attributed to Rembrandt or follower of Rembrandt

attributed to <a class="recordlink artists" href="/explore/artists/66219" title="Rembrandt"><span class="text">Rembrandt</span></a> or follower of <a class="recordlink artists" href="/explore/artists/66219" title="Rembrandt"><span class="text">Rembrandt</span></a>

Illustration number 0001525773
Dimensions: 495x650 pixels
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Illustration number 0000271856
Dimensions: 478x650 pixels
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: panel, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 34 x 25.8 cm

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

unsigned, undated

Current attribution: attributed to Rembrandt
: or follower of Rembrandt
This painting was always viewed as an autograph Rembrandt until Gerson qualified it as a work from a student, possibly Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (Bredius/Gerson 1969, no. 591). Only Sumowski remained convinced of the attribution to Rembrandt (Sumowski 1983-1994, vol. 1 (1983), p. 22, note 32). In 2006 Bob van den Boogerd suggested to give further consideration to a reattribution to Rembrandt (Kelch/Van de Wetering 2006, no. 51). According to their website, the Wallraf Richartz Museum classifies the painting as “attributed to Rembrandt”. However, not all art historians are convinced of this attribution (not included in the latest volume of the Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings).

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: c. 1646 (1640 - 1650)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Christus aan de geselpaal
English title: Christ at the column
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: history (genre), New Testament and Apocrypha, Christ, whipping post, study
Iconclass code Iconclass codes and text contain specific scenes and names. An Iconclass code or notation is a code from the multi-lingual Iconclass system for subject retrieval. For more information about this system, see www.iconclass.nl.: 73D351
flagellation by soldiers, Christ usually tied to a column (Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; John 19:1)

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Étienne-Edmond Martin baron de Beurnonville, Paris
- 1881-05-09 date of auction
private collection Wilhelm Adolph von Carstanjen, Berlin/Cologne
temporarily on loan to the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and later the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne (Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928, vol 6 (1915), no. 317; Amsterdam 1932 (Rembrandt), no. 19)
1881-05-09 - bought at the De Beurnonville auction (according to an annotation in a copy of the sale catalogue (RKD, The Hague))
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Keulen , inv./cat.nr WRM 2528
1936 -
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Keulen , inv./cat.nr WRM 2528
In 2001 the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum changed its name to 'Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud'.
1936 -

Auction(s)

Exp.: Féral, George, Petit C. P.: Pillet (Paris) 1881-05-09 - 1881-05-16, lotnr. 435
Contributor Étienne-Edmond Martin baron de Beurnonville
Name buyer : Carstanjen , 10000 FRF

according to an annotation in a copy of the sale catalogue (RKD, The Hague) , Lugt no. 41077: "Le Christ à la colonne. Le Christ est debout, les mains liées derrière le dos et attachées à un fût de colonne. Épuisé par les mille tortures qu'il a endurées, il reste immobile, la tête inclinée sur l'épaule, dans une attitude de résignation profonde. Tout son corps, éclairé par la pleine lumière, se détache sur un fond vigoureux et transparent qui fait ressortir la finesse des chairs. Superbe étude de la plus belle manière du maître. Gravé par Gaujear. Bois. Haut., 34 cent.; larg., 26 cent."

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Ausstellung von Werken der Niederländischen Kunst veranstaltet durch die Kunstgeschichtliche Gesellschaft in Berlin : die Gemälde aus berliner Privatbesitz Akademie der Künste Berlin , Berlin , 1890-04-01 - 1890-05-15 , cat. no. 470
Internationale Kunstausstellung Düsseldorf 1904 Kunstpalast Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf , 1904-05-01 - 1904-10-23 , cat. no. 370
Rembrandt tentoonstelling ter plechtige herdenking van het 300-jarig bestaan der Universiteit van Amsterdam [- afb.] Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1932-06-11 - 1932-09-04 , cat. no. 19
Meisterwerke der Holländischen und Flämischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts Suermondt-Museum , Aachen , 1947-03-30 - 1947-05-19 , cat. no. 14
Rembrandt und seine Zeit : zweihundert Gemälde der Blütezeit der holländischen Barockmalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts aus deutschem, holländischem und schweizerischem Museums- und Privatbesitz Museum zu Allerheiligen , Schaffhausen (place) , 1949-04-10 - 1949-10-02 , cat. no. 133
Chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée de Cologne [Parijs, 1955] Musée de l'Orangerie , Paris , 1955-09-30 - 1956 , cat. no. 38
Rembrandt : tentoonstelling ter herdenking van de geboorte van Rembrandt op 15 juli 1606 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1956-05-18 - 1956-08-05 , cat. no. 55
Rembrandt : tentoonstelling ter herdenking van de geboorte van Rembrandt op 15 juli 1606 Museum Boymans , Rotterdam (city) , 1956-08-08 - 1956-10-21 , cat. no. 55
Rembrandt : zoektocht van een genie Museum Het Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam (city) , 2006-04-01 - 2006-07-02 , cat. no. 51
Rembrandt : Genie auf der Suche Gemäldegalerie (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) , Berlin , 2006-08-04 - 2006-11-05 , cat. no. 51

