Rembrandt: Master Etchings From St. Louis Collections

Responding to popular demand, the Saint Louis Art Museum has extended the exhibition Rembrandt: Master Etchings from St. Louis Collections one week. Originally scheduled to close January 14, 2007, visitors now have until January 21 to view more than 40 of Rembrandt's best etchings from the public and private collections of St. Louis and the artist's famous painting Self-Portrait from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague in the Netherlands.

Since the exhibition opened on October 20, 2006, more than 35,000 people have toured upper level gallery. Attendance during the month of December reached as high as 1300 people per day.

The Hundred Guilder Print, once owned by a descendant of the artist's great friend, Jan Six, and Christ Presented to the People, once in the collection of the Dukes of Devonshire at Chatsworth, Derbyshire in the United Kingdom, are among the most important of the artist's prints on view together for the first time in this exhibition.

Through a chronological display of prints, this exhibition interweaves narrative, biography and the artistic process to present some of the complexities behind Rembrandt's artistic genius. A study area in the exhibition allows viewers to further investigate Rembrandt's work, including his sources and his market.
An accompanying catalogue with essays written by Francesca Herndon-Consagra, curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Museum, and Paul Crenshaw, assistant professor of art history at Washington University in St. Louis, encourages visitors to further investigate the artist's biography and unravel some of the mystery and brilliance of these impressions. The catalogue was made possible through the generosity of the William R. Orthwein Jr. and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation.

Curated by Francesca Herndon-Consagra, curator of prints, drawings, and photographs, Rembrandt: Master Etchings from St. Louis Collections is on view in Cohen Gallery (313).

The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation's leading comprehensive art museums with collections that include works of art of exceptional quality from virtually every culture and time period. Areas of notable depth include Oceanic art, pre-Columbian art, ancient Chinese bronzes and European and American art of the late 19th and 20th centuries, with particular strengths in 20th-century German art. The Museum offers a full range of exhibitions and educational programming generated independently and in collaboration with local, national, and international partners. -- www.stlouis.art.museum