Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_013.jpg
Summary
Rembrandt : Aristotle with a Bust of Homer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q5598
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Title |
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | history painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
Part of a series of seven paintings, which also included
Homer
by Rembrandt (
File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 061.jpg
),
Alexander the Great
by Rembrandt (lost),
The Cosmographer by Guercino
(lost),
Dionysius of Syracuse
by Matia Preti (lost),
The Philosopher Archita Tarantino
by Salvator Rosa (lost) and
The Philosopher
or
Jerome
by Giacinto Brandi (lost).
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Depicted people | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1653
date QS:P571,+1653-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium |
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions |
height: 143.5 cm (56.4 in); width: 136.5 cm (53.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,143.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,136.5U174728
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236
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Current location |
room 637
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Accession number |
61.198
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Place of creation | Amsterdam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history |
Unknown date
Unknown date
: commissioned by Don Antonio Ruffo, principe della Scaletta (1610/1611-1678),
Messina
, Inventory number 599 for NLG 500
1678: inherited by Alfonsina Gotho (....-1689), Messina (?)
date QS:P,+1710-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1710-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Don Placido Ruffo, principe della Scaletta, Messina
from 1710 until 1739
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1710-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1739-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Don Antonio Ruffo (II), principe della Scaletta (....-1739), Messina
from 1739 until 1743
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1739-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1743-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Don Calogero Ruffo, principe della Scaletta, Messina
from 1743 until 1755
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1743-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1755-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Don Giovanni Ruffo e la Rocca, principe della Scaletta, Messina
from 1778 until 1783
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1778-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Giovanni Ruffo, Messina
from 1783
date QS:P,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Ruffo family, Messina (?)
by 1810
date QS:P,+1810-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1810-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Vaughan (?)
17 February 1810: purchased by Barnett at an anonymous sale at Christie's,
London
(auction house), lot no. 113, for £79 16s (as ‘Rembrandt 113 A portrait of a Sculptor with a Bust’)
date QS:P,+1815-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1815-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet (1749-1838), Ashridge Park, Berkhampstead,
Hertfordshire
, Inventory number 116 (as
Portrait of Cornelius van Hooft
)
1838: inherited by John Egerton, Viscount Alford (1812-1851), Ashridge Park, Berkhampstead,
Hertfordshire
date QS:P,+1895-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1895-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Rodolphe Kann (1845-1905),
Paris
from 1905 until 1907
date QS:P,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1907-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: the estate of Rodolphe Kann
1907: purchased by Duveen Brothers,
London
/
Paris
/
New York City
, from the estate of Rodolphe Kann
date QS:P,+1851-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
-1924),
New York City
, from Duveen Brothers,
London
/
Paris
/
New York City
1924: inherited by Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955), New York
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Exhibition history |
Pictures by Rubens, Rembrandt, Vandyke, and Other Artists of the Flemish and Dutch Schools
, British Institution,
London
, May 1815, cat.
no.
39, as
Portrait of Peter Cornelius Van Hooft
, lent by Sir A. Hume.
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Credit line | Purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art with support of friends of the Museum | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions |
Signature and date bottom left:
Rembrandt. f. / 1653
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References |
Metropolitan Museum of Art : entry 437394 as Aristotle with a Bust of Homer , 143.5 × 136.5 cm (56.4 × 53.7 in) RKDimages, Art-work number 53707 , as Aristotle with a bust of Homer , 143.5 × 136.5 cm (56.4 × 53.7 in) Rembrandt Database , as Aristotle with a bust of Homer , 143.5 × 136.5 cm (56.4 × 53.7 in).Web Gallery of Art , as Aristotle with a Bust of Homer , 144 × 137 cm (56.6 × 53.9 in). |
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Source/Photographer | Unknown source Unknown source | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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