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Rembrandt van Rijn

Jan Cornelisz Sylvius, the Preacher, 1644/1645

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 13.3 x 12.2 cm (5 1/4 x 4 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Benesch 1973, no. 762

Accession Number

1959.16.12

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Inscription

recto: none; verso: across top almost illegible: den een aeltyden rids ofte / naer Chrisstum gaende

Marks and Labels

recto: Friedrich August (Lugt 972)

Provenance

Friedrich August II (L.972), NGA LJR (L.Supp.1932d)

Associated Names

Augustus II, Elector of Saxony, Friedrich
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1956: Rembrandt and His Pupils, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1956, no. 2.

1960: Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1960.

1962: Drawings from the National Gallery of Art Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, no cat.

1966: Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no cat.

1966: Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no cat.

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. 29, 36, repro.

2006: Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2016: Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, 2016-2017, no. 67

2018: Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker, Denver Art Museum, 2018-2019.

Bibliography

1969: National Gallery of Art. Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art: Commemorating the tercentenary of the artist's death. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1969:36, no. 29, repro.

1973: Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 762

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 668, no. 1061, color repro.

1992: Royalton-Kisch, Martin. Drawings by Rembrandt and His Circle in the British Museum. London, 1992: 117.

2009: Royalton-Kisch, Martin. Catalogue of Drawings by Rembrandt and His School in the British Museum. London, 2009, under no. 37A (accessed 12/7/2015).

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