Tag: Amsterdam

The Boulevard de Clichy (1887)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Boulevard de Clichy 1887 Pencil, pen and ink, chalk, watercolour on paper, 40.1 x 54.4 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Compare: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Boulevard de Clichy 1887 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam     See also: • Boulevard…

Boulevard de Clichy (1887)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Boulevard de Clichy 1887 Oil on canvas, 46 x 55.5 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Compare: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Boulevard de Clichy 1887 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam     See also: • Boulevard de Clichy (Paris)

Kirk Douglas

(1916–2020) Issur Danielovitch Demsky Filmography as Actor: Lust for Life 1956 Directors: Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor Starring: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn     Spartacus 1960 Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier   Born December 9 1916 Amsterdam, NY (USA) Died…

Jeroen Krabbé

(1944) Jeroen Aart Krabbé Filmography as Actor: Stalin 1992 Director: Ivan Passer Starring: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond   Born December 5 1944 Amsterdam (Netherlands) Occupation Actor Film director Occupation Painter Producer Awards Golden Calf Title Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion

Rembrandt’s Son Titus in a Monk’s Habit (1660)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Rembrandt’s Son Titus in a Monk’s Habit 1660 Oil on canvas, 79.5 x 67.7 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt portrays his 19-year-old son Titus as a Franciscan monk. The rules of the Order prescribe a life of poverty and…

Portrait of Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg (1634)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg 1634 Oil on panel, 68.6 x 53.4 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Haesje van Cleyburg, the wife of a wealthy Rotterdam beer brewer, is fashionably yet extremely soberly dressed. She has not been made…

Portrait of Maria Trip (1639)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Maria Trip 1639 Oil on panel, 107 x 82 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Maria’s father amassed enormous wealth through trade in iron and arms. In 1639 she was 20 years old and still unmarried.…

Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert (1633)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert 1633 Oil on canvas, 130 x 103 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The Amsterdam merchant Abraham Anthonisz Recht was a convinced Remonstrant and great admirer of Wtenbogaert. He commissioned this portrait from Rembrandt in 1633 and…

Portrait of Ephraim Bueno (1645-1647)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a man, thought to be Dr. Ephraim Bueno 1645–1647 Oil on panel, 19 x 15 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Ephraim Bueno (1599–1665), a Jewish physician, poet and translator from Portugal, probably belonged to Rembrandt’s circle of friends.…