File:Touch, by Rembrandt.jpg

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Stone Operation (Allegory of Touch) (c. 1624-1625). Oil on panel, 21.5 x 17.7 cm. Leiden Collection, New York City

Summary

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Rembrandt: The Operation (Allegory of Touch)  wikidata:Q21406026 reasonator:Q21406026
Artist
Rembrandt  (1606–1669)  wikidata:Q5598 s:en:Author:Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn q:en:Rembrandt
 
Rembrandt
Alternative names
Rembrandt van Rijn, Birth name: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Description Dutch painter, printmaker and drawer
Date of birth/death 15 July 1606 Edit this at Wikidata 4 October 1669 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Leiden Edit this at Wikidata Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
Work period between circa 1625 and circa 1669
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Leiden (1620-1624), Amsterdam (1624-1625), Leiden (1625-1633), Amsterdam (1631-1669)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5598
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Stone Operation (Allegory of Touch) Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Stone Operation (Allegory of Touch) Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Stone Operation (Allegory of Touch) Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lde,"Die Operation/Das Gefühl"
label QS:Lnl,"De operatie (gevoel)"
Series title The Senses Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
humorous depiction of one of the five senses. In a darkened room that hardly suggests a professional atmosphere, a barber-surgeon wields a scalpel to remove a stone from the head of his patient, who clenches his fists and teeth in pain. The only light illuminating the scene is the candle held by an intense elderly woman with a wrinkled face and clenched jaw.
Date between 1624 and 1625
date QS:P,+1624-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1624-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium oil on panel Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 21.6 cm (8.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 17.7 cm (6.9 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+21.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+17.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q15638014
Accession number
RR-102 (Leiden Collection) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history by 1939
date QS:P,+1939-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1939-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: dr. C.J.K. van Aalst, Hoevelaken

1960: sale of the collection of dr. C.J.K. van Aalst, Hoevelaken
1968-1979: kunsthandel G. Cramer, The Hague
7 July 1995: anonymous sale at Christie's, London (auction house)

by 2008
date QS:P,+2008-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2008-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Notes

Allegory of Touch belongs to a tradition of images hearkening back to the early sixteenth century, in which traveling quacks were shown performing “stone operations” that purportedly cured stupidity by removing the stone of folly.

When this series was dispersed is not known, but probably not before the early eighteenth century, at which time, it seems, all of these compositions were expanded after Rembrandt’s original panels had been set into larger ones. These later additions have been removed.

Just how Rembrandt devised the various scenes in his series of the Five Senses, and the sequence in which he intended them to be viewed, is not known. Nevertheless, it is clear that with the exception of Allegory of Smell, the young master loosely followed long-established iconographic traditions for his compositional inventions. For example, a number of sixteenth-century artists based their depictions of the Allegory of Touch on Lucas van Leyden’s The Stone Operation.
References
Source/Photographer The Leiden Gallery LLC

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