File:The Apostle Paul - Rembrandt.jpg

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Rembrandt: The Apostle Paul  wikidata:Q20177450 reasonator:Q20177450
Artist
Attributed to Rembrandt  (1606–1669)  wikidata:Q5598 s:en:Author:Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn q:en:Rembrandt
 
Attributed to 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 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
artist QS:P170,Q5598,P5102,Q230768
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The Apostle Paul
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Paul the Apostle Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1657
date QS:P571,+1657-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 131.5 cm (51.7 in); width: 104.4 cm (41.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,131.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,104.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Current location
West Stair Lobby
Accession number
1942.9.59
Object history by 1735
date QS:P,+1735-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1735-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Johan van Schuylenburg (....-1735), The Hague

20 September 1735: sale of the collection of Johan van Schuylenburg at an unknown auction house, The Hague, lot no. 31, for NLG 150 (as ‘Een overheerlyk kragtig en schoon Stuk, door Rynbrand van Ryn, verbeeldende den Apostel Paulus, niet minder als van Titiaan, h. 4, v. 2 d. br. 3 v. 4 en een halve d.)

Unknown date
Unknown date
: acquired by Backer
by 1790
date QS:P,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Pierre-Louis Eveillard (1736-1790), Angers

1791: sale of the collection of Pierre-Louis Eveillard at Sentout, Angers, lot no. 65

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: acquired by (Bartolomeo?) Gamba

17 December 1811: sale of the collection of Gamba at Paillet & Geoffroy, Paris, lot no. 26,

by 1813
date QS:P,+1813-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1813-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Ferdinando Marescalchi (1754-1816), Bologna (as ‘Una mezza figura in grande rappresentante una Persona in meditazione o studiosa, di grande maniera, comprata alla vendita di Monsieur Gamba negozio di Parigi, come dal suo Catalogo. Quadro grande in piedi’)
by 1841
date QS:P,+1841-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1841-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Sir George Hayter (1792-1871), London

3 May 1845: sale of the collection of Sir George Hayter at Christie & Manson, London, lot no. 82 (as ‘Portrait of Cornelius Von Schrevellier’)

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: acquired by Nieuwenhuys
by 1855
date QS:P,+1855-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1855-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: James-Alexandre, comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier (1776-1855), Paris

31 March 1865: sale of the collection of James-Alexandre, comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier at an unknown auction house, Paris, lot no. 182

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: purchased by Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st baron Wimborne (1835-1914), Canford Manor, Dorsetshire, through Otto Mündler, Paris
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: acquired by Arthur J. Sulley & Co., London
by 1912
date QS:P,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Peter Arrell Brown Widener (1834-1915), Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Unknown date
Unknown date
: inherited by Joseph E. Widener (1871-1943), Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
1942: given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., by Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Exhibition history

British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom, London, 1841, cat. no.  71, as Portrait of Cornelius Pietersz Hooft.
Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art, 1969, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cat.no. 17.
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 30 January 2005–1 May 2005, Getty Center, Los Angeles, 7 June 2005–28 August 2005, cat. no.  2.
Rembrandt's Saint Bartholomew, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, 2005–2006, no catalogue.

Rembrandt, Pintor de historias, 15 October 2008–6 January 2009, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Cat.no. 36.
Inscriptions

Signature bottom right:

Rembrandt f
References National Gallery of Art online catalogue, as Rembrandt van Rijn (and Workshop?), The Apostle Paul, circa 1657
date QS:P,+1657-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
. RKDimages, Art-work number 59127, as Attributed to Rembrandt/Circle of Rembrandt, De apostel Paulus zittend aan een schrijftafel, late 1650s
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
/early 1660s
date QS:P,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
(1657-1661)
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