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Rembrandt: Portrait of Maurits Huygens (1595-1642)  wikidata:Q18642311 reasonator:Q18642311
Artist
Rembrandt  (1606–1669)  wikidata:Q5598 s:en:Author:Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn q:en:Rembrandt
 
Rembrandt
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 Edit this at Wikidata 4 October 1669 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Leiden Edit this at Wikidata Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
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
artist QS:P170,Q5598
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Title
Portrait of Maurits Huygens (1595-1642)
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Maurits Huygens Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1632
date QS:P571,+1632-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on oak wood
Dimensions height: 31.1 cm (12.2 in); width: 24.5 cm (9.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,31.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,24.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q169542
Accession number
87
Object history

1632: commissioned by Maurits Huygens (1595-1642), The Hague
27 February 1764: sale of the collection of Allard Rudolph van Waay at an unknown auction house, Utrecht
2 March 1786: sale of the collection of Aubert, Paris, at an unknown auction house, Paris
8 June 1786: sale of the collection of Noel Desenfans, London, at an unknown auction house, London

between 5 November 1804 and 7 November 1804
date QS:P,+1804-11-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1319,+1804-11-05T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1804-11-07T00:00:00Z/11
: purchased by Le Brun at the sale of the collection of Pieter Cornelis Baron van Leyden, Amsterdam, at an unknown auction house, Paris
between 1 April 1870 and 2 April 1870
date QS:P,+1870-04-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1319,+1870-04-01T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1870-04-02T00:00:00Z/11
: purchased by Joh. Wesselhoeft, Hamburg, at the sale of the collection of D. Vis Blokhuysen, Rotterdam, at Hôtel Drouot, Paris
1889: acquired by Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Inscriptions

Signature and date top left:

RH van Rij[n] // 1632
verso [M. Huygens Secretaris vanden Raad van State inden Hage]
Notes
English: The panel used for this painting is from the same tree as the panel used for a self-portrait (see File:Rembrandt van Rijn 176.jpg), which is also dated 1632.
Pendant of: Portrait of Jacob de Gheyn (III) (see File:Rembrandt, Jacob de Gheyn III.jpg)
References RKDimages, Art-work number 32021 Ernst van de Wetering (Ed.): A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings IV. Springer, Dordrecht 2005, ISBN 978-1-4020-4441-0, p. 613; Gary Schwartz
Source/Photographer Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

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