Seated Old Man

1630

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 15.7 x 14.7 cm (6 3/16 x 5 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.7047

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, no. 37

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

de Vos (Lugt 1450); Heseltine (Lugt 1507); NGA Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt Supp.1760b)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1899

  • Exhibition of Works by Rembrandt, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1899 (Winter Exhibition), no. 139.

1947

  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, 1947, no. 2.

1948

  • Seventy Master Drawings, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1948-1949, no. 36.

1953

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no cat.

1956

  • Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1956, no. 14, repro.

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.

1958

  • Drawings and Prints by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958, no cat.

1960

  • Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1960, no. 2, repro.

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.

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. 24, 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. 97, repro.

2006

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

2018

  • Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker, Denver Art Museum, 2018-2019, no. 12, repro.

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: 34, no. 24, repro. (incorrectly identified as accession number B-15274 in catalogue).

1973

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 37

1992

  • Royalton-Kisch, Martin. Drawings by Rembrandt and His Circle in the British Museum. London, 1992: 34, 63, note 11.

2011

  • Royalton-Kisch, Martin, and Peter Schatborn. "The Core Group of Rembrandt Drawings, II: The List" Master Drawings 49, 2011: no. 8, fig. 84.

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

Inscriptions

center left in red chalk: R / 1630

Markings

, NGA LJR (Lugt Supp.1932d); Wm.

Wikidata ID

Q64620307

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