View of Houtewael near the Sint Anthoniespoort [recto]

c. 1650

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    reed pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash and touches of white on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 12.5 x 18.3 cm (4 15/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1993.51.6.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, no. 1485

Associated Artworks

Figures on the Anthoniesdijk Entering Houtewael [verso]

Rembrandt van Rijn

1650

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

possibly Govert Flinck [1615-1660]; Nicolaes Anthoni Flinck [1646-1723] (Lugt 959), Rotterdam; William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire [1672-1729]; by descent at Devonshire House and Chatsworth (inv.no.1032) (sale, Christie's, London, 3 July 1984, lot 63); John R. Gaines, Lexington, KY (sale, Sotheby's, New York 17 November 1986, lot 19); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York; gift 1993, to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Exhibition of Dutch Art, Royal Academy, London, 1929, no. 608.

1949

  • Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1949, no. 36.

1956

  • Rembrandt, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1956, no. 134.

1961

  • Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1961, no. 93.

1969

  • Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth: A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington and tour, 1969-1970, no. 93.

1973

  • Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth: A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973-74, no. 93.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 65.

1990

  • Woodner Collection, Master Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 80.

1993

  • Nine Old Master Drawings: Recent Gifts from the Woodner Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993 (checklist only).

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 72.

1998

  • Rembrandt et Amsterdam: Promenades avec Rembrandt dans la ville d'Amsterdam et ses alentours, Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 1998-1999, cat. no. 37, plates 55, 62.

2000

  • Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, unnumbered catalogue.

2004

  • Rembrandt, Albertina, Vienna, 2004, no. 163.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

  • Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

2018

  • Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2018, unnumbered brochure.

Bibliography

1888

  • Lippmann, Friedrich and Cornelis Hofstede de Groot. Original Drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn Reproduced in Phototype. 4 vols. Berlin, 1888-1911: II: no. 58.

1906

  • Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis. Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts. Haarlem 1906: no. 846.

1918

  • Eisler, Max. Rembrandt als Landschafter. Munich, 1918: 65.

1920

  • Lugt, Frits. Mit Rembrandt in Amsterdam. Berlin, 1920: 107, 133, no. 82 (repro. of recto only).

1935

  • Benesch, Otto. Rembrandt: Werk und Forschung. Vienna, 1935: 48.

  • Wimmer, G. Rembrandts Landschafts-Zeichnungen. Frankfurt-am-Main, 1935: 65.

1947

  • Benesch, Otto. Rembrandt, Selected Drawings. New York, 1947: 26, no. 181 (repro. of recto only).

1954

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London, 1954-1957: 6(1957):no. 1261, figs. 1485, 1486.

1965

  • Slive, Seymour. Drawings of Rembrandt. 2 vols. New York, 1965: I: no. 58 (repro. of recto only).

1970

  • Benesch, Otto. Rembrandt, Werk und Forschung. Lucerne, 1970: 48.

1973

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 1485

1987

  • Melikian, Souren. "A Master Collector, Ian Woodner: An Eye for the Future." Art & Auction. (November 1987): 87.

1988

  • Giltaij, Jeroen. The Drawings by Rembrandt and His School in the Museum Boyman-van Beuningen. Exh. cat. Rotterdam, 1988: mentioned under no. 18 (verso reproduced fig. a).

1992

  • Royalton-Kisch, Martin. "Rembrandt's Landscape Drawings." Drawing: Masters and Methods. Raphael to Redon. Papers presented to the Ian Woodner Master Drawings Symposium at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. London, 1992: 114-115, figs. 1, 2.

1995

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections." Exh. brochure, unpaginated (repr.)

  • Jones, Jennifer. "The Woodner Collections at the National Gallery." Drawing 17 (September-October 1995): 49-53 (repr. recto fig. 8).

2000

  • Royalton-Kisch, Martin. “From Rembrandt to Van Renesse: Some Re-Attributed Drawings.” The Burlington Magazine 142, no. 1164 (2000): 158 and fig. 30

Inscriptions

recto: none

Markings

recto: Nicolaes Anthoni Flinck (Lugt 959)

Wikidata ID

Q64620320

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