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Portrait of Rembrandt's father (according to Dr. A. Bredius)
Lost Art-ID
572300
Artist / Creator
Dou, Gerrit
Birth
1613.04.07, Leiden
Death
(vor) 1675.02.09, Leiden
Place of activity
Leiden
Title
Portrait of Rembrandt's father (according to Dr. A. Bredius)
Dating
1635-1640 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Panel / painted
Measures
48 x 38 cm; 48,5 x 39 cm
Height
47.00 cm
Width
37.00 cm
Description
oval; Portrait of a grumpy older nobleman; Three-quarter turn to the right. Right hand hunched on the hips, the forward left is supported by a stick. A broad-brimmed hat on the head. He wears leatherjackets, a white neck collar, a pelican coat, and a sword. In the background curtain.
Provenance
03.12.1906 Auction Marquis de Forbin-Jonson, Paris, no. 25; 1913 owned by Baron v. Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt / M .; according to the Pantheon purchased from Richard Semmel, Berlin, from this collection (according to RKD, auctioned in Paris by Kunsthaus Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, according to Sotheby's 1976 on 17.06.1910); offered at the auction Muller, Amsterdam 21.11.1933, no. 11, with picture, sold for 5,000 hfl (according to Weltkunst, j. VII, no. 52/53 v. 24.12.1933 and according to letter from Sotheby's, 01.11 .1996); 1963 in the collection Geus van den Heuvel, Nieuwersluis, cat. No. 12; 26th-27th April 1976 at Sotheby, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, Lot 12, estimated price 65,000-75,000hfl; Leiden Collection, New York, Tom Kaplan; Salomon Lillian, The Hague
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