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Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650)

1640
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 616
Herman Doomer was a successful cabinetmaker who worked with the imported hardwoods fashionable in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The exceptional care Rembrandt took with this likeness may indicate his esteem for a fellow master artisan. At roughly the same time that Rembrandt painted the portrait of Doomer and a companion piece of his wife Baertje Martens (1640; State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), the couple’s son Lambert was an apprentice in the artist’s studio.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650)
  • Artist: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
  • Date: 1640
  • Medium: Oil on wood
  • Dimensions: 29 5/8 x 21 3/4 in. (75.2 x 55.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
  • Object Number: 29.100.1
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Cabinet, Herman Doomer Dutch, Oak veneered with ebony, snakewood, rosewood, kingwood, cedar and other woods; mother-of-pearl, ivory, green stained bone, Dutch, Amsterdam
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Return of the Prodigal Son, Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) Dutch, Etching, pen and ink
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St. Jerome in Prayer, Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) Dutch, Etching
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