The Milwaukee Art Museum is pleased to provide the Museum’s presentation of Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt’s Shadow, on view February 7-April 26, 2009.

Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam. Laurie Winters, curator of earlier European art, is the organizing curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

This exhibition brings together paintings, prints, and drawings from all stages of Lievens’ career, including a number of recently rediscovered works, presents a reassessment of his artistic contributions.

Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was a daring and innovative painter, draftsman, and printmaker. He created a wide range of works, including portraits, landscapes, genre scenes, and religious and allegorical images, that were highly valued by his contemporaries.

A child prodigy, Lievens astounded art lovers with the skillful paintings he was already executing at the age of fourteen. During the formative period of his career, the boldness of his vision and brushwork rivaled that of his colleague Rembrandt van Rijn, who was a year older.

Indeed, Lievens was in many respects the initiator of artistic developments that characterized the two men’s works in the late 1620s. In subsequent decades, Lievens achieved the international fame that had always been his ambition.

While Lievens enjoyed great artistic success in his lifetime, his posthumous reputation has never risen to a commensurate level. His peripatetic career and wide range of styles, together with the erroneous attribution of many of his best paintings to other artists, Rembrandt among them, obscured his considerable accomplishments.

Out of Rembrandt’s Shadow

Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered
Discover the master painter who surpassed Rembrandt in their day.
On view Feb. 7–April 26, 2009
www.mam.org/lievens

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