Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), after Justus Suttermans (1597-1681)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H238
People: 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: 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
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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

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