessible on The Rembrandt Database.

black and white photograph (print), overall (front), 8 October 1977, (record number 16100); Rembrandt, Jacob blessing Manasseh and Ephraim, dated 1656, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel), Kassel (Hessen), inv./cat. no. GK 249

Anne Harmssen, Thomas Krämer and Christiane Ehrenforth of the Kassel paintings conservation department have made the documents available and provided us the technical information. We are grateful to dr. Justus Lange (chief curator Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Kassel), who assisted us in the art historical research.

normal light studies: Ektachrome, detaill (front), September 2001; Rembrandt Winter landscape, dated 1646, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel), Kassel (Hessen), inv./cat. no. GK 241