File:Hendrik ter Brugghen - Heraclitus.jpg

Summary

Hendrick ter Brugghen: Heraclitus

Artist



Alternative names	Hendrick Jansz. ter Brugghen, Hendrick Terbrugghen
Description	Dutch painter
Date of birth/death	1588	1 November 1629
Location of birth/death	The Hague	Utrecht
Work period	1616-1629
Work location	Utrecht (1591), Italy (ca. 1605-1614), Utrecht (1615-1629)
Authority file	: Q437233 VIAF: 178149066512165601182 ISNI: 0000000081266572 ULAN: 500029568 LCCN: nr88003650 WGA: t/terbrugg WorldCat

Title

Heraclitus

Object type

painting

Description

Heraclitus, talking and gesturing while he is leaning on a globe with his right arm.

Date

1628

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 85.5 cm (33.6 in) ; width: 70 cm (27.5 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

Room 2.1

Accession number

SK-A-2784 (Rijksmuseum)

Object history

by 1916: Asscher, Koetser & Welker (art dealer), Amsterdam

January 1916: given to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, by Asscher, Koetser & Welker, Amsterdam

from 1924 until 1936: lent to the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam

Exhibition history

Rijksmuseum on the Scheldt. Masterpieces from the treasure-house of the Netherlands/Rijksmuseum aan de Schelde. Meesterwerken uit de schatkamer van Nederland, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, 9 October 2004–31 December 2007.

Portraits de la pensée, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, 11 February 2011–13 June 2011, ISBN 9782350391120, p. 148-151, cat. no. 58.

Inscriptions

Signature and date top right:

HTBrugghen fecit 1628

References

AnonymousUnknown author, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as Heraclitus.

AnonymousUnknown author, RKDimages, Art-work number 1134, as The weeping philosopher Heraclitus

Anonymous (1934) Catalogus der schilderijen pastels–miniaturen–aquarellen tentoongesteld in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam, Amsterdam: J.H. de Bussy, p. 66, cat. no. 656B, as Heraclitus.

Pieter J. J. van Thiel et al. (1976) All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Maarssen: Gary Schwartz, ISBN 90-6179-010-7, p. 155, with image in black and white.

Source/Photographer

www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info

Other versions

File:Heraclitus Rijksmuseum SK-A-2784.jpeg
Later version from www.rijksmuseum.nl

File:Rijksmuseum.amsterdam (66) (15195464645).jpg
Version with frame

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