Caesar van Everdingen: Allegorical portrait of the Steyn family as scene of Diogenes  |
Artist | Caesar van Everdingen (1616/1617–1678) |  | Alternative names | Cesar Boetius van Everdingen, Boetius van Everdingen, Caesar Bovetius van Everdingen, Cesar Bovetius van Everdingen, Caesar Pietersz. van Everdingen, Cesar Pietersz. van Everdingen, Ceser van Everdingen, Cesar van Everdingen, Caesar Bovesis | Description | Dutch painter, drawer and ornamental painter | Date of birth/death | circa 1616-1617 | 13 October 1678 (buried) | Location of birth/death | Alkmaar (?) | Alkmaar  | Work location | Utrecht (?), Alkmaar (1632-1648), Amersfoort (1642-August 1643), Alkmaar (14 July 1646), Haarlem (1648-1658), Alkmaar (1658-1678) | Authority file | | creator QS:P170,Q735663 |  |
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Title | Diogenes Looking for an Honest Man (Portrait Historié of the Steyn Family)  label QS:Lnl,"Diogenes zoekt een mens." label QS:Len,"Diogenes looking for an honest man." |
Object type | painting  |
Genre | portrait  |
Date | 1652  |
Medium | oil on canvas mounted on panel |
Dimensions | height: 75.9 cm (29.8 in) ; width: 103.6 cm (40.7 in)  dimensions QS:P2048,+75.9U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+103.6U174728 |
Collection | Mauritshuis (Inventory) |  | Native name | Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis | Location | | Coordinates | 52° 04′ 49.4″ N, 4° 18′ 51.5″ E  | Established | 1822  | Website | mauritshuis.nl | Authority file | | institution QS:P195,Q221092 |
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Exhibition history | Le siècle de Rembrandt, tableaux hollandais des collections publiques françaises, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 17 November 1970–15 February 1971, Cat.no. 75. Hollands Classicisme in de zeventiende-eeuwse schilderkunst, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 25 September 1999–9 January 2000, cat. : ISBN 90-5662-120-3, cat. no. 30.
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Inscriptions | Date and monogram top left: ANNO. / 1652 / CVE |
References | Mauritshuis in detail, as Diogenes looking for an honest man (Portrait historié of the Steyn family), height: 75.9 cm (29.8 in); width: 103.6 cm (40.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,75.9U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,103.6U174728 . RKDimages, Art-work number 2370, as Diogenes zoekt een mens, height: 76 cm (29.9 in); width: 103.5 cm (40.7 in)dimensions QS:P2048,76U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,103.5U174728 |
Source/Photographer | Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artworkwga QS:P11807,"e/everding/caesar/diogenes" |