Category:Portrait of Polish Nobleman by Rembrandt

**A Polish Nobleman**
	painting by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art
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Instance of	painting;
Depicts	man and Szlachta
Made from material	oil paint; panel (painting support);
Genre	portrait;
Location	National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., District of Columbia
Creator	Rembrandt;
Owned by	Jan Dzierżysław Tarnowski; Johann Karl Philipp von Cobenzl (1765–1768); Catherine II of Russia (1768–);
Collection	National Gallery of Art;
Inventory number	1937.1.78 (National Gallery of Art);
Inception	1637;
Width	66 cm;
Height	96.8 cm;
	38° 53′ 29.29″ N, 77° 01′ 12.04″ W
Authority file
	Q9351747; BabelNet ID: 14358257n; Google Arts & Culture asset ID: mgEdayYwbOd8mA
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Portrait of Polish Nobleman by Rembrandt

Rembrandt: A Polish Nobleman

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

A Polish Nobleman

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

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

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

height: 96.8 cm (38.1 in)

; width: 66 cm (25.9 in)

Collection

National Gallery of Art

	Native name	National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
	Location	Washington, D.C., United States of America
	Coordinates	38° 53′ 29″ N, 77° 01′ 12″ W
	Established	17 March 1941
	Website	www.nga.gov
	Authority file	: Q214867 VIAF: 3064149198328574940008 ISNI: 0000000123753994 ULAN: 500115983 LCCN: n79054426 NAID: 10479068 WorldCat

Current location

West Building, ground floor, room 48

Accession number

1937.1.78 (National Gallery of Art)

Object location

38° 53′ 29.3″ N, 77° 01′ 12″ W

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Object history

Provenance

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: 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

Media in category "Portrait of Polish Nobleman by Rembrandt"

The following 7 files are in this category, out of 7 total.

Rembrandt van Rijn, A Polish Nobleman, 1637, NGA 85.jpg 2,735 × 4,000; 8.88 MB
Rembrandt van Rijn - A Polish nobleman.jpg 3,259 × 4,781; 5.06 MB
Rembrandt. A Polish Nobleman. 1637.PNG 600 × 893; 1.03 MB
King Johann, 3rd, of Poland, Russia LOC hec.13535.jpg 8,139 × 10,254; 10.77 MB
King Johann, 3rd, of Poland, Russia LOC hec.13535.tif 8,139 × 10,254; 159.2 MB
Rembrandt - his life, his work, and his time (1903) (14804913143).jpg 2,152 × 3,160; 646 KB
Rembrandt van Rijn - A Polish noblemanFXD.jpg 3,259 × 4,781; 3.62 MB

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