January 15, 2027

Join the Holland Society for a unique private tour led by curator Dr. Sarah Mallory, featuring the Morgan Library’s new exhibit, Rembrandt’s Lions: Art and Exile in the Dutch Republic. Followed by an exclusive lunch in one of the historic parlors in the Morgan House, Dr. Mallory will walk through Rembrandt’s work and how the very definition of 17th-century ‘Dutch’ identity was still being shaped.

For the first time, the exhibit pulls together various media to showcase the commonly disregarded but crucial importance of migrants, immigrants, exiles, and refugees in Rembrandt’s world and work. As the Library shares, “It also foregrounds stories of diaspora that figure prominently in many of his etchings, newly envisioning the impact of migration on seventeenth-century life around the world.”

A key component of the exhibit is New Amsterdam, a microcosm of 17th-century Amsterdam, where sixty percent of residents hailed from elsewhere in the world, given its reputation for religious and political tolerance. While not all received the same level of tolerance, especially in Dutch territories, Rembrandt’s work shares a common thread of unity through the symbol of the Republic’s lion of exile, refuge, and migration. “The aim of the artist is thus the aim of this exhibition: to reveal the many ‘lions’ that irrevocably shaped him and the vast, emerging Republic in which they all lived and worked.”

Join us for this special opportunity to see this rarely shown part of the Morgan collection alongside Rembrandt’s work, along with loaned pieces seldom brought together, telling the story of the 17th-century Dutch world.

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Tour only | $50

Tour & Lunch | $100