Ferdinand Bol

An Astronomer



Ferdinand Bol - An Astronomer



Ferdinand Bol
An Astronomer
1652
127 x 135 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed on a paper below left: fBol feci(t)/1652 (fB in monogram)
The National Gallery, London


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Blankert 1982 70
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler I, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 127

Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 30-31, plate 25
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 45

Literature
Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 104
David de Witt, Leonore van Sloten, Jaap van der Veen, Rembrandt's Late Pupils, Amsterdam, 2015, fig. 3.24


Exhibitions

2019 Inside Rembrandt 1606-1669, Nr. 53

Provenance

Exhibited for sale by private contract with other paintings belonging to J. Hickman in Edinburgh in or after 1802
National Gallery, London, presented by Miss E.A. Benett, 1862
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External links

National Gallery, London Accession number NG679

Other works by Ferdinand Bol


Ferdinand Bol Portrait of a Woman
Portrait of a Woman

Ferdinand Bol Portrait of a man
Portrait of a man
1663

Ferdinand Bol Amor and Venus
Amor and Venus

Ferdinand Bol Aeneas at the Court of Latinus
Aeneas at the Court of Latinus

Ferdinand Bol Consul Titus Manlius Torquatus Beheading His Son
Consul Titus Manlius Torquatus Beheading His Son