Rembrandt

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Object information

Object category

painting

Physical connection Reference in ‘composite artworks’: artworks that are/were connected, such as alterpieces, decorative pieces incorporated in panelling, and works of art that were intended to be displayed together, such as pendants and series.

pendant (companion piece)

It has been suggested that the 'Portrait of a young woman', private collection (RKD Images no. 37901), is the pendant to the 'Portrait of a man in a red coat' (Valentiner 1930C, p. 260). In 2017 Manuth proposed that the 'Portrait of a young woman' from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (RKD Images no. 107567) is a "more suitable candidate for the pendant" to the 'Portrait of a man in a red coat' (online collection catalogue, accessed 2017-05-11).

Support/medium

panel (oak), oil paint

Shape/dimensions

upright oval 63.7 x 50.8 cm
According to the RRP the cradled panel was possibly originally rectangular, although the portrait was painted as an oval (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 4 (2005), p. 638-646).

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

signed and dated center right: Rembrandt. fec. / 1633
according to the RRP the painting is signed: Rembrandt . ft / 1633 (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 4 (2005), p. 638-646)

Current attribution: Rembrandt
After its discovery in 1930 this painting was regarded as an autograph Rembrandt until doubted by Tümpel in 1986 who attributed it to a pupil of Rembrandt (Valentiner 1930C, p. 260; Tümpel 1986, no. A 83). In 1984 Schwartz had already omitted this painting from his catalogue of Rembrandt paintings. In 2005 the RRP reattributed this painting to Rembrandt and it has been accepted as such since (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 4 (2005), p. 638-646; Lammertse/Van der Veen 2006, p. 145-146; Weller et al. 2011, no. 16).

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: Portret van een man met een rode wambuis
English title: Portrait of a man in a red coat
Genre: portrait
Keywords: man's portrait, bust-length portrait, head to the right, body facing right, facing front, curly hair, moustache, goatee, flat collar, button

Represented

IB number Number related to the portrait iconography collection RKD.: 117038

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Philip John William Miles (Sir)
Valentiner 1930A, no. 23; according to the RRP and Manuth the painting went by descent to his eldest daughter, Alice Catherine Miles and thence by descent to her son Captain Lionel Gerard Ames (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 4 (2005), p. 645; online collection catalogue, accessed 2017-05-12)
private collection captain Lionel Gerard Ames
Valentiner 1930A, no. 23
art dealer Vicars Brothers, London
1929 - authenticated for Vicars Brothers by Hofstede de Groot in 1929 (Hofstede de Groot cards no. 1426894; RKD Excerpts no. 423682)
art dealer Howard Young, London/New York
1930 - Valentiner 1930C, p. 260
private collection David Loew, Beverly Hills (California)
Bauch 1966, no. 364
art dealer David Findlay Sr., New York City
1954 - Sutton/Wieseman 1999, no. 25
private collection Amon Carter, Fort Worth (Texas)
by descent to his wife Minnie Meacham Smith (online collection catalogue, accessed 2017-05-11)
1954 - 1955 bought in 1954 (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 4 (2005), p. 645)
private collection Minnie Meacham Smith, Fort Worth (Texas)
by descent from her husband Amon Carter (online collection catalogue, accessed 2017-05-11)
- 1998-01-30 date of auction
Otto Naumann Ltd., New York City
1998-01-30 - bought by Alfred Bader for Otto Naumann Ltd at the auction of 1998 (Weller et al. 2011, no. 16)
Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas (Nevada)
1999 - 2001-01-26 sold by the Bellegio Gallery of Fine Art at auction on January 26, 2001
Robert Noortman Gallery, Maastricht/London
2001-01-26 - 2008 date of auction
The Leiden Collection, New York City , inv./cat.nr RR-108
2008 -

Auction(s)

Sotheby's (New York City) 1998-01-30, afb. kleurenreproductie, lotnr. 18
8.250.000 USD
Christie's (New York City) 2001-01-26, afb. kleurenreproductie, lotnr. 81
Contributor Las Vegas Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art
Name buyer : Noortman

