Minneapolis Institute of Art
Jan Lutma, Goldsmith
Rembrandt van RijnLinkedCulture matchlcp-d6807541bb3d
- Date
- 1656
- Medium
- Etching, drypoint, and engraving
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 108012
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
Jan Lutma, Goldsmith, pays homage to one of the grand old men of Dutch art at the time. Lutma, then in his seventies, was a master of the auricular forms fashionable earlier in the century. He holds a statuette, and on the table beside him are a hammer and a cup full of punches—the tools of his trade—as well as a dish featuring sensuous curvilinear contours for which he was famous. Though Rembrandt portrays Lutma as physically past his prime, he also gives him the penetrating gaze of a sharp mind still at work. The exceptionally neat inscription identifying the sitter may have been applied to the plate by Lutma’s son, who was both a goldsmith and a printmaker. Netherlands, Europe
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- Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton
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