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2:00pm–3:00pm Join Elizabeth Nogrady, curator of The Leiden Collection, for a gallery talk on the current exhibition Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life, Featuring Paintings from The Leiden Collection. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Fort Orange, the first permanent Dutch settlement that developed into the present-day city of Albany, the Albany Institute developed this exhibition centered around a partnership with The Leiden Collection, one of the preeminent private collections of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings in the United States. Delights of the Senses presents paintings and objects that explore seventeenth-century Dutch culture through the five senses. Paintings of everyday life by Dutch artists such as Gerrit Dou (1613–1675), Jan Steen (1626–1679), and Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667) are displayed alongside objects similar to those represented in the paintings. The program is free with museum admission, no registration required. Elizabeth Nogrady is the curator of The Leiden Collection, a significant private collection of Dutch seventeenth-century art founded in 2003 by Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan and Daphne Recanati Kaplan. Comprised of about 250 paintings, it includes works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and many of the Leiden fine painters. Elizabeth received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she wrote her dissertation on Abraham Bloemaert and his studio in Utrecht. She has served as a fellow at the Morgan Library & Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was a specialist in Old Master Paintings at Christie’s. Before beginning her position at The Leiden Collection in 2023, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programs at the Loeb Art Center of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Elizabeth was co-curator on the exhibition Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life and is currently preparing a major exhibition of paintings from The Leiden Collection to be held at the H’ART Museum in Amsterdam in 2025 on the occasion of the city’s 750th anniversary. [Two Women in an Interior with a Basket of Lemons, Caspar Netscher (ca. 1639–1684), oil on panel, ca. 1664-65, The Leiden Collection, New York, CN-108]