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Portrait of Clement de Jonghe

Portrait of Clement de Jonghe

Artist/Maker (Dutch, 1606–1669)
Date1651
MediumEtching and drypoint
DimensionsImage: 8 3/16 × 6 3/8 in. (20.8 × 16.2 cm)
Sheet: 8 5/16 × 10 7/16 in. (21.1 × 26.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Max Kade Foundation
Object number1967.45
Status
Not on view
More Information
Several successive states, or working stages, of this print reveal Rembrandt's quest for balancing light and dark within the composition, particularly in the bold frontal massing of the body. Subtly half-lit features, cast into shadow by the broad-brimmed hat, reveal the sitter's active intellect. De Jonghe (1624/5–1677) was a publisher and print seller in Amsterdam. Rembrandt's likeness contains no overt references to his sitter's profession, but presents him simply as an elegant gentleman.
Exhibition History
Seventeenth Century Dutch Prints
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 13, 1987 - April 26, 1987 )
Northern Renaissance Prints and Drawings
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (November 6, 1990 - January 27, 1991 )
Netherlandish Portrait Prints from the Allen Memorial Art Museum Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 20, 1993 - May 30, 1993 )
Rembrandt's 'Portrait of Joris de Caullery' in Context
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 14, 1998 - May 31, 1998 )
Teaching Exhibition: European and American Prints from the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 17, 2005 - December 23, 2005 )
Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt's Etchings
  • Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (September 23, 2017 - December 17, 2017 )
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 6, 2018 - May 13, 2018 )
Collections
  • European
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