Rembrandt

Illustration number 1001207132
Dimensions: 502x650 pixels
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Illustration number 0000072958
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: panel (poplar), oil paint
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 6 (2015), no. 164
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait) with rounded upper corners 102.8 x 78.8 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 left: Rembran / f 163[.]

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.: c. 1639 (1635 - 1640)

The last digit of the date has been read as a 5 (see for instance Bredius 1935, no. 179; Bauch 1966, no. 164) and a 9 (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 3 (1989), no. A 128), and according to the RRP also as a 3 (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 3 (1989), p. 292). Since 1989 the painting is generally dated ca. 1639. In the sixth volume of a Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings it is stated that "it is almost certain that the present painting was painted around 1640" (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 6 (2015), no. 164).

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Halffiguur van een man in oosterse kleding
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.: King Uzziah of Judah , Rabbi , Moses , Aaron
English title: Half length figure of an old man in oriental clothing
Genre: portrait
Keywords: figure, tronie, history (genre), half-length, head to the left, oriental, turban, Old Testament and Apocrypha, temple, column (architectural element), snakes (guide term), leprosy
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.: 71L2121
Uzziah grows arrogant and defies God by burning incense on the altar; Azariah, the priest, resists him and as the king gets angry, leprosy breaks out on his forehead
11I62(DAN)
Dan (not in biblical context)
11I62(HIZKIA)
male persons from the Old Testament (with NAME) (not in biblical context)
: There has been some discussion about the subject of the painting for which many suggestions have been made. See the Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings for a short summary of the proposed subjects(Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 3 (1989), no. A 128).

Artistically related

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

Provenance

Collection(s): Private collection
England
1742 -

Auction(s)

, Londen (Engeland), A catalogue of the late monsieur de Pile's celebrated gallery of capital pictures, 1742-04-29 - 1742-04-30, lotnr. 36
Contributor: De Piles
78.15

according to a list of buyers and prices in a copy of the sale catalogue (The Courtald Institute of Art, London), Lugt no. 555a (IDC): "Rembrandt. A Man's Head with a Turban"

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Exhibition of works by the Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Including a special selection from the works of the principal representatives of the Norwich School; and a collection of engravings, after Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A., T. Gainsborough, R.A., and G. Romney. [1878] ; Exhibition of works by the Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Including oil paintings, miniatures, and drawings. [Under revision, 1879] ; Exhibition of works by the Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Including a special collection of works by Holbein and his school. [1880] ; Exhibition of works by the Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Including a collection of drawings by John Flaxman, R.A. [Revised edition (2), 1881] Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1878 - 1879 , cat. no. 169
De Rembrandt tentoonstelling te Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1898-09 - 1898-11 , cat. no. 39
Exhibition of works by Rembrandt : winter exhibition, thirtieth year, MDCCCXCIX Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1899-01-02 - 1899-03-10 , cat. no. 83
Exhibition of Dutch art, 1450-1900 Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1929-01-04 - 1929-03-09 , cat. no. 169
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. 8
Exhibition of pictures from the Devonshire collection Agnew's , London (England) , 1948-10 - 1948-11 , cat. no. 24
Dutch pictures 1450-1750 Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1952-11-22 - 1953-03-01 , cat. no. 168
Art in seventeenth century Holland [Londen, 1976] National Gallery [London] , London (England) , 1976-09-30 - 1976-12-12 , cat. no. 86
Rembrandt in eighteenth century England Yale Center for British Art , New Haven (Connecticut) , 1983 - 1984 , cat. no. 83
Rembrandt : Der Meister und seine Werkstatt Altes Museum [SMBPK] , Berlin , 1991-09-12 - 1991-11-10 , cat. no. 28
Rembrandt : Genie auf der Suche Gemäldegalerie (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) , Berlin , 2006-08-04 - 2006-11-05 , cat. no. 26
Rembrandt : Britain's discovery of the master Scottish National Gallery , Edinburgh , 2018-07-07 - 2018-10-14 , cat. no. 5

Literature

London 1879 , no. 169
Hofstede de Groot 1898 , no. 39
London 1899 , no. 83
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 6 (1915), no. 346
Weisbach 1926 , p. 289
Witt 1929 , no. 169
Amsterdam 1932 (Rembrandt) , no. 8
Bredius 1935 , no. 179
Devonshire Collection 1948 , no. 24
Valentiner 1948 , p. 119
London 1952-1953 , no. 168
Bauch 1966 , no. 164
Gerson 1968 , no. 70
Bredius/Gerson 1969 , no. 179
Brown 1976 , no. 86
White/Alexander/Oench 1983 , p. 111, no. 83
Schwartz 1984 , p. 176, ill. 183
Tümpel 1986 , no. 77
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 3 (1989), no. A 128
Brown/Kelch/ Van Thiel 1991 , no. 28
Duchess of Devonshire 1991 , p. 44-45
Slatkes 1992 , no. 20
Van Thiel 1992 , p. 79, no. 39
Kelch/Van de Wetering 2006 , no. 26
Hirschfelder 2008 , no. 431
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 6 (2015), no. 164
Seifert et al. 2018 , no. 5

R. Dodsley, J.P. Dodsley, London and its Environs described, 1761, vol. II, p. 226

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BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001207132)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000072958)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000090077)

Project: The Rembrandt Database

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