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File:JohannesVermeer-TheAstronomer(1668).jpg

Summary

Artist
Title

The astronomer.

Alternative title(s):

L'Astronome ou plutôt L'Astrologue.
L’astrologue, dit aussi L’astronome.
Date 1668
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Height: 51.5 cm (20.3 in). Width: 45.5 cm (17.9 in).
Richelieu, 2nd floor, room 38
Accession number RF 1983-28
Object history

1669 (?): acquired by Adriaen Paets (1631-1686), Rotterdam (?)
1686: inherited by Adriaen Paets (1657-1712), Rotterdam (?)
27 April 1713: anonymous sale at an unknown auction house, Rotterdam
1713 (?): acquired by from Hendrik Sorgh (†1720), Amsterdam
28 March 1720: sale of the collection of Hendrik Sorgh, Amsterdam, at an unknown auction house, Amsterdam (as ‘Een Astrologist: door Vermeer van Delft, extra puyk’)
by 1727: Govert Looten (1668-1727), Amsterdam
31 March 1729: sale of the collection of Govert Looten, Amsterdam, at an unknown auction house, Amsterdam
by 1778: Jacob Crammer Simonsz. (1725-1778), Amsterdam
25 November 1778: purchased by De Vries at the sale of the collection of Jacob Crammer Simonsz. at Schley, Amsterdam
1778: acquired by Jean Etienne Fizeaux (†1780), Amsterdam
1780: inherited by the widow of Jean Etienne Fizeaux
1784 or 1785: acquired by Pieter Fouquet and Joseph Paillet (art dealer), Paris
between 1785 and 1794 (?): acquired by Jan Danser Nyman (1735-1796), Amsterdam
16 August 1797: purchased by Jan Gildemeester Jansz. (1744-1799), Amsterdam, at the sale of the collection of Jan Danser Nyman at an unknown auction house, Amsterdam
11 June 1800: purchased by La Bouchère at the sale of the collection of Jan Gildemeester Jansz. at an unknown auction house, Amsterdam
9 May 1804: sale of the collection of Michael Bryan
by 1820-1828: John Gibbons, near Birmingham
Unknown date: inherited by William Gibbons
18 June 1857: purchased by Tate at the sale of the collection of William Gibbons at an unknown auction house, London (as ‘A Philosopher’)
30 May 1881: purchased by Léon Gauchez (art dealer), Paris, at the sale of the collection of Léopold Double, Paris, at an unknown auction house, Paris
between 1881 and 1888: purchased by Alphonse James de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris
1905: inherited by Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris
1940: confiscated by Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, Paris
Unknown date: transferred to Führermuseum, Inventory number 1479, Linz
Unknown date: transferred to Central Collecting Point, Inventory number 2609/1, Munich
1945: restituted to Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, Paris
1949: inherited by Guy de Rothschild (1909-2007), Paris

1982: ceded to the Louvre Museum, Paris
Source/Photographer www.essentialvermeer.com : Home : Info : Pic

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References

  1. ↑ Essential Vermeer.
  2. ↑ Base Atlas.
  3. ↑ Base Joconde.


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