During a lecture curator Albert Elen elaborates on his favourite drawing, which he acquired for the museum in 2004: an unusual group portrait in an interior, drawn by Aert Schouman in 1746. Depicted are a Rotterdam collector with his wife and mother, a maid, an exotic bird and various objects from his collection.

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Albert Elen, part of his lecture ‘The graphic art cabinet of Boijmans around Schouman’, given on 12 September 2009 in Museum Boijmans, on the occasion of the exhibition Birds of Different Feathers. Drawings and prints from five centuries (29.09-29.11.2009).
Camera and editing: Rose Klaver