Rijksmuseum, for the first time works by women artists enter the Gallery of Honor between Vermeer and Rembrandt

For the first time in the history of the Rijksmuseum, the Gallery of Honor at the museum’s Amsterdam branch will exhibitworks by women artists: paintings by Judith Leyster, Gesina ter Borch, and Rachel Ruysch will soon be permanently placed among seventeenth-century works by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Frans Hals. This decision is intended to highlight the underexposure of women artists in Dutch cultural history.

The museum recently initiated a multi-pronged research program focusing on the contribution of women in Dutch culture and their representation in the museum collection. The study aims to establish the number of women artists, investigate their lives, and unearth often absent information about women portrayed in art. It is also intended to include a survey of female collectors, donors, and curators that analyzes how the collection and the institutional history of the Rijksmuseum came about.

Jenny Reynaerts, curator of nineteenth-century painting at the museum, pointed out that the Rijksmuseum’s permanent collection presents a portrait of Holland’s culture through the centuries and that very little of the latter is told from a female perspective.

The museum will reopen to the public as soon as possible, and after the lockdown, Judith Leyster’s Serenade (1629), the Portrait of Moses ter Bor ch by Gesina ter Borch and her brother Gerard ter Borch (1667-1669), Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase by Rachel Ruysch (1690 - 1720) will join the works in the Gallery of Honor.

Pictured is the Gallery of Honor of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Rijksmuseum, for the first time works by women artists enter the Gallery of Honor between Vermeer and Rembrandt

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