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Rembrandt: A Polish Nobleman  wikidata:Q9351747 reasonator:Q9351747
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 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
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
A Polish nobleman
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Half figure of a man in oriental costume. Jan Nowak-Jezioranski identifies him as Andrzej Rej, a grandson of Mikołaj Rej, a leading Polish poet and prose writer of the Renaissance. Andrzej Rej (ca. 1584-1641) was a governor of Libusza, Calvinist activist, and a diplomat who was sent on a diplomatic mission in 1637 to the Danish, Dutch and English courts. Other sources identify the sitter as John III Sobieski, King of Poland.
Date 1637
date QS:P571,+1637-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panelmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 96.8 cm (38.1 in); width: 66 cm (25.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,96.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,66U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Current location
West Building, ground floor, room 48
Accession number
1937.1.78
Object location
38° 53′ 29.3″ N, 77° 01′ 12″ W Edit this at Structured Data on Commons Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object history

Harman van Swol, Amsterdam (?)
20 April 1707: sale of the collection of Harman van Swol at an unknown auction house, Amsterdam, lot no. 15, for NLG 49 (as ‘Een Ambassadeur van Moscovien, van Rembrant kragtig geschildert’) (?)
1765: purchased by Philippus Florentinus Vergeloo, Antwerp, from N.N., Rotterdam, for Count Johan Carl Philipp Cobenzl (1712-1770)
1768: purchased by Catherine II of Russia (1729-1796), Saint Petersburg

by 1931
date QS:P,+1931-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1931-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

1931: purchased by Andrew W. Mellon (1855-1937), Pittsburgh/Washington, D.C.
30 March 1932: given to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh

1937: given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition history Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art, 1969, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cat.no. 3, p. 13.
Inscriptions

Signature and date top right:

Rembrandt.f:. / 1637
References National Gallery of Art online catalogue, as A Polish Nobleman, height: 96.8 cm (38.1 in); width: 66 cm (25.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,96.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,66U174728
. RKDimages, Art-work number 39337, as Half figure of a man in oriental costume, height: 96.7 cm (38 in); width: 66.1 cm (26 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,96.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,66.1U174728
Source/Photographer web
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