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lower right on desk: Rembrandt f

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Provenance

Johan van Schuylenburg, The Hague; (his sale, The Hague, 20 September 1735, no. 31); Backer. Pierre-Louis Éveillard de Livois [1736-1790], Angers;[1] (his estate sale, by Sentout, Angers, unknown date in 1791, no. 65); Gamba;[2] (his sale, by Paillet and Geoffroy, Paris, 17-18 December 1811, 1st day, no. 26, bought in); purchased soon after this sale by Ferdinando Marescalchi [1754-1816], Bologna.[3] Sir George Hayter [1792-1871], London, by 1841;[4] (his sale, Christie & Manson, London, 3 May 1845, no. 82, as Portrait of Cornelius Von Schrevellier [Schrevellius Translater(sic) of Homer); (Nieuwenhuys).[5] James-Alexandre, comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier [1776-1855], Paris; (his sale, at his residence, Paris, 27 March-4 April 1865 [this lot 31 March], no. 182); purchased by (Otto Mündler, Paris) for Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st baron Wimborne [1835-1914], Canford Manor, Dorsetshire.[6] (Arthur J. Sulley & Co., London); Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, by 1912; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] Burton Fredericksen brought to the Gallery’s attention details of the provenance from Livois through Marescalchi; see his 14 February 1991 letter to Suzannah Fabing, in NGA curatorial files. Further details have been found in the The Getty Provenance Index© Databases.

[2] This was possibly Bartolomeo Gamba (1776-1841), bibliographer, publisher, and librarian of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice.

[3] An 1813 inventory of Marescalchi's collection includes the painting: “Una mezza figura in grande rappresentante una Persona in meditazione o studiosa, di grande maniera, comprata alla vendita di Monsieur Gamba negozio di Parigi, come dal suo Catalogo. Quadro grande in piedi” (Monica Proni, “Per la ricostruzione della quadreria del Conte Ferdinando Marescalchi (1753-1816),” Antologia di Belle Arti, nos. 33/34 [1988]: 39). It is also included in later inventories of the Marescalchi collection made in 1817 and 1824 (Monica Preti Hamard, Ferdinando Marescalchi (1754-1816): Un collezionista italiano nella Parigi napoleonica, 2 vols., Bologna, 2005: 1:384, fig. 48; 2:131-132).

[4] Hayter lent the painting an exhibition in 1841.

[5] The dealer’s name is written below lot 82 in a copy of the sale catalogue annotated by Lord Northwick, now at Yale University (copy in NGA curatorial files).

[6] A Catalogue of the Pictures at Canford Manor in the Possession of Lord Wimborne, Edinburgh, 1888: 63-64, no. 154.

Exhibition History

1841
British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom, London, 1841, no. 71, as Portrait of Cornelius Pietersz Hooft.
1969
Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 17, 27, repro.
2005
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2005, no. 2, repro.
2005
Rembrandt's Saint Bartholomew, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, 2005-2006, no cat.

Bibliography

1829
Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. 9 vols. London, 1829-1842: 9(1842):800, no. 30.
1868
Vosmaer 1868, 308, 495 (also 1877 ed.: 359, 561).
1873
Blanc, Charles. L'Oeuvre de Rembrandt.... 2 vols. Paris, 1873: 291.
1885
Dutuit 1885, 7, 19, 49, 60, 69.
1893
Michel 1893, 2:450, 555 (also 1894 English trans., 2:132, 237).
1897
Bode, Wilhelm von, assisted by Cornelis Hofstede de Groot. The Complete Work of Rembrandt. Trans. Florence Simonds. 8 vols. Paris, 1897-1906: 5(1901):29-30, 174, no. 382, repro.
1899
Bell, Malcolm. Rembrandt van Rijn and His Work. London, 1899 (2nd. edition, 1907): 82, 140 (also 1907 ed.: 78-79, 125).
1906
Rosenberg 1906, 2:308, 403, repro. (also 1908 ed.: 384, 561, repro.; 1909 ed.: 384, 561, repro.)
1907
Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century.... 8 vols., translated from the German edition. London, 1907-1917: 6(1916):124, no. 178.
1913
Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis, and Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Early German, Dutch, and Flemish Schools. Philadelphia, 1913: unpaginated, repro.
1914
Valentiner 1914, 248, no. 72.
1921
Valentiner 1921, 384, repro.
1922
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. The Henry Goldman Collection. New York, 1922: no. 14.
1923
Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923: unpaginated, repro., as by Rembrandt.
1923
Meldrum 1923, 202, pl. 400.
1927
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "The Henry Goldman Collection." Art News 25 (May 1927); 3-17.
1930
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "Rediscovered Rembrandt Paintings." The Burlington Magazine 57 (December 1930): 259-271.
1931
Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 62, repro., as by Rembrandt.
1931
Valentiner 1931, intro., no. 127, repro.
1935
Bredius, Abraham. Rembrandt, Schilderijen. Vienna, 1935. English ed., Oxford, 1942: 27, no. 612, repro. (also 1936 English ed.).
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 6.
1948
Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 44, repro.
1956
Benesch, Otto. "Worldly and Religious Portraits in Rembrandt's Late Art." The Art Quarterly 19 (Winter 1956); 335-354, fig. 3.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 313, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 110.
1966
Bauch, Kurt. Rembrandt Gemälde. Berlin, 1966: intro., 7, 12, no. 223, repro. 221.
1968
Gerson 1968, 378, no. 295, repro.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 97, repro.
1969
Gerson/Bredius 1969, 515, 613, no. 612, repro.
1969
Haak, Bob. Rembrandt: His Life, His Work, His Time. New York, 1969: 298-299, no. 497, repro.
1969
NGA Rembrandt 1969, no. 17.
1970
Otto Benesch Collected Writings. Eva Benesch, ed. 2 vols. London and New York, 1970: 190-203, fig. 158.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 286, repro.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 283, no. 374, color repro.
1976
In the Light of Caravaggio. Exh. cat. Trafalgar Galleries, London, 1976: 21, 22, repro.
1977
Old Master Paintings. Exh. cat. Trafalgar Galleries at the Royal Academy, London, 1977: 62, 63, repro.
1979
Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 71, pl. 55, color repro.
1982
Halewood, William H. Six Subjects of Reformation Art: A Preface to Rembrandt. Toronto, 1982: 118, 120, repro.
1984
Schwartz 1984/1985, 310, no. 351, repro. (also 1985 English ed.: 310, 322, no. 351, repro.).
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 283, no. 368, color repro., as by Rembrandt van Ryn.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 331, repro.
1986
Guillaud, Jacquelin, and Maurice Guillaud. Rembrandt: da Bild des Menschen. Paris, 1986: 528, no. 615, repro. (also English ed., The Human Form and Spirit, trans. Elizabeth Willems-Treeman, New York, 1986).
1986
Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Grand Rapids and Kampen, 1986: 313, no. 468, repro.
1986
Tümpel 1986, 339, no. 468, repro.
1995
Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 241-247, color repro. 243.
2005
Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr., Peter C. Sutton, and Anne T. Woollett. "Saints as Men: Rembrandt's New Testament Portraits." Bible Review (Spring 2005): 28, fig. 26.

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