Rembrandt_-_De_Staalmeesters-_het_college_van_staalmeesters_(waardijns)_van_het_Amsterdamse_lakenbereidersgilde_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Summary

Rembrandt : Syndics of the Drapers' Guild

Artist



Alternative names	Rembrandt van Rijn, Birth name: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Description	Dutch painter, printmaker and drawer
Date of birth/death	15 July 1606	4 October 1669
Location of birth/death	Leiden	Amsterdam
Work period	between circa 1625 and circa 1669 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Leiden (1620-1624), Amsterdam (1624-1625), Leiden (1625-1633), Amsterdam (1631-1669)
Authority file	: Q5598 VIAF : 64013650 ISNI : 0000000121363802 ULAN : 500011051 LCCN : n79142935 NLA : 35139809 WorldCat

Title

The Syndics of the Amsterdam Drapers' Guild, known as the ‘Sampling Officials’

Object type

painting

Genre

group portrait

Description

Nederlands: De Staalmeesters: het college van staalmeesters (waardijns) van het Amsterdamse lakenbereidersgilde, bijeen rond een tafel waarop een Perzisch kleed ligt, op tafel het opengeslagen stalenboek. Voorgesteld zijn (van links naar rechts): Jacob van Loon (1595-1674), Volckert Jansz (1605/10-81), Willem van Doeyenburg (ca. 1616-87), de knecht Frans Hendricksz Bel (1629-1701), Aernout van der Mye (ca. 1625-81) en Jochem de Neve (1629-81). Rechts boven de haard een schilderij met een brandend baken.

Date

1662

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 191.5 cm (75.3 in); width: 279 cm (109.8 in)

Collection

Rijksmuseum

	Native name	Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
	Location	Amsterdam
	Coordinates	52° 21′ 36″ N, 4° 53′ 07″ E
	Established	1800
	Website	rijksmuseum.nl
	Authority file	: Q190804 VIAF : 159624082 ISNI : 0000000121961335 ULAN : 500246547 LCCN : n79007489 NLA : 36126463 WorldCat

Current location

Gallery of Honous

Accession number

SK-C-6

Place of creation

Amsterdam

Object history

1662: commissioned by the Clothmaker's Guild, Staalhof, Staalstraat, Amsterdam (?)

1808: lent to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , Amsterdam, by the city of Amsterdam

Exhibition history

Rembrandt. Schilderijen bijeengebracht ter gelegenheid van de inhuldiging van Hare Majesteit Koningin Wilhelmina , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam , 8 September 1898–November 1898, cat. no. 116.
Historische tentoonstelling. 650-jarig bestaan van Amsterdam 1275-1925 , Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam , 3 July 1925–15 September 1925, cat. no. 562.
Rembrandt tentoonstelling ter plechtige herdenking van het 300-jarig bestaan der Universiteit van Amsterdam , Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 11 June 1932–4 September 1932, cat. no. 36.
La peinture Hollandaise de Jérôme Bosch à Rembrandt/Hollandse schilderkunst van Jeroen Bosch tot Rembrandt , Paleis voor Schone Kunsten Brussel, City of Brussels , 2 March 1946–28 April 1946, cat. no. 89.
Rembrandt Tentoonstelling. Ter herdenking van de geboorte van Rembrandt op 15 juli 1606 , Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam , 18 May 1956–5 August 1956, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam , 8 August 1956–21 October 1956, OCLC 15659340, cat. no. 92.
Rembrandt, The master and his workshop , Altes Museum, Berlin , 12 September 1991–10 November 1991, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam , 4 December 1991–1 March 1992, National Gallery, London , 26 March 1992–24 May 1992, Cat.no. 48.
Rembrandts landschappen , 6 October 2006–7 January 2007, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden , Cat.no. 3.
Masterpieces of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portrait Painting , National Gallery, London , 27 June 2007–16 September 2007.

Hollanders in beeld , 13 October 2007–13 January 2008, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague , Cat.no. 60.

Inscriptions

Signature and date bottom right:

Rembrandt f. 1662

Signature and date top right:

Rembrandt f. 1661

Added later

References

Alsdorf, B., 'La fraternité des individus: les portraits de groupe de Degas', La revue de Musée d'Orsay , nr. 30 (automne 2010) 48, 14, p. 25, fig. 9R.

Anonymous , Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue , as The Wardens of the Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild, Known as ‘The Syndics’ , 1662, height: 191.5 cm (75.3 in); width: 279 cm (109.8 in) .
Anonymous , RKDimages, Art-work number 3046 , as Portret van de waardijns van het Amsterdamse lakenbereidersgilde , 1662, height: 191.5 cm (75.3 in); width: 279 cm (109.8 in) Anonymous , Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage Photolibrary, object number 40006692 , as Portraits des Membres de la Gilde des Drapiers d'Amsterdam , 1662, height: 191.5 cm (75.3 in); width: 279 cm (109.8 in) .
Anonymous , Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 20186111 , as Die Vorsteher der Tuchmacherzunft (De Staalmeesters) , 1661, height: 191 cm (75.1 in); width: 279 cm (109.8 in)
Anonymous , Web Gallery of Art , as Sampling Officials of the Drapers' Guild , 1662, height: 192 cm (75.5 in); width: 279 cm (109.8 in) .

Bergmans, Rembrandts kijk op De Staalmeesters, 2009-07- http://mathart.come2me.nl/1014134/REMBRANDT-Staalmeesters [artikel over het perspectief].

Eeghen, I.H. van, "De Staalmeesters", Jaarboek Amstelodamum 1956 , pp. 65-80.

Inzoomer object op zaal, 2013 (Nederlands/English).

Source/Photographer

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