Saskia(?) Lying in Bed
c. 1638
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and ink, brush with brown wash on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (upper corners rounded): 14.7 x 17.8 cm (5 13/16 x 7 in.)
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Accession
1966.2.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Benesch 1973, no. 169
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Samuel, Graf von Festetits (L.926, inscribed 1851)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1969
In Memoriam, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, unnumbered checklist.
Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 27, repro.
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. 108, repro.
1978
Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 55.
2006
Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (as Rembrandt)
Bibliography
1925
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt Handzeichnungen. New York, 1925: no. 689
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. 27, repro.
1973
Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 169
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 668, no. 1060, color repro.
1992
Royalton-Kisch, Martin. Drawings by Rembrandt and His Circle in the British Museum. London, 1992: 187, note 2 (as "attribution open to question").
1997
Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 78-79, fig. 26.
2009
Royalton-Kisch, Martin. Catalogue of Drawings by Rembrandt and His School in the British Museum. London, 2009: under no. 117, as "attribution open to question."
2012
Royalton-Kisch, Martin. The Drawings of Rembrandt: a Revision of Otto Benesch's Catalogue Raisonné online reference, 2012 - . (rembrandtcatalogue.net, accessed 13 September 2016): no. 37, as "Rembrandt?? (more probably Ferdinand Bol? after Rembrandt?)
Wikidata ID
Q64620314