Willem Drost: A Rembrandt Pupil in Amsterdam and Venice - Hardcover

Bikker, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300105819 ISBN 13: 9780300105810

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Willem Drost (1633–1659) was one of Rembrandt’s most gifted pupils, and he is also considered one of the most mysterious. This book, the first ever devoted to this exceptional artist, unravels many of the mysteries of Drost’s life and career. Curator and art historian Jonathan Bikker offers not only new archival evidence of the artist’s date and place of death, but also a new assessment of Drost’s place in the Rembrandt workshop and in the Venetian art world of the mid-seventeenth century. Drost emerges as one of Rembrandt’s most talented imitators and, despite his short career, an artist with a variety of faces.
The book features a meticulously researched and fully illustrated catalogue raisonné with 38 paintings now attributed to Drost (several formerly attributed to Rembrandt) and 35 other paintings today known only from old sale catalogues or reproductions. The author also discusses 32 paintings he rejects as Drost’s work.

About this title

Book Description:

This book, the first ever devoted to Rembrandt’s gifted pupil Willem Drost, unravels many of the mysteries of the artist’s life and career. Featuring a meticulously researched catalogue raisonné, the book not only reassesses Drost’s place in the Rembrandt workshop and in the Venetian art world but also offers new evidence on the artist’s death.

About the Author:

Jonathan Bikker is a researcher at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and co-curator of the recent Sweerts exhibition shown in Amsterdam and Hartford, CT.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0300105819
• ISBN 13: 9780300105810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224