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Artist/Creator (1)	Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	Dutch
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist
Title/Caption	Satire on Art Criticism
Date of Work	1644
Inscription	Inscribed in the margin at the bottom center: den tijt 1644; on the critic's platform: dees...van d kunst / is hortich gunst; on the bottom of the framed painting: Houdloos...ind. dat. (the inscription at the top indecipherable). Annotated at the bottom left: Rembrant.. Watermark (near the left border and perpendicular to it): fleur-de-lis in a shield surmounted by a crown.
Description of View	An atypical subject and approach to composition, Rembrandt's 'Satire on Art Criticism' buffoons the rhetoric of his contemporary art critics. The posturing 'connoisseur' at left comments on painted portraits brought before him. Rembrandt has drawn his composition from a classical subject, 'The Calumny of Apelles', which he knew from a drawing by the Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna (1430/31-1506). In Mantegna's drawing the beautiful Calumny, urged on by Treachery and Deceit, drags an innocent youth who is the victim of slander before a judge bearing the ears of an ass; the judge is flanked by Ignorance and Suspicion, and Repentance and Truth linger in the background. Here Rembrandt has reduced the number of personifications and transformed them into onlookers in contemporary dress. He has substituted two painted portraits for the victim receiving judgment. The drawing remains somewhat enigmatic, since the inscriptions on the critic's platform and on the framed painting cannot be read easily, nor are they surely in Rembrandt's hand.
Materials/Medium	Pen and brown ink corrected with white.
Dimensions	6 1/8 x 7 15/16 in. (15.5 x 20.1 cm)
Period	Dutch 17th Century
Culture	Dutch
Century	17th Century
Location.Current Site/City & Country	New York (N.Y.)
Location.Current Repository	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Repository Notes	The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.799), 1975
Subject	Drawing, Dutch Drawing, Baroque Drawing, 17th Century Figures, male
Publisher	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publisher.Location	New York (N.Y.)
Credit Line	Image [copyright] The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reference Number	Met-07241
Collection Title	Drawing (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu:2000/ah_copyright.html

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