File:Scholar at his desk (1631), by Rembrandt van Rijn.jpg

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Summary

Rembrandt: Portrait of a Man at a Writing Desk, possibly Jacob Bruyningh   
Artist
Rembrandt  (1606–1669)    
 
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
artist QS:P170,Q5598
Title
Portrait of a scholar
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait d’un savant"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van een geleerde"
label QS:Lru,"Портрет учёного"
label QS:Lde,"Porträt eines Gelehrten"
label QS:Lpt,"Retrato de um estudante"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of a scholar"
label QS:Lfa,"چهرهٔ یک عالم"
label QS:Lmk,"Портрет на учен"
Object type painting 
Genre portrait 
Description
English: In the first decade of his life in Amsterdam, to which the young Rembrandt moved from Leiden in 1631, he gained initial fame as a portrait painter. The man depicted in the Hermitage portrait is no sitter posing for the artist: his head turned as if distracted from his work for just a moment, the scholar looks out at the viewer with slightly confused eyes. The hand with its silver pencil has frozen briefly, while the other holds a large folio. Rembrandt pays great attention to the texture of the thick tablecloth, the heavy bindings of the books. We are amazed by the skill with which the young artist paints the tired, swollen hands of the old scholar, with light, short strokes creating the effect of fine, dry, yellowish skin. The large figure in the dark is set off softly by the greyish-green background; he is surrounded by unbroken silence, his work interrupted for just this one second. The man's inner concentration, his total immersion in his work were well understood by Rembrandt, whose works reveal a great interest in the image of the philosopher, the scholar, the calligrapher. Here we see the first of a series of works in which the artist was to concentrate on the spiritual world of his sitters.[1]
Date 1631
date QS:P571,+1631-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 104.5 cm (41.1 in); width: 92 cm (36.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,104.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,92U174728
institution QS:P195,Q132783
Accession number
744
Place of creation Netherlands 
Object history by 1769
date QS:P,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Dresden

1769: purchased by Catherine II of Russia at Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Dresden

by 1916
date QS:P,+1916-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1916-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Hermitage, inv.no. 808, St. Petersburg
by 2009
date QS:P,+2009-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2009-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Hermitage, inv.no. 744, St. Petersburg
Exhibition history Rembrandt in der Albertina, 26 March 2004–27 June 2004, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Cat.no. 79.
Inscriptions

Monogram and date bottom right:

RHL / 1631
References

RKDimages, Art-work number 33854, as Portrait of a man at a writing-desk, 104.4 × 91.8 cm (41.1 × 36.1 in)

Web Gallery of Art, as A Scholar, 105 × 92 cm (41.3 × 36.2 in).
Source/Photographer www.hermitagemuseum.org : Home : Info
Other versions
File:Rembrandt - A Scholar - WGA19200.jpg
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File:Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - A Scholar.JPG

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