REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)

Homer

1663
Oil on canvas, 108 x 82 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Catalogue number: Bredius 483.

This imaginary portrait was painted for Don Antonio Ruffo, a wealthy Sicilian nobleman and Rembrandt's only foreign patron who a few years earlier commissioned Rembrandt's famous Aristotle.