The fingerprint of an old master : on connoisseurship of Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century paintings : recent debates and seventeenth-century insights

Thesis

Title pages

Table of contents

Preface

Chapter 1: The fingerprints of Dutch and Flemish old masters : research since 1945

Introduction to the chapters 2-6: a closer look at seventeenth-century sources

Chapter 2: Original or copy

Chapter 3: ‘By his hand’ : the paradox of seventeenth-century connoisseurship

Chapter 4: ‘Without changing his manner’ : seventeenth-century views on style

Chapter 5: The painter versus the connoisseur? The best judge of pictures in seventeenth-century theory and practice

Chapter 6: The essence of seventeenth-century connoisseurship

Epilogue: A disputed Rembrandt

Summary in English

Summary in Dutch

List of illustrations

Bibliography