Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 – Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018

06:30 PM – 07:30 PM
US/Central

ANNUAL VIRGINIA AND IRA JACKSON LECTURE 

Presented by Stephanie Schrader, curator, drawings department, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and editor of the book “Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India”

In an intriguing moment late in his career, Rembrandt (1606–1669) created a series of 23 unusually meticulous drawings depicting emperors, princes, and courtiers from Mughal India. The extraordinary group of drawings was inspired by paintings imported into Amsterdam from the Dutch trading post in the Indian city of Surat.

Stephanie Schrader, curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s 2018 exhibition Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India, explores how the drawings demonstrate that Rembrandt’s contact with Indian art inspired him to draw in a different style on Asian paper. She looks at how the Mughal compositions Rembrandt copied were not merely foreign curiosities, but carried with them associations of empire, trade, luxury, and exceptional artifice.

A reception and book signing follow the talk.

About the annual Virginia and Ira Jackson Lecture
Virginia and Ira Jackson created an endowment in 1998 to fund an annual lecture at the Museum on the collecting and connoisseurship of prints and drawings. Free and open to the public, the Virginia and Ira Jackson Lecture is the only program of its type in the United States.

Drop in! This lecture is free. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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