Convers'arte with David De Witt
Join us for the next Convers’arte, featuring the painting Lute player accompanying an old man holding a musical score, a Dutch masterpiece from the Gaudium Magnum Foundation collection, presented by David de Witt, Senior Curator at the Rembrandt House Museum. Entitled Caravaggio Comes to Leiden: Jacques de Rousseaux’s Musical Allegory, the talk will explore how this work sits at the crossroads of the Leiden workshop of Rembrandt and Jan Lievens, while also echoing the influence of Caravaggio’s Utrecht followers.
On Monday, the 13th at 6.30 pm, Dr. De Witt will guide us through Rousseaux’s journey in shaping an independent artistic voice—rooted in his influences, yet distinctly his own.
About David De Witt
David de Witt is Senior Curator at Rembrandt House Museum, since 2014, following thirteen years as Bader Curator of European Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and before that lecturing at the University of Toronto and Queen’s University. He wrote his dissertation on the Amsterdam history- and portrait-painter Jan van Noordt. His scholarly research has focused on Rembrandt and his pupils and on Dutch 17th-century art, for two catalogues of the Bader Collection, and a monograph on the Rembrandt pupil Abraham van Dijck. He is one of the curators of the exhibition The Illusionist. Samuel van Hoogstraten, now on view at Rembrandt House Museum, and fellow author and editor of an online catalogue of all the works of this remarkable artist.
