In the second episode of Women of the Rijksmuseum, host Cathelijne Blok and curator in training Femke Valkhoff talk about a 17th-century portrait of Maritge Vooght by Frans Hals. It turns out she was quite a famous beer brewer!
This NWO-funded VIDI-project measures the impact of women on the Dutch art market in the seventeenth century by studying household consumption. Let’s challenge the persistent assumption that the art market was dominated by men.
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