Homer Dictating his Verses
Homer Dictating his Verses is a 1663 oil on canvas painting by Rembrandt, signed and dated by the artist. It is now in the Mauritshuis, to which it was bequeathed in 1946 by Abraham Bredius, who had loaned it to the museum since 1894, when he first bought it in London.

With "Aristotle with a Bust of Homer" (1653) and a lost "Alexander the Great" (1663), it was one of three works commissioned from the artist by the Sicilian nobleman Antonio Ruffo and remained in his family's collection until around 1750. It is next recorded at a Christie's auction in London on 16 February 1810 as "A School Master with His Pupil".
Q5598
Rembrandt
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Q221092
Mauritshuis
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Q329815
Abraham Bredius
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Q2404992
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
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Q88949215
Antonio Ruffo
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Q503176
Christie's
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Q11710021
Homer Dictating his Verses
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1663
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1946-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1946
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1894-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1894
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1750-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1750
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1810-02-16T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
16 February 1810
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1653
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1663
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