Carel de Nerée tot Babberich at Dordrecht Museum. (Patreon)

The exhibition about the Dutch artist Carel de Nerée tot Babberich at Dordrecht Museum certainly worths a trip to the Netherlands.

The aristocratic Carel de Nerée was not the only one in his family to have a refined skill for the graphic arts. His brother Frans was an artist as well, and the mother, Constance de Nerée tot Babberich Van Houten collaborated with Carel for a series of embroideries on painted silk of exquisite taste.

Echoes of Beardsley, Toorop, Khnopff, the Glasgow School, Wayang kulit, neo-rococo and Viennese perversion run through the rooms of this exhibition like faded ghosts in a dream.