Portrait of a musician

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1633
Technique / Medium:
oil

    Item location

  • Corcoran Gallery of Art

Description

Although some authorities believe the subject of this painting is Heinrich Schütz, more convincing evidence suggests that this is a painting of the Dutch diplomat, poet and composer Constantijn Huygens (Brook and Oja, p. 135).

People as subjects

Huygens, Constantijn (1596-1687) (Composer)

Musical works

illegible music notation

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Bibliographic references

Brook, Barry S. and Carol Oja. "Rembrandt's Portrait of a Musician", College Music Symposium 18/1 (1978) 133-135. ISSN 0069-5696. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40373926

Sass, Else Kai. Comments on Rembrandt's Passion paintings and Constantijn Huygens iconography, trans. Jean Nixon and David Hohnen (Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1971) 39-61. OCLC 516570.

RIdIM record id

1338