A Seventeenth-Century Drawing for a Chaise à Porteurs

Author Biography

• Esther van der Hoorn

  Esther van der Hoorn is junior curator of decorative arts at the Rijksmuseum. She studied Art History at the University of Groningen and at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. During her studies she was a Research Associate to the Courtauld Museum and the Courtauld Institute Research Forum. At the Rijksmuseum she assists the senior curator of furniture and primarily works on the collection of drawings and designs for the decorative arts that is currently being formed through the establishment of the Decorative Art Fund.