Scholars from institutions in Paris, Brussels, Cambridge, and New York share their recent work in the field of Netherlandish and Dutch drawings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, presenting new insights on well-known and newly discovered sheets.

Speakers:
A Master of Blue Landscapes: On a New Addition to the Frits Lugt Collection
Stijn Alsteens, Director, Fondation Custodia, Paris

Jacques de Gheyn II: Innovation and Experimentation in Dutch Drawing
Susanne Bartels, Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums 

Frustrated Ambition: Collaboration and Conflict in a Series of Drawings by David Vinckboons and Paulus de Kempenaer
Daan van Heesch, Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)

 Crispijn van de Passe II on Parchment
Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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This DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event was organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026.

This event was made possible through the generous support of the Indian Point Foundation, The Delegation of Flanders to the USA, and The Consulate General of Belgium in New York.

Image: Crispijn de Passe the Younger (1594–1670), Portrait of a woman as a shepherdess (detail), 1635-40. Metalpoint on prepared parchment (tafelet), inset into a painted mount. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2024.