File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 061.jpg

Summary

Rembrandt: Homer

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

Homer

Series title

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

One of two surviving painting of a series of seven by Rembrandt, Guercino, Matia Preti, Salvator Rosa, and Giacinto Brandi.

Parts were removed from all four sides as a result of fire damage, following an earthquake that struck Antonio Ruffo's palace in Messina in 1783. Only two fingers remained of the pupils that were present in the complete painting.

Depicted people

Homer

Date

1663

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 107 cm (42.1 in); width: 82 cm (32.2 in)

Collection

Mauritshuis (Inventory)

	Native name	Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
	Location	Korte Vijverberg 8, The Hague
	Coordinates	52° 04′ 49.4″ N, 4° 18′ 51.5″ E
	Established	1822
	Website	mauritshuis.nl
	Authority file	: Q221092 VIAF: 134457328 ISNI: 000000012288890X ULAN: 500307433 LCCN: n79026755 GND: 62314-3 WorldCat

Accession number

584

Place of creation

Amsterdam

Object history

Unknown date: commissioned by Don Antonio Ruffo, principe della Scaletta (1610/1611-1678), Messina

1678: inherited by Alfonsina Gotho (....-1689), Messina

Unknown date: inherited by Don Placido Ruffo, principe della Scaletta (1646-1710), Messina
1710: inherited by Don Antonio Ruffo (II), principe della Scaletta (circa 1680-1739), Messina
Unknown date: inherited by Don Calogero Ruffo, principe della Scaletta, Messina

1750: inherited by Don Giovanni Ruffo e la Rocca, principe della Scaletta, Messina

1756: inherited by Antonio Ruffo (....-1778), Messina

by 1783: Giovanni Ruffo, Messina

17 February 1810: anonymous sale at Christie's, London (auction house), lot no. 117, for £32.11s (as A schoolmaster with his pupil)

by 1824: Sir Abraham Hume (1749-1838), Ashridge, Hertfordshire (as Homer Dictating his poems) by 1885: S.T. Smith (art dealer), London
by 1894: T. Humphrey Ward & Son (art dealer), London

1894: acquired by Abraham Bredius (1855-1946), The Hague

from 1894 until 1946: lent to the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, by Abraham Bredius, The Hague
1946: bequeathed to the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, by Abraham Bredius, The Hague

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. 117.

Bredius, Rembrandt en het Mauritshuis!!! Een eigenzinnige directeur verzamelt, 1991, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague, cat. no. 13.

Liefde, list en lijden, 1993, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague, Cat.no. 33.

Een zomer met Rembrandt, 26 June 2006–24 September 2006, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague.

Meesters uit het Mauritshuis. Zes eeuwen kunst onder een dak, 28 April 2012–30 June 2014, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague.

Inscriptions

Signature and date top right:

[Rembr]andt. f 1663

References

Anonymous, Mauritshuis online catalogue, as Homer, height: 107 cm (42.1 in); width: 82 cm (32.2 in).
Anonymous, RKDimages, Art-work number 2939, as Homer, height: 107 cm (42.1 in); width: 82 cm (32.2 in) Anonymous, The Rembrandt Database, as Homer, height: 107 cm (42.1 in); width: 82 cm (32.2 in). Anonymous, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 20186201, as Homer, height: 108 cm (42.5 in); width: 82.4 cm (32.4 in)
Anonymous ([circa 1900]) Mauritshuis. The Hague. Holland, 's-Gravenhage: De Groot & Dijkhoff, [p. 29], as Homer, with image in black and white.

Source/Photographer

Unknown source

Other versions

File:Rembrandt Homer Dictating his Verses.jpg
Version from Geheugen van Nederland

File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 061 black and white.jpg
Version in black and white from mus.cat., c. 1900

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	08:00, 11 June 2013		2,286 × 3,000 (6.05 MB)	Jan Arkesteijn	higher resolution
	03:17, 21 May 2005		2,024 × 2,673 (397 KB)	File Upload Bot (Eloquence)	{{Painting\| \|Title=<br /> ''de:'' Homer \|Technique=<br /> ''de:'' Öl auf Leinwand \|Dimensions=<br /> ''de:'' 108 × 82,4 cm \|Location=<br /> ''de:'' Den Haag \|Country=<br /> ''de:'' Niederlande (Holland) \|Gallery=<br /> ''de:'' Königli

Image title	Homer oil on canvas 107 x 82 cm signed : [Rembr]andt. f 1663
Author	Rembrandt
Copyright holder	Mauritshuis, The Hague
Short title	Homer, by Rembrandt
Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	71.215 dpi
Vertical resolution	71.215 dpi
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File change date and time	09:54, 11 June 2013
Color space	sRGB
Image width	2,286 px
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Date and time of digitizing	11:54, 11 June 2013
Date metadata was last modified	11:54, 11 June 2013
IIM version	2

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