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Johannes Wtenbogaert
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
1633
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 130 cm x width 103 cm x thickness 10 cm x thickness 3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds, the VSBfonds, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, the State of the Netherlands and private collectors
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The Amsterdam merchant Abraham Anthonisz Recht was a convinced Remonstrant and great admirer of Wtenbogaert. He commissioned this portrait from Rembrandt in 1633 and hung it in his home. Wtenbogaert looks at you with a penetrating gaze, he is clearly a man of moral authority. And, a man of the Word, as the open book suggests. But exactly which book it is, remains unknown.
