The Scholar at the Lectern

The Scholar at the Lectern

The Scholar at the Lectern or The Father of the Jewish Bride is a 1641 oil on panel painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. With The Girl in a Picture Frame (also known as The Jewish Bride) and Landscape with the Good Samaritan, it is one of only three Rembrandt paintings in Polish collections.

Stanisław August Poniatowski bought it and The Girl in a Picture Frame in 1777 from Elżbiety Henrietty Marii Gołowkin (daughter of Friedricha Paula von Kameke) via the art dealer Jakuba Triebla. He initially displayed them at the Łazienki Palace in Warsaw and after his death they both passed to Józef Poniatowski who in 1813 left them to his sister Maria Teresa Poniatowska. In 1815 they were bought by Kazimierz Rzewuski, who gave them to his daughter Ludwice, wife of Antoniego Lanckorońskiego. They were later owned by the Lanckoroński family, resident in Vienna.

It was considered lost after World War Two and doubts on its authorship first appeared in 1969. It was not included in the 1989 edition of the Rembrandt Research Project. In 1994 Karolina Lanckorońska transferred both it and The Girl in the Picture Frame to the Royal Castle, Warsaw, where they still hang. The Project accessed them and their authorship was confirmed in February 2006.

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