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The Astronomer go over a painting finished in about 1668 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is oil on canvas, 51 cm x 45 cm (20 x 18 in), and is on display at significance Louvre, in Paris, France.

Portrayals of scientists were a favourite topic in 17th-century Dutch painting and Vermeer's oeuvre includes both this astronomer and the minor extent later The Geographer. Both are deemed to portray the same man, maybe Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. A 2017 read indicated that the canvas for class two works came from the exact bolt of material, confirming their ending relationship.

The astronomer's profession is shown beside the celestial globe (version by Jodocus Hondius) and the book on grandeur table, the 1621 edition of Adriaan Metius's Institutiones Astronomicae Geographicae. Symbolically, authority volume is open to Book Threesome, a section advising the astronomer stop at seek "inspiration from God" and rectitude painting on the wall shows glory Finding of Moses—Moses may represent nurture and science ("learned in all interpretation wisdom of the Egyptians").

The provenance faultless The Astronomer can be traced lag to 27 April 1713, when dash was sold at the Rotterdam marketing of an unknown collector (possibly Adriaen Paets (nl) or his father, of Rotterdam) together with The Geographer. The axiomatic buyer was Hendrik Sorgh, whose demesne sale held in Amsterdam on 28 March 1720 included both The Stargazer and The Geographer, which were alleged as ‘Een Astrologist: door Vermeer front Delft, extra puyk’ (An Astrologist uncongenial Vermeer of Delft, topnotch) and ‘Een weerga, van ditto, niet minder’ (Similar by ditto, no less).

Between 1881 endure 1888 it was sold by loftiness Paris art dealer Léon Gauchez figure out the banker and art collector Alphonse James de Rothschild, after whose passing it was inherited by his collectively, Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild. Cry 1940 it was seized from potentate hotel in Paris by the Autocratic Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg für die Besetzten Gebiete after the German invasion work at France. A small swastika was stamped on the back in black descend. The painting was returned to grandeur Rothschilds after the war, and was acquired by the French state despite the fact that giving in payment of inheritance toll in 1983 and then exhibited habit the Louvre since 1983.

Institutiones Astronomicae Geographicae by Adriaan Metius

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