Tracing the Lines of Genius: The Art of Drawing in Rembrandt's Time, Featuring 74 Rare Works from The Peck Collection at Rembrandthuis Amsterdam

Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Tracing the Lines of Genius: The Art of Drawing in Rembrandt's Time, Featuring 74 Rare Works from The Peck Collection at Rembrandthuis Amsterdam

For the first time on view in Europe : 74 drawings, by Rembrandt, Bol, Maes and others from The Peck Collection until June 11, 2023.

The exhibition The Art of Drawing in The Rembrandt House Museum features works by Rembrandt, Bol, Maes and their contemporaries. You can hardly get any closer to an artist than through his drawings. Along the drawing lines, you can follow the artist’s hand – whether it’s a quick sketch or a meticulously finished artwork. The exhibition The Art of Drawing is divided into seven chapters, which together answer the central question: ‘Why did a seventeenth-century artist make drawings?’ In the new, third exhibition room, the museum will host drawing workshops using seventeenth-century techniques and materials.

About The Peck Collection

In 2017 the Ack­land Art Muse­um at the Uni­ver­si­ty of North Car­oli­na at Chapel Hill received its largest gift to date. Donat­ed by UNC alum­nus Dr. Shel­don Peck and his late wife Leena, the gift includ­ed 134 large­ly sev­en­teenth- and eigh­teenth-cen­tu­ry Dutch and Flem­ish draw­ings as well as a gen­er­ous endow­ment to sup­port a new cura­tor of Euro­pean and Amer­i­can art before 1950, future acqui­si­tions, exhi­bi­tions, edu­ca­tion­al mate­ri­als, and pub­lic pro­gram­ming relat­ed to the col­lec­tion. The Peck gift instant­ly placed the Ack­land among the impor­tant repos­i­to­ries of Dutch and Flem­ish draw­ings in the Unit­ed States and estab­lished the Muse­um as one of a hand­ful of uni­ver­si­ties in the nation where draw­ings by sev­en­teenth-cen­tu­ry north­ern Euro­pean mas­ters can be stud­ied in great depth. 

A native of Durham, Shel­don Peck (1941 – 2021) was a dou­ble alum­nus of the Uni­ver­si­ty, receiv­ing his under­grad­u­ate degree from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1963 and his doc­tor­ate from the UNC School of Den­tistry in 1966. He and Leena (1945 – 2019) enjoyed dis­tin­guished careers as promi­nent ortho­don­tic spe­cial­ists and edu­ca­tors in the Boston area.

Portrait of Sheldon Peck

The Peck Col­lec­tion start­ed as a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Shel­don and his late broth­er Har­vey and con­tin­ued as a joint inter­est shared with Leena. The result of over forty years of excep­tion­al con­nois­seur­ship, sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly rig­or­ous analy­sis, and ded­i­cat­ed pur­suit, the Peck Col­lec­tion stands as an inter­na­tion­al­ly sig­nif­i­cant achieve­ment. The col­lec­tion encom­pass­es depic­tions of land­scapes, scenes of every­day life, por­traits, prepara­to­ry stud­ies, and bibil­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal scenes, form­ing a dynam­ic and rep­re­sen­ta­tive group of draw­ings by some of the most out­stand­ing artists of the peri­od. Draw­ings by Rembrandt van Rijn, the most cel­e­brat­ed Dutch artist of the sev­en­teenth cen­tu­ry, are also includ­ed in the col­lec­tion, mak­ing the Ack­land the first pub­lic art muse­um in the Unit­ed States to own a col­lec­tion of draw­ings by Rembrandt.

Image : Rembrandt (circa 1650), een zittende man die zijn handen warmt aan een vuur. The Peck Collection / Rembrandthuis

Stephanie Cime

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