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Rembrandt: Head of Christ  wikidata:Q1304358 reasonator:Q1304358
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Rembrandt  (1606–1669)  wikidata:Q5598 s:en:Author:Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn q:en:Rembrandt
 
Rembrandt
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 Edit this at Wikidata 4 October 1669 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Leiden Edit this at Wikidata Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
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)
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artist QS:P170,Q5598
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Title
Head of Christ
Part of Head of Christ Edit this at Wikidata
Series title Head of Christ Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Jesus Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1648
date QS:P571,+1648-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on oak wood
Dimensions height: 25 cm (9.8 in); width: 21.7 cm (8.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,25U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,21.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q165631
Accession number
811C
Object history by 1878
date QS:P,+1878-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1878-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: John Henderson (1797-1878), London from 16 February 1882 until 18 February 1882
date QS:P,+1882-02-00T00:00:00Z/10,P580,+1882-02-16T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1882-02-18T00:00:00Z/11
: sale of the collection of John Henderson at Christie's, London, lot no. 382 (as ‘Rembrandt. 382 Head of a Man with Long Hair, in a brown robe’)
by 1893
date QS:P,+1893-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1893-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Charles Sedelmeyer (art dealer), Paris by 1905
date QS:P,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Rodolphe Kann (1845-1905), Paris from 1905 until 1907
date QS:P,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1907-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: the estate of Rodolphe Kann

1907: purchased by Duveen Brothers, London/Paris/New York City

1907: acquired by Martin Bromberg, Hamburg

1907: given to the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bromberg, Hamburg

from September 1941 until September 1942
date QS:P,+1941-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1941-09-00T00:00:00Z/10,P582,+1942-09-00T00:00:00Z/10
: Flakturm II, Friedrichshain between 11 March 1945 and 7 April 1945
date QS:P,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1945-03-11T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1945-04-07T00:00:00Z/11
: transferred to Schachtanlage Merkers, Merkers

15 April 1945 (?): confiscated by the Americans

17 April 1945: transferred to the Reichsbank, Frankfurt

from 20 August 1945 until 31 August 1945
date QS:P,+1945-08-00T00:00:00Z/10,P580,+1945-08-20T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1945-08-31T00:00:00Z/11
: Central Art Collecting Point Wiesbaden, Landesmuseum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Inventory number WIE 557/3/2

1949: ownership transferred to the state of Hessen by the Americans

11 January 1956: ownership transferred to the city of Berlin

Unknown date: transferred to the Gemäldegalerie Dahlem, Dahlem

12 December 1959: stolen

22 October 1961: recovered from Braunschweig Hauptbahnhof, Brunswick

from 1998
date QS:P,+1998-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1998-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Gemäldegalerie, Kulturforum, Berlin
Exhibition history

Rembrandt und seine Zeit. Zweihundert Gemälde der Blütezeit der holländischen Barockmalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts aus deutschem, holländischem und schweizerischem Museums- und Privatbesitz, Muzeum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, 10 April 1949–2 October 1949, cat. no.  137.

Meisterwerke aus den Berliner Museen und Schlössern. Gemälde alter Meister, Gemälde des 19. Jahrhunderts, Museum Dahlem, Berlin, 9 May 1953–November 1953, cat. no.  50.

Rembrandt. Gedächtnis-Ausstellung. 1606-1669. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Radierungen, Museum Dahlem, Berlin, 27 May 1956–15 July 1956, cat. no.  19.

Rembrandt. Zoektocht van een genie, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 1 April 2006–2 July 2006, ISBN 90-400-9165-X, cat. no.  64.

Rembrandt - Genie auf der Suche, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 4 August 2006–5 November 2006, cat. no.  57.

Rembrandt et la nouvelle Jérusalem. Juifs et chrétiens à Amsterdam au siècle d'or, Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme, Paris, 28 March 2007–1 July 2007, ISBN 9782755702439, cat. no.  107.

Rembrandt, Pintor de historias, 15 October 2008–6 January 2009, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Cat.no. 29.

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, ISBN 978-88-89854-71-6, cat. no.  35.
References RKDimages, Art-work number 202397, as Rembrandt, Head of Christ, circa 1648
date QS:P,+1648-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(1645-1655), height: 25 cm (9.8 in); width: 21.7 cm (8.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,25U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,21.7U174728
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 02552505, as School of Rembrandt, Christuskopf, height: 25 cm (9.8 in); width: 21.7 cm (8.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,25U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,21.7U174728

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 00020137, as School of Rembrandt, Christuskopf, height: 25 cm (9.8 in); width: 21.7 cm (8.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,25U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,21.7U174728

Web Gallery of Art, as Rembrandt, Young Jew as Christ, circa 1656
date QS:P,+1656-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
, height: 25 cm (9.8 in); width: 21.5 cm (8.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,25U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,21.5U174728
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