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

The thirteenth loan exhibition of Old Masters : paintings by Rembrandt Detroit Institute of Arts , Detroit (Michigan) , 1930-05-02 - 1930-05-31 , cat. no. 23
Old master paintings [Naumann, 1999] Otto Naumann , New York City , 1999 - 2000 , cat. no. 25
Art & home : Dutch interiors in the age of Rembrandt Newark Museum , Newark (New Jersey) , 2001-09-30 - 2002-01-20 , cat. no. 17a
Art & home : Dutch interiors in the age of Rembrandt Denver Art Museum , Denver (Colorado) , 2002-03-02 - 2002-05-26 , cat. no. 17a
Noortman : one hundred master paintings [2003] Noortman , Maastricht (city) , 2003 - 2004 , cat. no. 18
Rembrandt Rembrandt [Frankfurt, 2003] Städelsches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt am Main (city) , 2003-02-01 - 2003-05-11 , cat. no. 19
Rembrandt Graphische Sammlung Albertina , Vienna (city) , 2004-03-26 - 2004-06-27 , cat. no. 82
Uylenburgh & Zoon : kunst en commercie van Rembrandt tot De Lairesse 1625-1675 Museum Het Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam (city) , 2006-09-16 - 2006-12-10 , p. 145-146
On loan with the permanent collection Museum of Fine Arts Houston , Houston (Texas) , 2008-06 - 2011-07
On loan with the permanent collection Bruce Museum , Greenwich (Connecticut) , 2011-09 - 2011-10
Rembrandt in America : collecting and connoisseurship North Carolina Museum of Art , Raleigh (North Carolina) , 2011-10-30 - 2012-01-22 , cat. no. 16
On loan with the permanent collection Museum of Fine Arts Houston , Houston (Texas) , 2012-09 - 2015
Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Leiden : le siècle de Rembrandt Musée du Louvre , Paris , 2017-02-22 - 2017-05-22 , cat. no. 29
Rembrandt and His Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection National Art Museum of China , Beijing (city) , 2017-06-17 - 2017-09-03 , cat. no. 13
Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals in the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection Long Museum , Shanghai (city) , 2017-09-23 - 2018-02-25 , p. 64-65
The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection Poesjkin Museum , Moskou , 2018-03-28 - 2018-07-22 , cat. no. 51
The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection Hermitage , Sint-Petersburg (city) , 2018-09-05 - 2019-01-13 , cat. no. 51
Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age : masterpieces from The Leiden Collection and the Musée du Louvre Louvre Abu Dhabi , Abu Dhabi , 2019-02-14 - 2019-05-18 , cat. no. 20

Literature

Valentiner 1930A , no. 23
Valentiner 1930C , p. 260
Valentiner 1931 , no. 37
Bredius 1935 , no. 176
Bauch 1966 , no. 364
Gerson 1968 , no. 151
Bredius/Gerson 1969 , no. 176
Lecaldano/Arpino 1969 , p. 100-101, no. 127
Bolten/Bolten-Rempt 1978 , no. 171
Braun 1979 , p. 96-97, no. 127
Tümpel 1986 , no. A 83
Sutton/Wieseman 1999 , p. 74-77, no. 25
Westermann et al. 2001 , no. 17a, p. 153, 163
Giltaij 2003 , no. 19
Schavemaker et al. 2003 , no. 18
Schröder/Bisanz-Prakken 2004 , no. 82
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 4 (2005), p. 638-646
Lammertse/Van der Veen 2006 , p. 145 -146, ill. 89
Schwartz 2006 , p. 274
Weller et al. 2011 , no. 16
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 6 (2015), no. 92
Van de Wetering 2016 , p. 6-7, no. 6
Ducos/Suhr 2017 , p. 78, no. 29
Ducos/Yeager-Crasselt 2019 , p. 54, 82–83, no. 20

V. Manuth, "Portrait of a Man in a Red Coat", (RR-108), in: The Leiden Collection Catalogue, A.K. Wheelock Jr. (ed.), New York 2017 (permanently stored on: http://www.theleidencollection.com/archive/)
Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 1 (April 1999), p. 10
E. Haverkamp-Begemann, Portrait of a Man in a Red Doublet, in: L. Lumpkin (ed.), The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: European and American Masters, Las Vegas 1999, p. 26–31
L. Yeager-Crasselt, Rembrandt and His Time: China and the Dutch Republic in the Golden Age, in: L. Yeager-Crasselt (ed.), 'Rembrandt and His Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection', Beijing 2017, p. 9, no. 5
L. Yeager-Crasselt, Portrait of a Man in a Red Coat, in: L. Yeager-Crasselt (ed.), 'Rembrandt and His Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection', Beijing 2017, p. 46, no. 13, p. 175, no. 13
'Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals in the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection', exh. cat. Shanghai, Long Museum, Shanghai 2017, p. 64-65
L. Yeager-Crasselt, The Leiden Collection and The Dutch Golden Age, in: P. Lyubimova (ed.), "The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection", Moscow 2018, p. 18, 21, 29, 32
L. Yeager-Crasselt, Portrait of a Man in a Red Coat, in: P. Lyubimova (ed.), "The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection", Moscow 2018, p. 168-169, no. 51

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 0001534959)
BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001252759)
BD/RKD/1818 - IB/XVIIB on Rembrandt/Onbekend (img.nr. IB00117038)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000066667)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000066668)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000038815)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000038814)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000038848)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000038813)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000048177)
, Original location BD/RKD/0700 - ONS/Dated Works (img.nr. 0000037198)

Project: The Rembrandt Database

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External links: V. Manuth, "Portrait of a Man in a Red Coat", (RR-108), in: The Leiden Collection Catalogue, A.K. Wheelock Jr. (ed.), New York 2017 (permanently stored on: http://www.theleidencollection.com/archive/)

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