Tag: 1661

Portrait of Margaretha de Geer (1661)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Margaretha de Geer, Wife of Jacob Trip 1661 Oil on canvas, 75.3 x 63.8 cm National Gallery, London Margaretha de Geer was married to Jacob Trip – an extremely wealthy merchant and arms dealer – for…

Portrait of Jacob Trip (c.1661)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Jacob Trip c.1661 Oil on canvas, 130.5 x 97 cm National Gallery, London This wise-looking old man is Jacob Trip. He was one of the biggest arms dealers during one of the most turbulent periods of…

Saint Matthew and the Angel (1661)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Saint Matthew and the Angel 1661 Oil on canvas, 96 x 81 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris It is not certain, as Valentiner proposed, that the painting was part of a series of apostles or evangelists comparable to…

Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul (1661)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul 1661 Oil on canvas, 91 x 77 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt is 55 years old in this self-portrait, and he still looks at himself candidly. Here he assumes the guise of a…

The Circumcision (1661)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Circumcision 1661 Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 75 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633),…

Jacob Trip

(c.1576–1661) Jacob Trip in Art: Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Jacob Trip c.1661 National Gallery, London   Wife Margaretha de Geer (1583-1672)

View of Delft (c.1660-1661)

Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) View of Delft (Gezicht op Delft) c.1660–1661 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 115.7 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague View of Delft today: This is the most famous cityscape of the Dutch seventeenth century. The interplay of light and shade,…

Kunstmuseum Basel

Established: 1661 Address: St. Alban-Graben 16, 4051 Basel, Switzerland Website: https://www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/ Collection: • Braque, Georges (1882-1963): Le Port d’Anvers (1905) • Caravaggio (1571-1610): San Giovanni Battista (c.1600) • Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543): Erasmus of Rotterdam writing (1523) • Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543): Roundel Portrait of Erasmus of…