Rembrandt

Illustration number 0001526323
Dimensions: 3918x4930 pixels
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Illustration number 0000003076
Dimensions: 471x650 pixels
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Illustration number 0000003077
Dimensions: 462x650 pixels
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Illustration number 0000003197
Dimensions: 469x650 pixels
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: panel (oak), oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 58.3 x 46.6 cm

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

monogrammed and dated lower center: RHL 1630
inscription center: BiBeL
on the edge of the book pages; this inscription is probably a later addition

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 1630 (1630)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Jeremia treurend over de verwoesting van Jeruzalem (Jeremia 37)
English title: Jeremiah lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem
Genre: history (genre)
Keywords: history (genre), melancholic temperament, Old Testament and Apocrypha, old man, rug, fire (physical concept)
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.: 71O77
Jeremiah lamenting over the destruction of Jerusalem
71O76623
Jeremiah is put in prison
32A14
melancholic temperament
: (Jeremiah 37)

Artistically related

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

copied in print by
Georg Friedrich Schmidt, Jeremia treurend over de verwoesting van Jeruzalem (Jeremia 37)

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Margaretha Helena Graafland, Amsterdam
According to a note by J. van der Marck Ezn in a copy of the catalogue in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, the paintings that were sold during the auction of June 10, 1767 belonged to ‘Mevrouwe de Weduwe van den Heere Alewyn, geboore Geelvinck, vrouwe van Mynden en de Loosdrechten’. She has been identified as Margaretha Helena Graafland and is probably the earliest known owner of the painting (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-, vol. 1 (1982), no. A 28).
- 1767-06-10
private collection Carl Philip César, Berlin
Given the inscription on the etching of G.F. Schmidt of 1768, the painting was possibly in this collection (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-, vol. 1 (1982), no. A 28).
1768 -
private collection Alexander Sergeievitch Stroganoff, Sint Petersburg (Rusland)
On 1 July 1778 Alexander Sergeievitch Stroganoff sold the painting, together with two other paintings, to count Alexander Alexandrovich Golovkin (1732-1781), but it was kept in usufruct (P. Michel, Le commerce du tableau à Paris dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle: acteurs et practiques, Lille 2007, p. 198).
1793 - mentioned in the Stroganoff collection catalogue of 1793, no. 38 (information from Jonathan Bikker, research curator at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2014)
private collection Sergei Grigorievich Stroganoff, Sint-Petersburg (Rusland)
(information from Jonathan Bikker, research curator at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2014)
private collection Sergei Alexandrovich Stroganoff, Sint Petersburg (Rusland)
1905 - 1922 after 1905 (information from Jonathan Bikker, research curator at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2014); sold in 1922 to Hermann Rasch
private collection Herman Rasch, Stockholm
1922 - 1939 bought in 1922 from Sergei Alexandrovich Stroganoff; sold in 1939 to the Rijksmuseum
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam , inv./cat.nr SK-A-3276
with the support of private benefactors, the Vereniging Rembrandt, the State of the Netherlands and the Fotocommissie
1939 -

Auction(s)

Posthumus, Jacob (Amsterdam (city)) 1767-06-10, lotnr. 13
Contributor vol. 1 (1982), no. A 28) probably Margaretha Helena Graafland (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-
Name buyer : Fouquet , 100 gulden

according to an annotation in a copy of the sale catalogue (RKD, The Hague; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris) , Lugt no. 1624: "Rembrandt. Een extra fraai Stuk, waarin Loth verbeeld is, zittende in een Rots, en rustende met zyn linkerhand onder ‘t hoofd, en met de Elleboog op een Boek ; voor hem staat een zilvere Schaal met eenige Kleinodiën, en in ‘t Verschiet ziet men de brandende Stad Sodom. Zeer krachtig en fraai van Coloriet, en uitvoerig op Paneel geschilderd. Hoog 23, breed 17 ½ duim [59.1 x 45 cm]".

