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Soit une habile r\u00e9actualisation par le rembranesque Salomon Koninck, dans les ann\u00e9es 1640, d\u2019un sch\u00e9ma bien ant\u00e9rieur de Rembrandt. S\u2019agirait-il alors d\u2019un faux pendant r\u00e9alis\u00e9 pour le possesseur du Rembrandt de 1632, une dizaine d\u2019ann\u00e9es plus tard ? \u00c0 moins que, comme il est plus probable, la mise en pendant des deux Philosophe ne se soit effectu\u00e9e qu\u2019au XVIIIe s., voir infra. \u2013 \u00c0 dater vers 1640-1650.","inscriptions":"Nature de marque : \r ; cachet de cire","namesAndTitles":"","onomastics":"","dimension":[{"type":"Hauteur","value":"0,28","displayDimension":"0,28 m","unit":"m","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":1,"note":""},{"type":"Hauteur avec accessoire","value":"0,535","displayDimension":"0,535 m","unit":"m","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":2,"note":""},{"type":"Largeur","value":"0,335","displayDimension":"0,335 m","unit":"m","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":3,"note":""},{"type":"Largeur avec accessoire","value":"0,605","displayDimension":"0,605 m","unit":"m","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":4,"note":""}],"shape":"","materialsAndTechniques":"huile sur bois (ch\u00eane)","placeOfCreation":"","dateOfDiscovery":"","placeOfDiscovery":"","provenance":"","historicalContext":[],"objectHistory":"Acquis \u00e0 une date ind\u00e9termin\u00e9e par Marc-Ren\u00e9 de Voyer, marquis d\u2019Argenson (1722-1782), fils et neveu de deux ministres de Louis XV ; sans doute agrandi pour faire pendant au Philosophe en contemplation de Rembrandt (INV. 1740), acquis, lui, en 1748 par le m\u00eame Voyer ; c\u00e9d\u00e9 vers 1751 avec son pendant \u00e0 Claude-Alexandre de Villeneuve, comte de Vence (1702-1759), les deux Philosophe \u00e9tant d\u00e9j\u00e0 cit\u00e9s chez Vence dans les ann\u00e9es 1750 par Dezallier d\u2019Argenville et Descamps ; grav\u00e9 par L. Surugue en 1753 comme Rembrandt, Philosophe en m\u00e9ditation, le pendant l\u2019\u00e9tant en 1754 comme Philosophe en contemplation ; vente apr\u00e8s d\u00e9c\u00e8s du comte de Vence, Paris, 9-16 II 1761, no 38 (en pendant au no 39, avec notice commune pour les deux tableaux \u00e0 vendre s\u00e9par\u00e9ment) ; marquis de Vence, cousin germain du pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent ; \u00c9tienne-Fran\u00e7ois, comte de Stainville, duc de Choiseul (1719-1785), ministre de Louis XV, lequel r\u00e9unit bient\u00f4t \u00e0 nouveau les deux Philosophe et les fait graver par Baillie en 1771 pour la publication de son cabinet en 1779 ; sa vente, Paris, 6 IV 1772, no 7 ou 8 (\u00ab deux petits tableaux connus sous le nom de Philosophes \u00bb) ; Donjeux, marchand d\u2019art, Paris ; P. P. L. Randon de Boisset (1709-1776), Paris ; sa vente apr\u00e8s d\u00e9c\u00e8s, Paris, 27 II-25 III 1777, no 49 (pendants sous le m\u00eame no) ; Perrin pour Millon d\u2019Ailly, neveu de Randon de Boisset ; J. H. Fr. de Paule de Rigaud, comte de Vaudreuil (1740-1817), Paris ; sa vente, Paris, 24 XI 1784, no 28 (pendants sous le m\u00eame no) ; acquis \u00e0 cette vente (avec le pendant) par A. J. Paillet, marchand d\u2019art \u00e0 Paris, pour Louis XVI ; expos\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019ouverture du Mus\u00e9um (Louvre) en 1793, cat. no 62, Un philosophe lisant (cf. Dubreuil).","jabachInventory":"","napoleonInventory":"","previousOwner":[{"value":"Voyer d\u0027Argenson, Marc-Ren\u00e9","note":"","role":", Propri\u00e9taire"},{"value":"M. 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