Titus van Rijn (?), the Artist’s Son, Reading
about 1656/57 | Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Born in 1641, Titus was the only one of Rembrandt’s four children by his first wife, Saskia, to reach adulthood. He died in 1668, a year before his father, whose affairs he had managed. The picture is not a portrait in the narrow sense of the word; the real theme is the intimate situation of reading. The lighting is used as a means of intensifying the expression in the painting: certain parts of the young man’s face as well as his hand and the book have been highlighted against the darkness.
Born in 1641, Titus was the only one of Rembrandt’s four children by his first wife, Saskia, to reach adulthood. He died in 1668, a year before his father, whose affairs he had managed. The picture is not a portrait in the narrow sense of the word; the real theme is the intimate situation of reading. The lighting is used as a means of intensifying the expression in the painting: certain parts of the young man’s face as well as his hand and the book have been highlighted against the darkness.
Artist:
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606 Leiden - 1669 Amsterdam) DNB
Depiction/Person:
Titus Sohn d. Rembrandt van Rijn (1641 - 1668) DNB
Time:
about 1656/57
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Dutch
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
rechts etwas beschnitten: slightly cut on the right: 71,5 cm × 64,5 cm
Framed: 92 cm × 86,5 cm × 6,5 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 410
Provenance
1720 documented in the gallery