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Exhibition of Dutch art, 1450-1900 Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1929-01-04 - 1929-03-09 , cat. no. 132
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. 3
Au Palais des Beaux-Arts : la peinture Hollandaise de Jerome Bosch a Rembrandt Paleis voor Schone Kunsten , Brussels , 1946-03-02 - 1946-04-28 , cat. no. 79
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. 8
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. 8
Rembrandt und sein Kreis [Kassel, 1964] Staatliche Museen Kassel , Kassel (Hessen) , 1964-07-04 - 1964-08-02 , cat. no. 3
Rembrandt 1669/1969 [Amsterdam 1969] Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1969-09-13 - 1969-11-30 , cat. no. 1
Rembrandt : Der Meister und seine Werkstatt Altes Museum [SMBPK] , Berlin , 1991-09-12 - 1991-11-10 , cat. no. 8
Rembrandt : de meester & zijn werkplaats Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1991-12-04 - 1992-03-01 , cat. no. 8
Rembrandt : The Master and his Workshop National Gallery [London] , London (England) , 1992-03-26 - 1992-05-14 , cat. no. 8
Rembrandt : a genius and his impact National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne , 1997-10-01 - 1997-12-07 , cat. no. 5
Rembrandt : A genius and his impact (Canberra) National Gallery of Australia , Canberra , 1997-12-17 - 1998-02-15 , cat. no. 5
Rembrandt creates Rembrandt: Art and ambition in Leiden, 1629-1631 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum , Boston (Massachusetts) , 2000-09-22 - 2001-01-07 , cat. no. 14
The Bible, Mythology and Ancient History : Rembrandt and the Rembrandt School National Museum of Western Art [Tokyo] , Tokyo , 2003-09-13 - 2003-12-14 , cat. no. 8
Rembrandt : pintor de historias Museo Nacional del Prado , Madrid (city, Spain) , 2008-10-15 - 2009-01-06 , cat. no. 6
Jonge Rembrandt Museum De Lakenhal , Leiden (city) , 2019-11-02 - 2020-02-09 , cat. no. 94

Literature

Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 6 (1915), no. 49
Witt 1929 , no. 132
Amsterdam 1932 (Rembrandt) , no. 3
Bredius 1935 , no. 604
Brussels 1946 , no. 79
Landsberger 1946 , p. 109
Knuttel 1956 , p. 76, 275
Van Schendel 1956 , no. 8
Wischnitzer 1957 , p. 226
Van Gelder 1963 , p. 15
Kassel 1964 , no. 3
Bauch 1966 , no. 127
Gerson 1968 , no. 24
Haak 1968 , p. 48, 60-61
Bredius/Gerson 1969 , no. 604
Van Thiel 1969 , no. 1
Bauch/Eckstein/Meier-Siem 1972 , p. 491
Van Thiel et al. 1976 , p. 467
Groen 1977 , p. 66-69
Van de Wetering 1977 , p. 35
Bruyn 1979 , p. 109
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 1 (1982), no. A 28
Tümpel 1986 , no. 6
Budick 1988 , p. 260-264
Brown/Kelch/ Van Thiel 1991 , no. 8
Slatkes 1992 , no. 10
Perlove 1995 , p. 159-170
Blankert/Blokhuis 1997 , no. 5
Van de Wetering 1997 , p. 144, 146, 180-181
Kofuku/Manuth 2003 , no. 8
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 4 (2005), p. 660-661
Van Straten/Moerman 2005 , p. 167-169
Sluijter 2008 , p. 127-140
Van Thiel 2008 , p. 207
Vergara/Posada/Westermann 2008 , no. 6
Suthor 2014 , p. 85-92, 205
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 6 (2015), no. 39
Brown et al. 2019 , no. 94

P. Michel, Le commerce du tableau à Paris dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle: acteurs et practiques, Lille 2007, p. 198

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

TD/Digital collection (img.nr. 0001526323)
, Original location BD/RKD/0550 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000003076)
, Original location BD/RKD/0550 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000003077)
, Original location BD/RKD/0700 - ONS/Dated Works (img.nr. 0000003197)

Project: Dutch Public Collections 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.

20 hits in RKD technical, relating to:

Technical examination type

sample

cross-section 969/1, 1976-08-27 - 1976-08-19 1 hits
edge of the painting (ground)
cross-section RCE1546a, 1976-08-27 - 1976-08-19 2 hits
edge of the painting (ground)
second cross-section no.: 969/2
cross-section RCE1546b, 1976-08-27 - 1976-08-19 2 hits
edge of the painting (ground)
second cross-section no.: 969/2

Research and restoration projects

study, 1949-05-18 1 hits
conservation, 1956 1 hitsPartially cleaned
conservation, 1964 1 hitsinvolved_persons: Hendricus Hubertus Mertens
Complete restoration
conservation, 1974 1 hitsinvolved_persons: Luitsen Kuiper
Consolidation of loose paint, scratch in paint and varnish treated
conservation, 1991 2 hitsinvolved_persons: Hélène Kat
Consolidation of loose paint, damages in varnish treated
conservation, 2003 5 hitsinvolved_persons: Michel van de Laar
Complete restoration

External links: Website museum

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Creation date: 1996-08-19; Last modified date: 2021-12-14

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