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Rembrandt van Rijn

Beggar Woman Leaning on a Stick, 1628/1630

Not on View

Medium

brush and brown wash on laid paper, on Richardson album sheet

Dimensions

Overall: 13.4 x 11.9 cm (5 1/4 x 4 11/16 in.)
support: 20 x 17.6 cm (7 7/8 x 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Benesch 1973, no. 24

Accession Number

1943.3.7050

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, London (1665 - 1745) (Lugt 2183). Thomas Hudson, London (1701 - 1779) (Lugt 2432). Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723 - 1792). Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia (1891 - 1943) (Lugt 1760b and 1932d). Gift to the National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Hudson, Thomas
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir
Richardson, Sr., Jonathan
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1930: Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930.

1930: Rembrandt Etchings: Lent by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930.

1947: Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, 1947, no. 3.

1956: Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.

1956: Rembrandt and His Pupils, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1956, no. 5.

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.

1963: Youthful Works by Great Artists, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, 1963, no. 5, repro.

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

1969: Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years: An Exhibition of Rembrandt and His Followers, Art Institute of Chicago; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Detroit Institute of Arts, 1969-1970, no. 96, repro.

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. 26, repro.

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

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: 35, no. 26, repro.

1973: Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 24

1981: Broos, Ben. Rembrandt en tekenaars uit zijn omgeving. Amsterdam, 1981: 27.

2006: Schatborn, Peter, Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken, and Hélène Grollemund. Rembrandt dessinateur: Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections en France. Paris, 2006: under no. 7, fig. 25.