Herman Doomer (born about 1595, died 1650)

Painting in frame: overall

Herman Doomer (born about 1595, died 1650)

Painting in frame: corner

Painting in frame: angled corner

 Profile drawing of frame. W 4 3/8 in. 11.1 cm (T. Newbery)

Herman Doomer (born about 1595, died 1650)
Artist:Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
Date:1640
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:29 5/8 x 21 3/4 in. (75.2 x 55.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number:29.100.1
Herman Doomer was a successful cabinetmaker, working in the imported ebony fashionable in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. At roughly the same time that Rembrandt painted this portrait of Doomer and a companion piece of his wife (now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), the couple’s son Lambert was an apprentice in the artist’s studio. The portrait is in an exceptional state of preservation, with bold passages of impasto marking out the sitter’s linen ruff.

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