Rembrandt

Illustration number 1001283002
Dimensions: 568x650 pixels
License under PUB DOM

Illustration number 0000070296
Dimensions: 650x568 pixels
License undetermined

Suggested searches in RKDimages

Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 128 x 112 cm
The canvas was originally larger (Broekhoff 1994, p. 31-32; Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 6 (2015), no. 204).

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

remnants of signature and date lower left: f 1645
The part of the signature which included the artist's name was cut off when the canvas was reduced (Broekhoff 1994, p. 31; Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 6 (2015), no. 204).

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 1645 (1645)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Zittende oude man met stok
English title: Seated old man with a stick
Genre: portrait
Keywords: figure, old man, knee-length portrait, body facing left, head to the left, sitting, looking away, stick, beard, fancy dress, beret with feather

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, Zittende oude man met stok
shows the prototype in its original, taller size, but not its original width (Tokyo 1992A, no. 71; Broekhoff 1994, p. 31-34)
used as model for
after Rembrandt, Zittende oude man met stok
Broekhoff 1994, p. 34-36

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Pierre Crozat, Paris
listed in the inventory of Pierre Crozat's possessions drawn up on 30 May 1740 (Stuffmann 1968, p. 101, no. 370; Broekhoff 1994, p. 29)
private collection Louis François Crozat (marquis du Châtel), France
Broekhoff 1994, p. 29
private collection Louis Antoine Crozat (baron de Thiers), Paris
private collection Catharina de Grote (tsarina van Rusland), Sint Petersburg (Rusland)
1772 - bought in 1772 with the entire Crozat de Thiers collection for Catherine the Great
Hermitage, Sint-Petersburg (Russia) , inv./cat.nr 820 (catalogue 1901)
- 1930-10
private collection Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, Paris/Lissabon
1930-10 - acquired by Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian from the Hermitage museum through Antikvariat, October 1930 (London 1937, p. 16, no. 25; website museum, accessed 2017-07-06)
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lissabon , inv./cat.nr 1489
1960 - Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian's art collection was transferred to the museum in Lissabon in 1960 (Calouste Sarkis (Broekhoff 1994, p. 29)

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Pictures from the Gulbenkian collection lent to the National Gallery National Gallery [London] , London (England) , 1937 - 1938 , cat. no. 25
European paintings from the Gulbenkian collection National Gallery of Art [Smithsonian Institution] , Washington (D.C.) , 1950 - 1951 , cat. no. 33

Literature

Smith 1829-1842 , vol. 7 (1836), no. 311
Somov 1901 , p. 325-326, no. 820
Rosenberg/Valentiner 1909 , p. 359
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 6 (1915), no. 438
Bredius 1935 , no. 239
London 1937 , p. 16, no. 25
Washington 1950 , p. 78-79, no. 33
Lisboa 1961 , p. 82-83, no. 38
Bauch 1966 , no. 185
Gerson 1968 , no. 247
Stuffmann 1968 , p. 101, no. 370
Bredius/Gerson 1969 , no. 239
Perdigão 1969 , p. 113-114
Bolten/Bolten-Rempt 1978 , no. 346
Goffen/Soucek 1984 , p. 70-71
Schwartz 1984 , ill. 257
Tümpel 1986 , no. 139
Slatkes 1992 , no. 216
Broekhoff 1994 , p. 28-42
Alexander-Knotter et al. 2006 , p. 76
Sampaio 2009 , p. 58-59, no. 20
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 6 (2015), no. 204

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001283002)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000070296)

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.

1 hits in RKD technical, relating to:

Technical examination type

radiography

External links: Website museum

Permalink: https://rkd.nl/explore/images/39179

Creation date: 2001-02-27; Last modified date: 2021-12-08

Sluiten

Explore

Rembrandt

Comments

My selections