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2. Le Phénomène Rembrandt CHAIRE D’HISTOIRE DE L’ART DE LA PÉRIODE UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE MODERNE (XVIe-XVIIIe SIÈCLES) FACULTÉ DES LETTRES AMSTERDAM AU XVIIe SIÈCLE DÉPARTEMENT D’HISTOIRE DE L’ART Prof. Jan Blanc I. Le triomphe de Rembrandt (1610-1645) 2. Le phénomène Rembrandt 6 mars 2012 2. À l’ombre des Flandres Le paysage Pieter Potter, Paysage de ruines, 1636, huile sur bois, 40 x 40 cm, coll. pr. La nature morte Clara Peeters, Nature morte aux fleurs et aux gobelets, 1612, huile sur bois, 59,5 x 49 cm, Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle Johannes Torrentius, Nature morte, 1614, huile sur bois, 52 x 50,5 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Le portrait Nicolaes Eliaesz. Pickenoy, Portrait d’un astronome, 1624, huile sur bois, 106 x 176 cm, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1. 2. Le phénomène Rembrandt 1. 2. 1. Rembrandt, inventeur de formes Des portraits en scène Rembrandt van Rijn, La Leçon d’anatomie du docteur Nicolaes Tulp, 1632, huile sur toile, 170 x 217 cm, La Haye, Mauritshuis Nicolaes Eliasz. Tulp, Portrait du docteur Nicolaes Tulp, 1633-1634, huile sur toile, 39 x 30 cm, Amsterdam, coll. pr. Bartholomeus van der Helst, Portrait des régents de l’orphelinat wallon, 1637, huile sur toile, Amsterdam, maison Descartes Annibale Carracci, Christ mort, v. 1582, huile sur toile, 70,8 x 88,8 cm, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Rembrandt van Rijn, La Compagnie du capitaine Frans Banning Cocq et du lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, dite “La Ronde de nuit”, 1642, huile sur toile, 363 x 437 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum (au centre) Nicolaes Eliaesz. Pickenoy, La Compagnie du capitaine Jan Claesz. Vlooswijck, v. 1640, huile sur toile, 340 x 527 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Bartholomeus van der Helst, La Célébration de la Paix de Münster, 1648, chez les membres de la guilde des arquebusiers, 1648, huile sur toile,232 x 547 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy, Portrait de Cornelis de Graeff, 1636, huile sur toile, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Six lisant, 1647, eau-forte et pointe-sèche Des histoires en action Rembrandt van Rijn, Le Christ durant la tempête sur la mer de Galilée, 1633, huile sur toile, 160 x 128 cm, Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Rembrandt van Rijn, L’Aveuglement de Samson, 1636, huile sur toile, 236 x 302 cm, Francfort, Städelsches Kunstinstitut Peter Paul Rubens, Prométhée enchaîné, 1610-1611, huile sur toile, 243 x 210 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art Rembrandt van Rijn, Suzanne et les vieillards, 1636, huile sur toile, La Haye, Mauritshuis Des paysages en clair-obscur Pieter van Laer, Le Départ de l’auberge, 1639-1642, huile sur toile, 32 x 43 cm, Paris, musée du Louvre Pieter van Laer, Les Bergers, 1639- 1642, huile sur toile, 32 x 43 cm, Paris, musée du Louvre Rembrandt van Rijn, Paysage, 1642-1646, huile sur bois, 45 x 70 cm, Paris, musée du Louvre Adam Elsheimer, Paysage nocturne avec la fuite en Égypte, 1609, huile sur cuivre, 31 x 41 cm, Munich, Alte Pinakothek Aert van der Neer, Paysage au moulin, v. 1646, huile sur bois, 69 x 92 cm, Saint-Pétersbourg, musée de l’Hermitage 1. 2. 2. Rembrandt, maître d’atelier Govert Flinck, Rembrandt en berger, v. 1636, huile sur toile, 64 x 45 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Govert Flinck, Isaac bénissant Jacob, 1639, huile sur toile, 117 x 141 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout, Isaac bénissant Jacob, 1642, huile sur toile, 101 x 128 cm, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art Ferdinand Bol, La Libération de saint Pierre, v. 1640, huile sur bois, coll. pr. Jan Victors, Jeune femme à la fenêtre, 1640, huile sur toile, 93 x 78 cm, Paris, musée du Louvre Jan Victors, Hannah donnant son fils Samuel au prêtre, 1645, huile sur toile, 135 x 133 cm, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Carel Fabritius, Autoportrait, v. 1645, huile sur bois, 65 x 49 cm, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Carel Fabritius, La Résurrection de Lazare, v. 1642, huile sur toile, 211 x 140 cm, Varsovie, Muzeum Narodowe .
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