March 17, 2022 (Société des arts, salle des Abeilles)​

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13.00: Registration and coffee

13.30: Jan Blanc (University of Geneva): Welcome and introduction 

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Session 1: Local Reaction to Dutch Immigrant Artist Communities

Chair: Susanne Bartels (University of Geneva/University of Amsterdam)

 

14.00: Forough Sajadi (Leiden University): Netherlandish Art and Artists in Iran in the Seventeenth Century

14.20: Sander Karst (University of Amsterdam): “As the Hollanders do at Amsterdam”: On how the British got a Thriving Arts Sector off the Ground (1660–1710)

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14.40: Discussion

15.10: Coffee break

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Session 2: Market and International Demand

Chair: Filip Vermeylen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

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15.30: Hans J. Van Miegroet (Duke University): Preference Formation for Dutch Art in Emerging Parisian Art Markets

15.50: Angela Jager (University of Geneva/RKD-Netherlands Institute of Art History): “Hollandske skilderien”, “Hollänska schillerier” – Importing, Collecting and Consuming Dutch Paintings in Denmark and Sweden, c. 1550–1700

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16.10: Discussion

17.00: Visit to the Dutch collections of the Musée d’art et d’histoire (open to the public)

19.00: Drinks @Barocco (for conference participants only)

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March 18, 2022 (Musée d’art et d’histoire, Auditorium)

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Session 3: Taste and Collecting

Chair: Angela Jager (University of Geneva/RKD-Netherlands Institute of Art History)

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09.15: Lucie Rochard (University of Geneva/University of Lille): From Rags

to Riches? The French Reception of Dutch Daily-Life Scenes and the Invention of a “goût flamand”, 1600–1750

09.35: Ewelina Bednarz (Copernicus University): Dutch Paintings in the Collection of Jan III Sobieski: King’s Dreams, Plans and Perception

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09.55: Discussion

10.30: Coffee break

 

Session 4: Appropriation: Invention and Technique

Chair: Jan Blanc (University of Geneva)

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11.00: Roman Grigoryev (Hermitage Museum/European University of St. Petersburg): Prophets and Commanders from Republic at the Tsar Service: Reception of Dutch Iconography in Late 17th-early 18th-Century Russia

11.20: Anne-Valérie Dulac (Paris Sorbonne Université): “[A]nd that from a People, that are noe great Lenders”: Edward Norgate’s Borrowings in Miniatura or the Art of Limning

11.40: Eduardo Lamas (KIK-IRPA, Brussels): The Genre Paintings by Murillo and the Dutch Tradition: An Example of Cultural Interaction

 

12.00: Discussion

12.30: Lunch, @Barocco (for conference participants only)

 

Session 5: Dutch Objects in a Global World

Chair: Sarah Moran (Utrecht University)

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14.00: Benjamin Schmidt (University of Washington): The Inquisitor General and the Red-Haired Barbarians: Collecting and Desecrating Dutch Art in Early Modern Japan

14.20: Anna Grasskamp (University of St Andrews): Relayering Dutch Art: Netherlandish Surfaces in EurAsian Objects

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14.40: Discussion

15.10: Coffee break

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15.45: Marije Osnabrugge (University of Geneva): Presentation of the database “Visiting the Golden Age”

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16.15: General discussion

17.00: End of conference and drinks