Literature

Bode 1883 , p. 563, no. 44
Dutuit 1885 , p. 41, no. 75
Von Wurzbach 1886 , no. 33
Berlin 1890 , no. 470
Michel 1893 , p. 551
Bode/Hofstede de Groot 1897-1905 , vol. 6 (1901), no. 317
Clemen/Firmenich-Richartz 1905 , no. 370
Schubring 1905 , p. 317-318, 320
Friedländer 1906A , p. 160
Rosenberg 1906 , p. 232
Valentiner 1907B , p. 252-253
Rosenberg/Valentiner 1909 , p. 386
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 6 (1915), no. 125
Amsterdam 1932 (Rembrandt) , no. 19
Bredius 1935 , no. 591
Aachen 1947 , no. 14
Bloch 1949 , p. 282, ill. 15
Schaffhausen 1949 , no. 133
Gerson 1949 , p. 25
May/Reidemeister 1955 , no. 38
Van Schendel 1956 , no. 55
Marx 1960 , p. 110, 316, 328
Sumowski 1964 , p. 239
Köln 1965 , p. 146, no. 2528
Bauch 1966 , no. 192
Vey/Kesting 1967 , p. 88-89, no. 2528
Bredius/Gerson 1969 , no. 591 , as by a pupil of Rembrandt, possibly Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Sumowski 1983-1994 , vol. 1 (1983), p. 22, note 32 , as Rembrandt
Hesse/Schlagenhaufer 1986 , p. 210
Giltaij 2003 , p. 142, ill. 1
Kelch/Van de Wetering 2006 , no. 51 , as attributed to Rembrandt

M. Deri, Die Malerei im 19. Jahrhundert, Berlin 1919, p. 520, ill. 195
W. Waetzold, Ausdruck und Gestaltung, in: Genius vol. 1 (1919), p. 16
D.S. Meldrum, Rembrandt’s paintings, London 1923, p. 197, no. 300
R. Seiffert-Wattenberg, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Munich 1937, p. 7, 37, 103
H. Prinz, Das Thema des weiblichen Aktes in Meister- und Schülerzeichnungen aus Rembrandts Spätzeit, Diss. Marburg 1945, p. 25
W. Bauer, Der Sohn des Genius, in: Das Kunstwerk vol. 1 (1946-47), p. 13-18
L. Reidemeister, Rembrandts Christus an der Martersäule, in: Atlantis vol. 21 (1949), p. 175
Meisterwerke aus dem Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln als Leihgaben in den Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1951, no. 2
J. Neumann, Malířství 17. století v Čechách, Prague 1951, p. 55, ill. 14
K. Ledergerber, Kunst und Religion in der Verwandlung, Cologne 1961, p. 65, ill. 24
K. Winnekes, Christus in der bildenden Kunst, Munich 1989, p. 38

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 0001525773)
BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 0000271856)

Project: The Rembrandt Database

Technical documentation

The RKD manages a collection of technical documentation that has been given to us by external researchers and museums or which stems from the RKD's own research with infrared reflectography. Documentation can be accessed by appointment at the RKD. While not all technical documentation has been entered in the database at present, new data is added on a regular basis.

5 hits in RKD technical, relating to:

Technical examination type

sample

cross-section DI771_1, 1962-10 1 hits
edge of the painting (side edge (unknown whether left or right))
alternative sample no. Kö 2

Research and restoration projects

exhibition Rembrandt : tentoonstelling ter herdenking van de geboorte van Rembrandt op 15 juli 1606, 1956 1 hits
During the exhibition X-rays were made of a lot of the exhibited paintings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
study Rembrandt's grounds and pigments, 1962 — 1976 1 hitsinvolved_persons: Hermann Kühn
The study focused mainly on grounds, and to some extent on paint layers. Samples were taken of 75 panel and canvas paintings attributed to Rembrandt.
Prof. Dr. Hermann Kühn took the samples at the painting's institution with a stereomicroscope after which he analyzed them at the Doerner Institut in Munich.
For more information: Hermann Kühn, Untersuchungen zu den Malgründen Rembrandts, 1965, p. 189-210, in: Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg, vol. 2
For more information: Hermann Kühn, Untersuchungen zu den Pigmenten und Malgründen Rembrandts, durchgeführt an den Gemälden der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Kassel, in: Maltechnik Restauro : Internationale Zeitschrift für Farb- und Maltechniken, Restaurierung und Museumsfragen 82 (1976), p. 25-33

External links: This artwork in the database of the 'Kölner Kulturelles Erbe'

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Creation date: 2011-05-09; Last modified date: 2021-12-07

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