Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Portrait of Marten Looten1632

On view:

Geffen Galleries

Oil painting portrait, three-quarter length view of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed black hat and white collar, holding a handwritten letter

Artist or Maker: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Northern Netherlands, 1606-1669
Title: Portrait of Marten Looten
Date Made: 1632
Medium: Oil on wood panel
Dimensions: Panel: 36 1/2 × 30 in. (92.71 × 76.2 cm) Framed: 44 × 47 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (111.76 × 120.65 × 8.26 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of J. Paul Getty
Accession Number: 53.50.3
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography: Schama, Simon. Rembrandt's Eyes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
Schwartz, Gary. Rembrandt: His Life, His Paintings: a New Biography with all Accessible Paintings Illustrated in Colour. New York: Viking, 1985.
Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. West Germany: Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
Valentiner, W.R. Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt. Los Angeles: Anderson & Ritchie, 1947.
Catalogue of Paintings II: Flemish, German, Dutch and English Paintings XV-XVIII Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1954.
Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
Lammertse, Friso, and Jaap Van Der Veen. Uylenburgh & Son: Art and Commerce from Rembrandt to De Lairesse, 1625-1675. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2006.
Muchnic, Suzanne. LACMA So Far: Portrait of a Museum in the Making. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2015.
The J. Paul Getty Museum: Handbook of the Collections. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.
Bredius, A. Rembrandt: the Complete Edition of the Paintings. London: Phaidon Press, 1969.
Straten, Roelof van. Young Rembrandt: the Leiden Years, 1606-1632. Leiden: Foleor Publishers, 2005.
Manuth, Volker, Marieke de Winkel, and Rudie van Leeuwen. Rembrandt: the Complete Paintings. Cologne: Taschen GmbH, 2019.
Dickey, Stephanie S., and Jochen Sander, editors. Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada; Frankfurt Am Main: Städel Museum, 2021.
Raguin, Virginia Chieffo. Stained Glass before 1700 in the Collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Vol. 2, J. Paul Getty Museum. London: Harvey Miller Publishers for American Corpus Vitrearum, Inc, 2024.
Bauch, Kurt. Rembrandt Gemälde. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1966.

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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Portrait of Marten Looten1632

On view:

Geffen Galleries

Artist or Maker: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Northern Netherlands, 1606-1669
Title: Portrait of Marten Looten
Date Made: 1632
Medium: Oil on wood panel
Dimensions: Panel: 36 1/2 × 30 in. (92.71 × 76.2 cm) Framed: 44 × 47 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (111.76 × 120.65 × 8.26 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of J. Paul Getty
Accession Number: 53.50.3
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography: Schama, Simon. Rembrandt's Eyes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
Schwartz, Gary. Rembrandt: His Life, His Paintings: a New Biography with all Accessible Paintings Illustrated in Colour. New York: Viking, 1985.
Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. West Germany: Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
Valentiner, W.R. Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt. Los Angeles: Anderson & Ritchie, 1947.
Catalogue of Paintings II: Flemish, German, Dutch and English Paintings XV-XVIII Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1954.
Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
Lammertse, Friso, and Jaap Van Der Veen. Uylenburgh & Son: Art and Commerce from Rembrandt to De Lairesse, 1625-1675. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2006.
Muchnic, Suzanne. LACMA So Far: Portrait of a Museum in the Making. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2015.
The J. Paul Getty Museum: Handbook of the Collections. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.
Bredius, A. Rembrandt: the Complete Edition of the Paintings. London: Phaidon Press, 1969.
Straten, Roelof van. Young Rembrandt: the Leiden Years, 1606-1632. Leiden: Foleor Publishers, 2005.
Manuth, Volker, Marieke de Winkel, and Rudie van Leeuwen. Rembrandt: the Complete Paintings. Cologne: Taschen GmbH, 2019.
Dickey, Stephanie S., and Jochen Sander, editors. Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada; Frankfurt Am Main: Städel Museum, 2021.
Raguin, Virginia Chieffo. Stained Glass before 1700 in the Collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Vol. 2, J. Paul Getty Museum. London: Harvey Miller Publishers for American Corpus Vitrearum, Inc, 2024.
Bauch, Kurt. Rembrandt Gemälde. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1966.

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