H238: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), after Justus Suttermans (1597-1681)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H238
- People
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Unidentified Artist
Copy after Justus Suttermans, Flemish (Anvers 1597 - 1681 Florence, Italy)
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
- Title
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), after Justus Suttermans (1597-1681)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- Unidentified culture
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/299708
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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59.7 x 53.3 cm (23 1/2 x 21 in.)
framed: 90.2 x 81.9 x 12.1 cm (35 1/2 x 32 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Professor Edward C. Pickering to Harvard University, 1919
- Object Number
- H238
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Harvard owns another portrait of Galileo, also copied from the Sustermanns original. See object number H182. The original painting by Justus Suttermans is in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Publication History
- Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 60
- John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, Harvard A to Z, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2004), p. 277
Verification Level
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