Rembrandt:
Portrait of a Man at a Writing Desk, possibly Jacob Bruyningh
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Artist |
Rembrandt
(1606–1669)
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Alternative names |
Rembrandt van Rijn, Birth name: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn |
Description |
Dutch painter, printmaker and drawer |
Date of birth/death |
15 July 1606
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4 October 1669
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Location of birth/death |
Leiden |
Amsterdam |
Work period |
between circa 1625 and circa 1669 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
Work location |
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Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q5598 |
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Title |
Portrait of a scholar
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait d’un savant"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van een geleerde"
label QS:Lru,"Портрет учёного"
label QS:Lde,"Porträt eines Gelehrten"
label QS:Lpt,"Retrato de um estudante"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of a scholar"
label QS:Lfa,"چهرهٔ یک عالم"
label QS:Lmk,"Портрет на учен" |
Object type |
painting
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Genre |
portrait
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Description |
English: In the first decade of his life in Amsterdam, to which the young Rembrandt moved from Leiden in 1631, he gained initial fame as a portrait painter. The man depicted in the Hermitage portrait is no sitter posing for the artist: his head turned as if distracted from his work for just a moment, the scholar looks out at the viewer with slightly confused eyes. The hand with its silver pencil has frozen briefly, while the other holds a large folio. Rembrandt pays great attention to the texture of the thick tablecloth, the heavy bindings of the books. We are amazed by the skill with which the young artist paints the tired, swollen hands of the old scholar, with light, short strokes creating the effect of fine, dry, yellowish skin. The large figure in the dark is set off softly by the greyish-green background; he is surrounded by unbroken silence, his work interrupted for just this one second. The man's inner concentration, his total immersion in his work were well understood by Rembrandt, whose works reveal a great interest in the image of the philosopher, the scholar, the calligrapher. Here we see the first of a series of works in which the artist was to concentrate on the spiritual world of his sitters.
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Date |
1631 date QS:P571,+1631-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 104.5 cm (41.1 in); width: 92 cm (36.2 in) dimensions QS:P2048,104.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,92U174728 |
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q132783 |
Accession number |
744 |
Place of creation |
Netherlands
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Object history |
by 1769 date QS:P,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Heinrich Graf von Brühl,
Dresden
1769: purchased by
Catherine II of Russia at Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Dresden
by 1916date QS:P,+1916-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1916-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 :
Hermitage, inv.no. 808, St. Petersburg
by 2009date QS:P,+2009-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2009-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Hermitage, inv.no. 744, St. Petersburg
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Exhibition history |
Rembrandt in der Albertina, 26 March 2004–27 June 2004, Graphische Sammlung Albertina,
Vienna, Cat.no. 79.
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Inscriptions |
Monogram and date bottom right:
RHL / 1631
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References |
RKDimages, Art-work number 33854, as Portrait of a man at a writing-desk, 104.4 × 91.8 cm (41.1 × 36.1 in)
Web Gallery of Art, as A Scholar, 105 × 92 cm (41.3 × 36.2 in).
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Source/Photographer |
www.hermitagemuseum.org :
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