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Rembrandt: The Circumcision  wikidata:Q20177576 reasonator:Q20177576
Artist
Rembrandt or workshop  (1606–1669)  wikidata:Q5598 s:en:Author:Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn q:en:Rembrandt
 
Rembrandt or workshop
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 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)
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Title
The Circumcision
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
circumcision of Jesus Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1661
date QS:P571,+1661-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 56.5 cm (22.2 in); width: 75 cm (29.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,56.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,75U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Current location
West Building, ground floor, room 51
Accession number
1942.9.60
Place of creation Amsterdam
Object history by 1661
date QS:P,+1661-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1661-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Lodewijck van Ludick (1607-1669), Amsterdam
by 1669
date QS:P,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680), Amsterdam
by 1707
date QS:P,+1707-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1707-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Isaak van den Blooken, Northern Netherlands

11 May 1707: sale of the collection of Isaak van den Blooken at Jan Pietersz. Zomer, Amsterdam, lot no. 1

by 1723
date QS:P,+1723-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1723-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1660-1723) (?)

March 1724: sale of the collection of the Duke of Ancaster , lot no. 18

by 14 February 1745
date QS:P,+1745-02-14T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1745-02-14T00:00:00Z/11
: Andrew Hay
from 14 February 1745 until 15 February 1745
date QS:P,+1745-02-00T00:00:00Z/10,P580,+1745-02-14T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1745-02-15T00:00:00Z/11
: sale of the collection of Andrew Hay at Cock, London, lot no. 47
by 1746
date QS:P,+1746-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1746-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer (1734-1783), Althorp, Northamptonshire
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: inherited by George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), Althorp, Northamptonshire
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: inherited by John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782-1845), Althorp, Northamptonshire
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: inherited by Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798-1857), Althorp, Northamptonshire
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: inherited by John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910), Althorp, Northamptonshire
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: acquired by Arthur J. Sulley & Co., London
by 1912
date QS:P,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Peter Arrell Brown Widener (1834-1915), Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Unknown date
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: inherited by Joseph Early Widener (1871-1943), Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
1942: given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition history

National Exhibition of Works of Art, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, 1868, cat. no.  735, p. 50, as REMBRANDT...Van Rhyn [...] The Circumcision [...] Earl of Spencer.
Rembrandt. Schilderijen bijeengebracht ter gelegenheid van de inhuldiging van Hare Majesteit Koningin Wilhelmina, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 8 September 1898–November 1898, cat. no.  115.
Exhibition of Works by Rembrandt. Winter exhibition, thirteenth year, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2 January 1899–11 March 1899, cat. no.  5.
Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art, 1969, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cat.no. 22.
レンブラント.巨匠とその周辺 [Rembrandt and the Bible], Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, 6 January 1987–1 February 1987, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 7 February 1987–22 March 1987, cat. no.  11.
A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 17 May 1998–9 August 1998, ISBN 978-0894682353, cat. no.  46, with image.
Rembrandt in der Albertina, 26 March 2004–27 June 2004, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Cat.no. 134.
Rembrandt. Zoektocht van een genie, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 1 April 2006–2 July 2006, ISBN 90-400-9165-X, ill. 209.
Rembrandt - Genie auf der Suche, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 4 August 2006–5 November 2006, not in catalog.

Rembrandt, Pintor de historias, 15 October 2008–6 January 2009, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Cat.no. 39.
Inscriptions

Signature and date bottom right:

Rembrandt. f. 1661
References National Gallery of Art online catalogue, as Rembrandt, The Circumcision, height: 56.5 cm (22.2 in); width: 75 cm (29.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,56.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,75U174728
. RKDimages, Art-work number 51573, as Rembrandt or workshop, De Besnijdenis, height: 56.6 cm (22.2 in); width: 75 cm (29.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,56.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,75U174728
Source/Photographer The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.
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