Rembrandt

Illustration number 0001526308
Dimensions: 7073x5384 pixels
License under CC BY-NC-SA by copyright: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Illustration number 0000271853
Dimensions: 650x496 pixels
License undetermined

Illustration number 0000002199
Dimensions: 650x552 pixels
License undetermined

Illustration number 0000014003
Dimensions: 650x568 pixels
License undetermined

Illustration number 0000014002
Dimensions: 650x568 pixels
License undetermined

Suggested searches in RKDimages

Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: panel (oak), oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (landscape format) 23.5 x 30.2 cm
framed: 37.1 x 45.4 cm

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

signed and dated lower right: Rembrant f 1633
on edge of dais, following the perspective of the floor

Current attribution: Rembrandt

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.: dated 1633 (1633)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Daniël weigert het afgodsbeeld van Baäl te aanbidden en spreekt met koning Cyrus over de macht van de god (Daniël 14:1-22)
Other (former) title Other title(s) or name(s) which the work of art has had, or by which it is also known. This sometimes involves rejected identifications of the subject or sitter.: Nebuchadnezzar and the Golden Idol , David before Saul , Daniel, who refuses to worship Bel, discusses the power of the god with King Cyrus
English title: Daniel and Cyrus before the idol Bel
Genre: history (genre)
Keywords: history (genre), Old Testament and Apocrypha, king, temple, sculpture, staff, curtain/drapery background, table, oil lamp, idolatry
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.: 71P421
Daniel, who refuses to worship Bel, discusses the power of the god with King Cyrus
: (Daniel 14:1-22)

Artistically related

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

used as model for
after Rembrandt, Daniël weigert het afgodsbeeld van Baäl te aanbidden en spreekt met koning Cyrus over de macht van de god (Daniël 14:1-22)

Provenance

Collection(s)

art dealer Pieter Croon, Amsterdam
probably identical to the work: 'Een schildereytge van Daniel van Rembrandt gedaen met een swarte lyst' as described in the inventory stated upon Pieter Croon's bankruptcy on Februari 20, 1650 (Hofstede de Groot 1906 A, no. 128)
- 1650-02-20
private collection Barton Booth, England
- 1733 by inheritance to his widow, Hester Santlow Booth, 1733
private collection Hester Santlow Booth, England
1733 - 1773 by inheritance to her grandson, Edward Craggs-Eliot (first baron Eliot (Port Eliot, Cornwall), 1773
private collection Edward Eliot
Edward Craggs-Eliot, first baron Eliot
1773 - 1804 probably by inheritance to the Earls of St. Germans, first to Edward Eliot's son, John Eliot, 1804
private collection John Eliot (first earl of St. Germans), Port Eliot (Cornwall)
1804 - 1823 probably by inheritance to his brother, William Eliot, 1823
private collection William Eliot (second earl of St. Germans), Port Eliot (Cornwall)
1823 - 1845 probably by inheritance to his son, Edward Granville Eliot, 1845
private collection Edward Granville Eliot (third earl of St. Germans), Port Eliot (Cornwall)
1845 - 1877 probably by inheritance to his son, William Gordon Cornwallis Eliot, 1877
private collection William Gordon Cornwallis Eliot (fourth earl of St. Germans), Port Eliot (Cornwall)
1877 - 1881 probably by inheritance to his brother, Henry Cornwallis Eliot, 1881
private collection Henry Cornwallis Eliot (fifth earl of St. Germans), Port Eliot (Cornwall)
1881 - 1911 probably by inheritance to his son, John Granville Cornwallis Eliot, 1911
private collection John Granville Eliot (sixth earl of St. Germans), Port Eliot (Cornwall)
1911 - 1922 probably by inheritance to his first cousin, Granville John Eliot, 1922
private collection Granville John Eliot (seventh earl of St. Germans), Port Eliot (Cornwall)
1922 - 1942 probably by inheritance to his brother, Montague Charles Eliot, 1942
private collection Montague Charles Eliot (eighth earl of St. Germans), Port Eliot (Cornwall)
1942 - 1960 probably by inheritance to his son, Nicholas Richard Michael Eliot, 1960
private collection Nicholas Richard Michael Eliot (ninth earl of St. Germans), Port Eliot (Cornwall)
1960 - 1988 probably by inheritance to his son, Peregrine Eliot, 1988
private collection Peregrine Eliot (tenth earl of St. Germans), Port Eliot (Cornwall)
Peregrine Eliot (tenth earl of St. Germans, born 1941 (Port Eliot, Cornwall, England))
1988 - 1992 transferred to the Trustees of the Earl of St. Germans' Heirlooms Settlement
private collection Earls of St. Germans, Port Eliot (Cornwall)
Trustees of the Earl of St. Germans' Heirlooms Settlement
1992 - unsold at Christie's, London, April 15, 1992, lot no. 28
art dealer Agnew's, London
- 1995 sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (California)/Malibu (California) , inv./cat.nr 95.PB.15
1995 -

