Hendrick ter Brugghen / Heraclitus (or Saint Jerome) / c. 1621Hendrick ter Brugghen
Heraclitus (or Saint Jerome)
c. 1621

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Creator Name: Brugghen, Hendrick ter
Creator Nationality: European; Dutch
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1588 - 1629
Gender: M
Creator Birth Place: born near Deventer, later settled in Utrecht
Creator Name-CRT: Hendrick ter Brugghen
Title: Heraclitus (or Saint Jerome)
Title Type: Primary
Title: The Weeping Heraclitus
Title Type: Former
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1616
Creation End Date: 1626
Creation Date: c. 1621
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Framed: 147.96cm x 124.14cm x 6.99cm, Painted surface: 125.5cm x 102cm, Tacking margins of oritinal fabric let out: 131.5cm x 107cm
Inscriptions: Signed and dated upside down on open book: "H TBrugghen 1621"
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1977.2
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Provenance: Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Wynnstay, Denbighshire, Wales (sale: Wyngetts Auction Galleries, Wrexem, Wales, May 12, 1971, cat. no. 489, as "Anonymous: Man Reading with Human Skull at Side"); [Trafalgar Galleries, London].
Context: The book and skull suggest that the figure is Saint Jerome, one of the four fathers of the Latin (western) church, although he is usually shown wearing red robes, with a lion nearby. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is often shown weeping, but seldom with a skull beside him. Our uncertainty, however, does not diminish the emotional strength of the figure: a wise old man contemplating the shortness of life and the folly of mankind.
AMICA ID: CMA_.1977.2
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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