Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US
Rembrandt, 1653
Baroque
Tenebrism
oil
canvas
portrait
history painting
This picture was painted in 1653 for the Sicilian nobleman Don Antonio Ruffo (1610/11–1678) and sent from Amsterdam to his palace in Messina during the summer of 1654. Later Ruffo also ordered companion paintings from Rembrandt. They are the Alexander the Great of 1661 (now lost) and the fragmentary Homer (Mauritshuis, The Hague), dated 1663.
