Borstbeeld Rembrandt van Rijn
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Bust of Rembrandt van Rijn

Bust of Rembrandt van Rijn - Leiden

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Rembrandt with beret has a brush or etching needle in his hand and is frowning and looking intently in front of him, no doubt at an imaginary posing model or a painting in progress in his studio.
This bronze bust of the painter on a rather tall pedestal can be found on the Witte Singel near the junction with the Noordeinde. It was created back in 1906, 300 years after Rembrandt's birth, by sculptor Toon Dupuis and unveiled at the time by then Queen Mother Emma. The statue looks in the direction of The Hague, which, according to some, is exactly the wrong way. Rembrandt should be looking in the direction of Amsterdam. ‘That's where he became big’.

Toon Dupuis (Antwerp 1877 - 1937) was a Dutch sculptor and medallist with Belgian roots. He learnt sculpting early on from his father: painter and sculptor Louis Dupuis, and later studied at the drawing academy in Antwerp. Moving to The Hague in 1898, he officially became a Dutch citizen ten years later and taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. Well-known works include a statue of Petrus Canisius in the Hunnerpark in Nijmegen and a bust of Jozef Israëls, which is part of the Rijksmuseum collection.

Borstbeeld Rembrandt van Rijn

Bust of Rembrandt van Rijn
Witte Singel 1
2311 BG Leiden

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