Heraclitus
1628
- Medium
- canvas
- Dimensions
- 85.5 × 70 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-106895
The Greek sage Heraclitus was known as the crying philosopher because he mourned the folly of mankind, while his opposite Democritus (the nearby pendant) could only laugh at it. Here Heraclitus looks like a melancholy old man. Downcast, he leans on a terrestrial globe and gestures dismissively with his left hand, as if to say: ‘All is for nought, the world will come to nothing.’
Provenance
Gift of B. Asscher, Amsterdam and H. Koetser, Amsterdam
Registry history
- 1628 — Recorded in the collection of Rijksmuseum
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