Head of an Old Man (recto), c. 1631

Not on View

Medium

red chalk, with touches of black chalk, on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 13.7 x 13.8 cm (5 3/8 x 5 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald

Catalogue Raisonné

Benesch 1973, no. 42

Accession Number

1987.20.11.a

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Provenance

Charles Fairfax Murray. William Bateson, London (1861 - 1926) (Lugt 2604a) (his sale, Sotheby's London, 23-24 April 1929, no. 228; Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1987.

Associated Names

Bateson, William
Rosenwald, Lessing J., Mrs.

Exhibition History

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

2008: Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2008-2009.

2009: Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference. J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 2009, 45 (color detail), 55, 56, 57, 251, no. 2.4 (as Lievens) (entry by Lee Hendrix).

Bibliography

1973: Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 42

1988: Schatborn, Peter. Jan Lievens. Prenten en Tekeningen. Exh. cat. Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 1988-1989: 17, pl. IV (as attributed to Jan Lievens).

1988: Schatborn, Peter. "Notes on Early Rembrandt Drawings." Master Drawings, vol. 27, p. 123 and fig. 13 (as Jan Lievens)

1990: Royalton-Kisch, Martin. "Recent Publications on Rembrandt Drawings." The Burlington Magazine 132 (1990): 134.

2006: Plomp, Michiel. "Rembrandt and His Circle: Drawings and Prints." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. New Series, vol. 64. 2006: 5 and fig. 2, as Jan Lievens.

2011: Rubinstein, Gregory. "Brief Encounter: The Early Drawings of Jan Lievens and Their Relationship with Those of Rembrandt" Master Drawings 49, 2011: 361-362, 370, and fig. 21.

2019: Wheelock, Arthur. "The Development of the Tronie in Seventeenth-Century Leiden." Anonymous Portraits: Dutch Seventeenth-Century Tronies. Tefaf, Maastricht, 2019: 11, fig. 3.