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Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)  (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Date:
ca. 1652
Medium:
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions:
sheet: 3 15/16 x 6 1/8 in. (10 x 15.6 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number:
29.100.938
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Marking: Lower right collector's mark of Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (Lugt 2183) Lower left collector's mark of Sir Joshua Reynolds (Lugt 2364) Verso: at lower left the collector's mark of Francis Seymour Haden (Lugt 1227)

  • Provenance

    Jonathan Richardson, Senior (British, London 1665–1745 London); Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, Plympton 1723–1792 London); Sir Seymour Haden (British, London 1818–1910 Bramdean); Sotheby's, London, June 15, 1891, lot 573; Donor: Louisine W. Havemeyer

  • References

    William M. Ivins Jr. The Unseen Rembrandt. 1942, fig. no. pl. 38, ill.

    Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions) [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: Titled "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. 3 Vols., New York, 1942-1944, cat. no. 13 (Vol.2), fig. no. 13, ill.

    Otto Benesch The Drawings of Rembrandt. VI, London, 1957, cat. no. 1307, fig. no. 1537, p. 365, ill.

    Otto Benesch (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch) The Drawings of Rembrandt. Complete Edition in Six Volumes. II, London, 1973, cat. no. 1307, fig. no. 1615, pp. 353-54, ill.

    Peter Schatborn Tekeningen van Rembrandt in het Rijksmuseum/Drawings by Rembrandt in the Rijksmuseum (exhibition catalogue). Amsterdam, 1985, cat. no. 35, fig. no. 35b, ill.



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