Tag: Rembrandt

Portrait of a Woman (1633)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Woman 1633 Oil on wood, 67.9 x 50.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The sitter’s identity is unknown, as in many Rembrandt portraits of the 1630s. During that decade in Amsterdam the painter was…

Portrait of a Man (1650-1660)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Man c.1650–1660 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 64.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This portrait is generally considered to be by Rembrandt, and is somewhat less uniformly thought to date from the 1650s. Both…

Portrait of a Man (1632)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Man 1632 Oil on wood, 75.6 x 52.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted just after Rembrandt’s arrival in Amsterdam, this well-preserved portrait reveals the talent that enabled the young artist to quickly make…

Man in Oriental Costume (1632)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Man in Oriental Costume (‘The Noble Slav’) 1632 Oil on canvas, 152.7 x 111.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Compared with Rembrandt‘s formal portraits of the same year, this picture is remarkable for its brilliant brushwork and…

Man with a Magnifying Glass (early 1660s)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Man with a Magnifying Glass early 1660s Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 74.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This portrait most likely depicts the Amsterdam auctioneer Pieter Haringh (1609–1685), who once handled the sale of a famous…

Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves (1648)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves 1648 Oil on wood, 80.6 x 67.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In style and execution this portrait of a dignified older gentleman is consistent with Rembrandt‘s work of about 1645–50.…

Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse (mid-1660s)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse mid-1660s Oil on canvas, 112.7 x 87.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gerard de Lairesse (1641–1711) was, in his day, a well-known painter, etcher, and art theorist. He suffered from congenital syphilis,…

Portrait of Baertje Martens (c.1640)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Baertje Martens c.1640 Oil on oak panel, 76 x 56 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Companion: Rembrandt (1606-1669) Herman Doomer 1640 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     See also: • Martens, Baertje (1596-1678)

Herman Doomer (1640)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Herman Doomer 1640 Oil on wood, 75.2 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Herman Doomer was a successful cabinetmaker who worked with the imported ebony fashionable in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The exceptional care Rembrandt took with this…