Figures on the Anthoniesdijk Entering Houtewael [verso]

c. 1650

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    reed pen and brown ink on light brown washed laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 12.7 x 18.4 cm (5 x 7 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1993.51.6.b

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, no. 1261

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 London, Christie's, 3 July 1984, lot 63); John R. Gaines, Lexington, KY (sale, New York, Sotheby's 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 Chatworth, 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.

2006

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

2017

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

Bibliography

1973

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 1261

Inscriptions

verso: 4D 846 [?]

Markings

verso: none

Wikidata ID

Q64620321

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