Jan Lutma, Goldsmith, 1656
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijnexpand_more
Etching, drypoint, and engravingexpand_more
Gift of Ruth and Bruce Daytonexpand_more 2009.71.5
Not on Viewexpand_more
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.
Details
- Title
- Jan Lutma, Goldsmith
- Artist Life
- 1606–1669
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2009.71.5
- Provenance
- Bruce B. Dayton, Wayzata, Minn.; given to MIA, 2009
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Hind 290, Bartsch 276, White/Boon (iii of iii)
- Curator Approved
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