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- Title
A NOTE ON REMBRANDT'S ARISTOTLE, ALEXANDER, AND HOMER.
- Authors
Giltaij, Jeroen
- Abstract
Although Walter Liedtke's catalogue of Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes an extensive entry about Rembrandt's Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, dated 1653 and ordered by the Sicilian nobleman Antonio Ruffo, he could not mention everything. This short note calls attention to an inventory of the collection of Antonio Ruffo from 1783, published by Rosanna De Gennaro, made after the earthquake of that year, with an extensive description of three paintings by Rembrandt. This article considers the implications of the 1783 inventory description for the history of the Aristotle and related works commissioned by Ruffo.
- Subjects
ART catalogs; DUTCH painting; LIEDTKE, Walter, 1946-2015; METROPOLITAN Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Publication
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2017, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1949-9833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5092/jhna.2017.9.1.14