Category:Head of Christ (Rembrandt, Philadelphia)

**Head of Christ**
	painting by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
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Instance of	painting;
Part of	Head of Christ;
Main subject	Jesus;
Depicts	Jesus
Made from material	oil paint; oak panel (painting support);
Genre	religious art;
Location	Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Creator	Rembrandt;
Owned by	John G. Johnson; Charles Sedelmeyer;
Collection	Philadelphia Museum of Art; Charles Sedelmeyer; Charles Sedelmeyer collection;
Inventory number	Cat. 480 (Philadelphia Museum of Art);
Inception	1600s (before 1656, after 1648);
Width	31.2 cm;
Height	35.8 cm;
Religion or worldview	Christianity;
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Head of Christ (Rembrandt, Philadelphia)

Rembrandt: Head of Christ

Artist



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	4 October 1669
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	: Q5598 VIAF: 64013650 ISNI: 0000000121363802 ULAN: 500011051 LCCN: n79142935 NLA: 35139809 MusicBrainz: 561856c5-2f55-4127-8eb9-c19cec9126dc WGA: r/rembrand Open Library: OL18362A DBNL: rijn017 GND: 11859964X SELIBR: 197544 SUDOC: 027341925 BNF: 11940484n BPN: 00010474 NDL: 00453967 BIBSYS: 14058430 NKC: jn20000701488 SBN: CFIV042007 BNE: XX1721483 CiNii: DA00806058 NLP: a0000001179997 KulturNav: 8532f189-bc32-4e33-a39e-feb041f07316 RKD: 66219 J9U: 987007267040905171 Koninklijke: 06866558X Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural: pessoa209978/rembrandt NLK: KAC199622783 WorldCat

Title

Christ

Part of

Head of Christ

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

Bust of Christ in a brown habit, his head slightly turned left. One of a group of paintings depicting Christ in a brown habit. This panel is located in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It has been extended on all sides by laying the original oak panel into a larger oak panel.

Depicted people

Jesus

Date

circa 1648-1656

Medium

oil on oak wood

Dimensions

height: 35.8 cm (14 in); width: 31.2 cm (12.2 in)

Extended on all sides. Original dimensions: 24.7 × 20 cm (9.7 × 7.8 in)

Collection

Philadelphia Museum of Art

	Native name	Philadelphia Museum of Art
	Location	2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States of America
	Coordinates	39° 57′ 57″ N, 75° 10′ 53″ W
	Established	1876
	Website	www.philamuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q510324 VIAF: 137352121 ISNI: 0000000404536400 ULAN: 500214534 LCCN: n79005616 NLA: 35420649 WorldCat

Current location

2^nd floor, Gallery 262

Accession number

480

Place of creation

Amsterdam

Object history

by 1656: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Amsterdam (?) by 1771: Louis-Michel van Loo (1707-1771), Paris (?)

November 1772: sale of the collection of Louis Michel van Loo at Basan, Paris, lot no. 27 (as ‘Rembrandt van Rijn. Hauteur 1 pied 2 pouces, sur 1 pied de large. Le buste de Notre-Seigneur: tout le jour tombe sur la tête, qui, vue de face, est claire & lumineuse, & d'un caractere si pathétique, qu'il est impossible de la regarder sans éprouver la plus vive émotion. Le reste de la figure lui est sacrifié; l'habillement est de couleur brun, & l'on n'apperçoit qu'a paine une partie des deus mains. C'est ainsi que dans ce tableau & dans les deux suivans, Rembrandt a rassemblé toutes les forces de son art pour produire l'illusion.’)

by 1901: Charles Sedelmeyer (art dealer), Paris by 1917: John G. Johnson (1841-1917), Philadelphia April 1917: bequeathed to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, by John G. Johnson, Philadelphia

Exhibition history

Rembrandt et la figure du Christ/Rembrandt and the face of Jesus, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 21 April 2011–18 July 2011, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 3 August 2011–30 October 2011, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 20 November 2011–12 February 2012, ISBN 978-88-89854-71-6, cat. no. 40.

References

Philadelphia Museum of Art, as Rembrandt, Head of Christ.

RKDimages, Art-work number 232218, as Workshop of Rembrandt, Head of Christ

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