- Identification and Creation
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- 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
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- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 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
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- 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
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- Descriptions
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- 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
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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
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