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Rembrandt: Homer  wikidata:Q11710021 reasonator:Q11710021
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
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Homer
Series title Aristotle with a Bust of Homer Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description

One of two surviving painting of a series of seven by Rembrandt, Guercino, Mattia 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 Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1663
date QS:P571,+1663-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 107 cm (42.1 in); width: 82 cm (32.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,107U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,82U174728
institution QS:P195,Q221092
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
date QS:P,+1680-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
-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
date QS:P,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: 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
date QS:P,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Sir Abraham Hume (1749-1838), Ashridge, Category:Hertfordshire (as Homer Dictating his poems) by 1885
date QS:P,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: S.T. Smith (art dealer), London
by 1894
date QS:P,+1894-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1894-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: T. Humphrey Ward & Son (art dealer), London

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

from 1894 until 1946
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1894-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1946-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: 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 AnonymousUnknown author, Mauritshuis online catalogue, as Homer, height: 107 cm (42.1 in); width: 82 cm (32.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,107U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,82U174728
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AnonymousUnknown author, RKDimages, Art-work number 2939, as Homer, height: 107 cm (42.1 in); width: 82 cm (32.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,107U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,82U174728
AnonymousUnknown author, The Rembrandt Database, as Homer, height: 107 cm (42.1 in); width: 82 cm (32.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,107U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,82U174728
. AnonymousUnknown author, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 20186201, as Homer, height: 108 cm (42.5 in); width: 82.4 cm (32.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,108U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,82.4U174728

AnonymousUnknown author ([circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
]) Mauritshuis. The Hague. Holland, 's-Gravenhage: De Groot & Dijkhoff, [p. 29], as Homer, with image in black and white.
Source/Photographer Unknown sourceUnknown 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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