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| Oud Holland | |
|---|---|
| Title | Oud Holland |
| Discipline | Art history |
| Abbreviation | Oud Holland |
| Publisher | Stichting Oud Holland / Brill (current distributor) |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1883–present |
| Language | Dutch, English, German, French |
| Issn | 0030-672X |
Oud Holland is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on the study of Dutch Golden Age painting, Netherlandish art, and related visual culture from the medieval period through the modern era. Founded in the late 19th century, the journal has published archival research, technical studies, provenance investigations, and historiographical essays by specialists affiliated with museums, universities, and archives such as the Rijksmuseum, the Mauritshuis, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD). Oud Holland has shaped debates about figures like Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Frans Hals, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and Hieronymus Bosch while engaging with institutions including the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Getty Research Institute, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Founded in 1883 by art historians and collectors in the Netherlands, the journal emerged amid a broader European movement that included publications such as the Burlington Magazine, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, and Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne. Early contributors included curators and scholars connected to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, and the journal quickly became a venue for cataloguing collections, publishing archival discoveries from the Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), and debating attribution questions involving artists like Carel Fabritius and Gerrit Dou. During the 20th century Oud Holland navigated disruptions caused by events such as World War I and World War II, maintaining continuity through correspondences with scholars at the Princeton University Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hermitage Museum. Postwar editorial shifts reflected methodological changes promoted by institutions like the Warburg Institute and the Courtauld Institute, incorporating connoisseurship, technical art history, and social-historical approaches.
The journal publishes articles on painting, drawing, printmaking, and material culture tied to the Low Countries and their diaspora, addressing artists and subjects including Jan van Eyck, Pieter de Hooch, Jacob van Ruisdael, Antonis Mor, Dirck Hals, Rembrandt's pupils, and the circle of Antoon van Dyck. It covers technical studies informed by laboratories such as the Rijksmuseum Conservation Department, the National Gallery Scientific Department, and the Laboratoire de recherche des Musées de France, with topics ranging from pigment analysis to panel dendrochronology linked to the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). Biographical investigations draw on archival records from the Stadsarchief Amsterdam, guild records of the Guild of Saint Luke, and inventories provenanced through the Hague Archives. The journal also publishes critical reviews of monographs from presses such as Brill, Cambridge University Press, and Yale University Press.
Oud Holland operates a peer-review system drawing referees from universities and museums including Leiden University, Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Rijksmuseum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Editorial boards have historically included figures associated with the RKD, the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN), and the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis. The journal issues quarterly volumes and occasional supplements that reproduce archival documents, conservation reports, and exhibition catalogues connected to exhibitions at institutions like the Frans Hals Museum, the Boijmans Van Beuningen, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Language policies accommodate Dutch, English, German, and French to engage an international readership; indexes and abstracts aid discoverability through databases such as WorldCat, JSTOR, and the Web of Science.
Landmark pieces include attribution studies and archival revelations concerning Rembrandt van Rijn that altered catalogue raisonnés, technical reports on works by Johannes Vermeer employing X-radiography and infrared reflectography, provenance reconstructions linked to wartime looting cases involving the Nazi plunder, and reassessments of genre painting that reposition artists like Pieter de Hooch within urban history studies of Amsterdam and Delft. The journal has published influential essays on iconography surrounding Saint Luke, technical dossiers on panel supports once attributed to Hieronymus Bosch, and conservation case studies from the Rijksmuseum that engaged specialists at the Getty Conservation Institute and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE).
Scholars cite Oud Holland in monographs and exhibition catalogues produced by the Rijksmuseum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Gallery, London, and it is regarded as an authoritative venue for primary-source publication, attribution debate, and conservation science. The journal has influenced provenance research protocols adopted by the Commission for Looted Art in Europe and curatorial framing in major exhibitions at venues such as the Frick Collection and the National Gallery of Art. Critics and historians reference its contributions in historiographical surveys alongside periodicals like The Burlington Magazine and Art Bulletin.
Oud Holland is indexed in international bibliographic services including WorldCat, Scopus, Web of Science, and JSTOR, and its back issues have been digitized in collaboration with publishing houses such as Brill and library consortia including the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and university libraries at Leiden University and Utrecht University. Subscription options are available for institutions and individuals, and selected articles appear in open-access repositories in accordance with policies of funders like the European Research Council and national research councils.
Category:Art history journals Category:Dutch publications