Auction(s)

Christie's (London (England)) 1992-04-15, afb. kleurenreproductie, lotnr. 28
Contributor Earl of St. Germain

, unsold

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Rembrandt Rembrandt (Kyoto) Kyoto National Museum , Kyoto (city) , 2002-11-03 - 2003-01-08 , cat. no. 20
Rembrandt Rembrandt [Frankfurt, 2003] Städelsches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt am Main , 2003-02-01 - 2003-05-11 , cat. no. 18
Rembrandt's journey : painter, draughtsman, etcher Museum of Fine Arts Boston , Boston (Massachusetts) , 2003-10-26 - 2004-01-18 , cat. no. 35
Rembrandt's journey : painter, draughtsman, etcher Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago (Illinois) , 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09 , cat. no. 35
Rembrandt : pintor de historias Museo Nacional del Prado , Madrid (city, Spain) , 2008-10-15 - 2009-01-06 , cat. no. 13

Literature

Hofstede de Groot 1906 (Urkunden) , no. 128 , probably
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1927 (English edition) , vol. 6 (1914), no. 50 and 54a (probably)
Bredius 1921 , p. 148
Valentiner 1921 , p. 20, 131, 132
Bredius 1935 , no. 491
Bredius 1937 , pl. 491
Knuttel 1956 , p. 249
Van Gelder 1960 , p. 73-78
Marx 1960 , p. 171
Bauch 1966 , no. 11
Bauch 1967 , p. 125-127
Gerson 1968 , p. 212-213, 490, no. 59
Bredius/Gerson 1969 , no. 491
Lecaldano/Arpino 1969 , no. 103
Strauss/Van der Meulen 1979 , 1650, no. 1
Schwartz 1985 , p. 168-169
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 1 (1982), p. 263
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 2 (1986), no. A 67
Tümpel 1986 , no. 7, p. 149, 150, 154, 388-389
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 3 (1989), p. 773
Slatkes 1992 , no. 13
Los Angeles 1996 , p. 113, no. 43
Jaffé 1997 , p. 104
Wright 2000A , p. 90, fig. 73
Gribbon 2001 , p. 119
Ackley et al. 2003 , no. 35
Los Angeles 2003 , p. 54-55, no. 28
Giltaij 2003 , no. 18
Greenberg 2007 , p. 113
Vergara/Posada/Westermann 2008 , no. 13
Pointon 2009 , p. 282-283
Woollett 2009 , no. 5, p. 3, 16-17, 36
Weller et al. 2011 , p. 82, 165
Stefes/Van Sloten/Van Oosterzee 2012 , p. 67-68
Quodbach 2013 , p. 180-181
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 6 (2015), no. 102
Sluijter 2015 , p. 200, 257, 314-315

Arundel Club Portfolio, 1909
Emil Kieser, Rembrandts musizierende Gesellschaft von 1626 in ihrer psychologischen und historischen Bedeutung', Die Welt als Geschichte 9 (October 1943), p. 50
C. Hussey, 'Port Eliot, Cornwall, the seat of the Earl of St. Germans-III', Country Life 104, no. 2702(29-10-1948), p. 884; as Bel and the dragon
C. Tümpel, Studien zur Ikonographie der Historien Rembrandts, Hamburg 1968, no. 2
C. Tümpel, Rembrandt: all paintings in colour, Antwerp 1993, p. 150-154, no. 7
B.B. Fredericksen et al., Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 3rd ed., Malibu 1995, no. 24
B.B. Fredericksen et al., Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1997, no. 31
J. Giltaij, S. Hata, Rembrandt Rembrandt, Kyoto 2003, p. 20, 57, 76-79, no. 20

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

TD/Digital collection (img.nr. 0001526308)
BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 0000271853)
, Original location BD/RKD/0550 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000002199)
, Original location BD/RKD/0550 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000014003)
, Original location BD/RKD/0700 - ONS/Dated Works (img.nr. 0000014002)

Project: The Rembrandt Database
RemBench

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.

12 hits in RKD technical, relating to:

Technical examination type

Research and restoration projects

study, 1988-10 — 1988-11 2 hitsinvolved_persons: Mark W. Leonard
Painting was studied when on loan and on view at the National Gallery London with X-radiography, IR and UV
conservation, 1995-03 2 hitsinvolved_persons: Andrea Robert Rothe; David A. Jaffé
Painting was studied and cleaned after acquisition in 1995
condition check, 2008-08-29 1 hitsinvolved_persons: Sue Ann Chui

External links: website museum

Permalink: https://rkd.nl/explore/images/2448

Creation date: 1996-07-30; Last modified date: 2023-04-03

Sluiten

Explore

Rembrandt

Comments

My selections