Museum of Fine Arts Boston presents seven paintings in The Rembrandt Database
16 June 2014
Since June 16th the art historical information and technical documentation of seven paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston have been online. From fall 2009 through spring 2011 MFA carried out a survey in the frame of the forthcoming catalogue on 17th century Dutch and Flemish paintings in its collection, which included the Rembrandt paintings. Each painting was studied with x-radiography, ultraviolet and infrared light and under the stereomicroscope.
We are grateful to Catherine (Kate) Smith (former Assistant Paintings Conservator), Rhona MacBeth (Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo Conservator of Paintings, Head of Paintings Conservation) and Kay Satomi (Manager of Conservation Administration) who provided us the technical documentation and the metadata and to John Hawley (Curatorial Research Fellow, Paintings) and Ronni Baer (William and Ann Elfers Senior Curator of European Paintings) who assisted us in the art historical research.