Gerard van HonthorstDutch, 1592–1656Lute Player
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
State Hermitage Museum
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
Particulars
- Accession number
- ГЭ-718
In the catalog
Sources
- State Hermitage Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 6 days ago
- Image: State Hermitage Museum — Museum open access
Meanwhile, in the life of Gerard van Honthorst
The whole life1622
The Guild of St. Luke and a drawing academy
Honthorst was admitted to the Guild of St. Luke and the same year opened a drawing academy in Utrecht, in fact a small studio for visiting pupils. According to Joachim von Sandrart, his pupil in the mid-1620s, the master taught about 24 students at a time, each paying 100 guilders a year.
1623
Marries and heads the Guild of St. Luke
In the year of his marriage Honthorst was president of the Guild of St. Luke in Utrecht.
1626
Hosts a dinner for Rubens
Honthorst hosted a dinner for Peter Paul Rubens and portrayed him in an allegory as the honest man sought and found by Diogenes.
