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Portrait of Dirck van Os
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)

Title

Portrait of Dirck van Os

Artist

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)

Date

c. 1658

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

40 3/4 × 34 1/2 in. (103.5 × 87.6 cm)

Classification

Painting

Credit Line

Museum purchase

Object Number

1942.30

On View

On view

Provenance

Dr. Oxhotchinsky, St. Petersburg, Russian, by 1898;
Purchased from Dr. Oxhotchinsky by Blakeslee Galleries, New York, 1898–1899;
Purchased from Blakeslee Galleries by Frederick Richard Sears (1824–1907), Boston, 1899.
With Schneider-Gabriel Galleries, New York, by June 27, 1942;
Purchased from Schneider-Gabriel Galleries, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1942.

Exhibition History

Paintings by the Great Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, New York, Duveen Galleries, October 8–November 7, 1942, no. 52.

Paintings by the Great Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, Art Institute of Chicago, November 18–December 16, 1942, no. 32.

Notable Collections at Joslyn, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 30, 1956–January 1, 1957.

Stories of a Collection, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, August 28–October 3, 1999.

Rembrandt Rembrandt, Kyoto National Museum, November 3, 2002–January 13, 2003.

Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.

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Alison M. Kettering, “Master of the New Land: Rembrandt’s Portrait of dijkgraaf Dirck van Os,” Oud Holland 130 (2017): 15–36, (repro.).

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