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.
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.