Head of a Boy, Rembrandt van Rijn (circle of), after 1643

Title(s)

Head of a Boy

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-2391

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Rembrandt geretuceer ... Lieve ... [sporen van een datum]’

Description

Jongenskopje. Buste van een jongen met lang krullend haar, naar rechts.

Artist

• painter: Rembrandt van Rijn (circle of)

Dating

after 1643

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

• panel
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

height 27.5 cm × width 20 cm
depth 5.5 cm

What

• boy (child between toddler and youth)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Acquisition

purchase May-1909

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Rembrandt in perspectief : de veranderende visie op de meester en zijn werk, p. 282, afb. 9.22
• 125 jaar openbaar kunstbezit : met steun van de Vereniging Rembrandt, p. 57, 211
• All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, p. 77
• A corpus of Rembrandt paintings, J. Bruyn, D. Cook-Radmore, Karin Groen, L. Peese Binkhorst-Hoffscholte, Ernst van de Wetering
• Rembrandt geretucee ... Lieve?, Arie Wallert, afb. 1-6
• The Rembrandt Database, Object information, school ofschool vanRembrandt, or circle ofof omgeving vanRembrandt, Bust of a boy, ca. 1643, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. SK-A-2391, http://www.rembrandtdatabase.org/Rembrandt/painting/4096/bust-of-a-boy, accessed 2016 February 01