Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650)

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

1640 · Oil on wood · European Paintings

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.

Artist

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Date

1640

Medium

Oil on wood

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929