Rembrandt’s Son Titus in a Monk’s Habit

• Rembrandt's son in a monk's habit, possibly in the guise of St Francis of Assisi
• Rembrandt’s Son Titus in a Monk’s Habit
• Titus in Monk's Habit

Rembrandt's son in a monk's habit, possibly in the guise of St Francis of Assisi

SK-A-3138

signature and date: ‘Rembrandt f. 1660’

Rembrandt portrayed his son Titus with downcast eyes and wearing a Franciscan habit. The rules of this monastic order prescribed a life of poverty and humility. Indicative of this are the coarse robe and the introspective gaze on the boy’s gaunt face, on which Rembrandt has focussed all his attention. The surroundings, with rocks and bushes, are only summarily suggested.

Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum (2011), afb. p. 37.

painter: Rembrandt van Rijn (mentioned on object)

1660

olieverf op doek

height 79.5 cm x width 67.7 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1933; formerly Stroganoff Collection, St Petersburg

purchase 1933-07-10

Public domain

...; ? sale, Jean-François Sané (1732-79, Paris), Paris, 8 March 1780, no. 36 (`Un Capucin vu à mi-corps; il paroît réfléchir profondément. Le fond annonce un paysage. Ce Tableau, d´une touche large d´un effet piquant, est peint sur toile par Rembrandt.´), fr. 221, to Joullain; ... ; ? sale, Charles Paul Vialart de Saint-Morys (1743-95, Paris), Paris (A.J. Paillet and A. Millioti), 6 (13) February 1786 sqq., no. 115 (`Rimbrandt van Rhin. Un Réligieux représenté à mi corps & en méditation. Ce tableau, savant de touche; ne laisse aucun doute sur l´originalité, par la hardiesse de son exécution. H. 33 pouces, L. 26 pouces [89.1 x 70.2 cm]. Toile´), fr. 88, to Langlier; …; collection Count Alexander Sergeević Stroganoff (1733-1811), St Petersburg, 1800 ('Portrait d'un jeune homme en habit de St. François'); {Coll. cat. Stroganoff 1800, no. 52; coll. cat. Stroganoff 1807, no. 37; coll. cat. Stroganoff 1835, no. 37; see Jaeger 2007, p. 319.} his son, Count Paul Alexandrović Stroganoff (1772-1817), St Petersburg; his son-in-law, Count Sergej Gregor'ević Stroganoff (1794-1882), St Petersburg; his son, Alexander Sergejević Stroganoff (1818-64), St Petersburg; his son, Sergej Alexandrović Stroganoff (1852-1923), St Petersburg and Paris; confiscated by the Soviet Union 1917; from the Soviet Union, through the mediation of Colnaghi London, fl. 800,000, together with the Rembrandt workshop Denial of St Peter (SK-A-3137/no. XX), to the Vereniging Rembrandt for the museum, 1933{Hecht 2008, p. 85.}

• Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum (2011), afb. p. 37.
• G. Luijten, ''De veelheid en de eelheid' : een Rijksmuseum Schmidt-Degener', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 35 (1984), p. 377, afb. 25.
• M.D. Henkel, Patheon 6 (1933), p. 292.
• P. Hecht, Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt (1999), nr. 3, p. 7.
• Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum (1933), p. 6.
• The Rembrandt Database, Object information, Rembrandt, Titus as a monk, dated 1660, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. SK-A-3138, http://www.rembrandtdatabase.org/Rembrandt/painting/2954/titus-as-a-monk, accessed 2016 February 01
• J. Jager, 'Revolutionaire kunstbuit : Erfgoed of handelswaar?', Spiegel Historiael 36 (2001), nr. 11/12, p. 496-503.
• H. Kühn, 'Untersuchungen zu den Malgründen Rembrandts', Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden Württemberg (1965), p. 198.
• L.J. Slatkes, 'The Age of Rembrandt', The Art Quarterly 31 (1968), p. 89.
• Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, qui composent la collection du Comte A. de Stroganoff, St. Pétersbourg, 1800, cat.nr. 52.

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