Rijksmuseum

The largest restoration of Rembrandt's masterpiece, The Night Watch, began at the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam.

The largest restoration of Rembrandt's masterpiece, The Night Watch, is under way at the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam.

The Rijksmuseum curator Mara Lagerweij said she decided to focus on Desi as the main character for this exhibit, rather than Jacques, because so much has already been written about him.

Eventually, she worked with Chef Joris Bijdendijk — who was owner of the restaurants Rijks, inside of the Rijksmuseum, and Wils in Amsterdam — and he connected her with his publisher.

“He was not a sober painter,” said Friso Lammertse, co-curator of a major exhibition of the Dutch master’s paintings that opens this week at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.