The Scholar at the Lectern or The Father of the Jewish Bride is a 1641 oil on panel painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. With The Girl in a Picture Frame (also known as The Jewish Bride) and Landscape with the Good Samaritan, it is one of only three Rembrandt paintings in Polish collections.
Stanis?aw August Poniatowski bought it and The Girl in a Picture Frame in 1777 from El?bieta Henrietta Maria Go?owkin (daughter of Friedrich Paul von Kameke) via the art dealer Jakob Triebel. He initially displayed them at the ?azienki Palace in Warsaw and after his death they both passed to Józef Poniatowski who in 1813 left them to his sister Maria Teresa Poniatowska. In 1815 they were bought by Kazimierz Rzewuski, who gave them to his daughter Ludwika, wife of Antoni Lanckoro?ski. They were later owned by the Lanckoro?ski family, resident in Vienna.
It was considered lost after World War Two and doubts on its authorship first appeared in 1969. It was not included in the 1989 edition of the Rembrandt Research Project. In 1994 Karolina Lanckoro?ska transferred both it and The Girl in the Picture Frame to the Royal Castle, Warsaw, where they still hang. The Project accessed them and their authorship was confirmed in February 2006.
Video The Scholar at the Lectern
Bibliography
- J. Czernichowska, Two paintings by Rembrandt
- (in Polish) Dorota Juszczak, Hanna Ma?achowicz, Galeria Lanckoro?skich. Obrazy z daru Profesor Karoliny Lanckoro?skiej dla Zamku Królewskiego w Warszawie, Warszawa 1998
- https://www.zamek-krolewski.pl/zwiedzanie/archiwum-wystaw-czasowych/portrety.-rembrandt-i...
- (in Polish) Two Rembrandts in the Royal Castle
Maps The Scholar at the Lectern
External links
- http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=120423
- http://swiadectwo1.republika.pl/rembrandt4_1.html
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