TheRembrandtDatabase

Catharijneconvent’s documents and updated art historical data now online

31 March 2014 

Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, presents the documentation of three paintings from its collection: “The baptism of the Eunuch”, “Lot and his daughters” and “Bathsheba receives a letter from David”. In particular the Baptism is rich in documentation. The painting was closely studied in 1976 by a team of experts from Catharijneconvent and RCE (The Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency, at the time Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science). Hundreds of color slides taken in the frame of this project that were kept at the RCE depot were retrieved and digitized and are now virtually united with the documentation from the Catharijneconvent archives in The Rembrandt Database.

black and white negative (6x6 cm), in situ, 1976, Rembrandt, The baptism of the Eunuch, dated 1626, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, inv./cat. no. ABM s380

Museum librarian Kees van Schooten and curator of medieval art Micha Leeflang have generously provided the database with the data and have been working on the presentation in close collaboration with the RKD.

Rembrandt, The baptism of the Eunuch, dated 1626, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, inv./cat. no. ABM s380, detail (front)