Rembrandt and assistant

Portrait of Frederick Rihel on Horseback



Rembrandt and assistant - Portrait of Frederick Rihel on Horseback


The only equestrian portrait painted by Rembrandt. Frederick Rihel was a wealthy Amsterdam businessman.




Rembrandt and assistant
Portrait of Frederick Rihel on Horseback
294.5 x 241 cm
Oil on canvas
The National Gallery, London


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 772
Bredius 255
Bauch 440 info
Gerson 410
Bredius/Gerson 255 info
Tümpel 220
Corpus VI 303 info
Manuth 203 (doubtful)
Giltaij 282 (Rembrandt and workshop)

Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 358-362, plate 294
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 565
David Bomford, Jo Kirby, Ashok Roy, Axel Rüger, Raymond White, Rembrandt, London; [New Haven, Conn.], 2006, nr. 20

Literature
Christopher Brown, Jan Kelch & Pieter van Thiel, Rembrandt, New Haven; London, 1991, fig. 103


Exhibitions

2014 Rembrandt: The Late Works, Nr. 53
1976 Art in 17th-century Holland, Nr. 96
1956 Rembrandt - Paintings, Nr. 59

External links

RKD 34950
National Gallery, London Accession number NG6300

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