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

Herman Doomer

1640
Oil on wood, 75 x 55 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Catalogue number: Bredius 217.

The sitter of this portrait was Herman Doomer (c. 1595-1650), ebony worker in Amsterdam, a specialist in a craft that had been only recently developed. The companion piece of the painting represents Doomer's wife, Portrait of Baartgen Martens Doomer, it is in The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.




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