Christ with Arms Folded

Artist Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Dateca. 1657 - 1661

Place of OriginNetherlands

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsStretcher: 43 × 35 1/2 in. (109.2 × 90.2 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 53 × 45 3/4 × 5 in. (134.6 × 116.2 × 12.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineThe Hyde Collection Trust, 1952

Object number1971.37

On View

On view

Collections

European Paintings & Sculpture

DescriptionHalf-length 3/4 view figure of Christ with his arms folded across his mid-torso, the right hand fully visible above the left arm seen only as a sleeve. The head tips slightly to the right but is facing toward the left and the viewer. The figure wears a dark brown robe over a red-brown garment. He is bearded with long hair falling over his right shoulder.Exhibition HistoryThe Austrian Museum, Vienna, 1873.

Palais du Corps Legislatif, Paris, 1874.

Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, ca. 1930.

"Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800, Masterpieces of Art, New York World's Fair", New York World's Fair,1939.

"Paintings by the Great Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century," Duveen Galleries, New York, October 8 - November 7, 1942.

"Five Centuries of Dutch Art," Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, March 9 - April 9, 1944.

"Rembrandt Paintings and Etchings," Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 19 - November 27, 1948.

"Rembrandt's Christ in Thirteen Paintings and One Etching," The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, 1968.

"Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits," National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, January 30 - May 1, 2005; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, June 7- August 28, 2005.

"Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus," Musee du Louvre, April 18 - July 18, 2011; Philadelphia Museum of Art, July 28 - Oct. 30, 2011; Detroit Institute of Arts, Nov. 20, 2011 - Feb. 12, 2012.

ProvenanceRome, Italy, Collection of Cardinal Joseph Fesch (1763 – 1839)
1845, Rome, Italy, Palais Ricci auction
until 1873, Paris, France, De Forcade
Paris, France, Collection of Charles Sedelmeyer (1837 – 1925)
ca. 1900, St. Peterburg, Russia, Count Alexander Orloff Davidoff (Anatoly Orlov-Davydov)
1918, Petrograd, Russia, the Soviet State (nationalized)
by 1927, Moscow, Russia, Pushkin State Museum
1933, Berlin, Germany, sale through Van Dieman Galleries
1933, Glens Falls, NY, Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Hyde
1952, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust