Inventories of 17th-century Dutch painters and art dealers: the Künstler-Inventare database

Abraham Bredius’ seminal work <em>Künstler-Inventare </em>contains over 150 inventories of artists’ possessions in the Dutch Republic. However, this rich source has never been fully transformed into datasets, partially because Bredius was selective in his transcriptions of artists’ inventories with a focus on paintings. To fill this gap and to overcome Bredius’ biases, the Virtual Interior project assembled and transcribed 46 inventories of artists’ and art dealers’ homes in 17^th-century Amsterdam. The selection of the inventories was based on three criteria: 1) The artists’ and art dealers’ inventories in my sample were drawn up during an artist’s lifetime or shortly after his death; 2) the inventories listed goods arranged by room; 3) the original documents of the inventories can still be traced in the Amsterdam City Archives. Forty-six inventories were selected and transcribed from the original sources or copied from existing publications. The majority of my samples can be found in the notarial archives (Archive nr. 5075) and the rest in the Archive of the Chamber of Insolvency (<em>Desolate Boedel kamer, </em>Archive nr. 5072), both preserved in the Amsterdam City Archives<em>. </em>Starting with the published inventories, Bart Reuvekamp from our project team traced them back to the original sources in the archive, transcribed centuries-old handwritten pages, and compiled the listed objects in digital form. In this way, our database is able to encompass all belongings present in painters’ workshops, filling in the blanks that Bredius and other authors neglected or chose to leave out – the missing information that once hindered our comprehension of how artists organized their studios. The dataset is organized as follows: <strong>1_Intro_and_data_explanation.xlsx</strong> introduces the dataset and explains the columns in the following files <strong>2_Inventory_list.csv</strong> hosts the details of the inventories in this dataset <strong>3_Inventory_items.csv</strong> contains the full transcriptions and categorical data of the objects in the inventories <strong>4_Inventory_relationships.csv</strong> captures all the people mentioned in the inventories in the pre- or postscript and/or as debtors or creditors <strong>5_Inventory_category_reference.csv</strong> provides a reference table for the ‘object_type’ and ‘object_category’ columns in 3_Inventory_items.csv <strong>6_Inventory_subjectmatter_reference.csv</strong> offers a reference table for the ‘painting_subject’ and ‘painting_genre’ columns in 3_Inventory_items.csv <strong>NB: This <em>Künstler-Inventare database </em>is a provisional version. The correction and final data process has not been fully finished in Version 1. The transcriptions might contain errors and need to be treated with caution. </strong> <strong> </strong>亚伯拉罕·布赖迪乌斯（Abraham Bredius）的开创性著作《Künstler-Inventare》收录了荷兰共和国时期超过150份艺术家财产清单。然而这一珍贵史料从未被完整转化为数据集，部分原因在于布赖迪乌斯在转录艺术家财产清单时仅聚焦绘画作品，带有选择性偏向。为填补这一研究空白并克服布赖迪乌斯的研究局限，虚拟室内项目（Virtual Interior）整理并转录了17世纪阿姆斯特丹地区46份艺术家与艺术经销商的家庭财产清单。 本次遴选的财产清单遵循三项准则：1）本研究样本中的艺术家与艺术经销商财产清单均编制于艺术家在世期间或其去世后不久；2）清单按房间对所有物品进行分类登记；3）清单原始文档目前仍可在阿姆斯特丹城市档案馆中查阅。 本次研究共从原始史料或现有出版物中遴选并转录了46份财产清单。其中大部分样本可在公证档案（档案编号5075）中获取，剩余样本则藏于阿姆斯特丹城市档案馆保存的破产委员会档案（Desolate Boedel kamer，档案编号5072）。项目团队成员巴特·勒伊夫坎普（Bart Reuvekamp）从已出版的清单入手，追溯至档案馆中的原始文档，转录了有数百年历史的手写页面，并将登记物品整理为数字化格式。 通过这一方式，本数据库得以涵盖画家工作室中的全部物品，填补了布赖迪乌斯及其他学者所遗漏或未纳入的信息空白——这些缺失的信息曾长期阻碍学界理解艺术家如何组织其工作室。 本数据集的组织形式如下： 1. "1_Intro_and_data_explanation.xlsx"：对本数据集进行整体介绍，并对后续文件中的列项进行详细说明； 2. "2_Inventory_list.csv"：收录本数据集内各财产清单的基础详情； 3. "3_Inventory_items.csv"：包含财产清单中所有物品的完整转录内容与分类数据； 4. "4_Inventory_relationships.csv"：记录清单附言、后记中提及的所有人员，以及作为债务人或债权人的相关主体； 5. "5_Inventory_category_reference.csv"：为"3_Inventory_items.csv"中的"object_type（物品类型）"与"object_category（物品类别）"列提供参考对照表； 6. "6_Inventory_subjectmatter_reference.csv"：为"3_Inventory_items.csv"中的"painting_subject（绘画主题）"与"painting_genre（绘画流派）"列提供参考对照表。 注意：本《Künstler-Inventare数据库》为临时版本。第一版的校正与最终数据处理工作尚未完全完成，转录内容可能存在错误，使用时需谨慎。