Beggar Woman Leaning on a Stick

1628/1630

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.7050

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, no. 24

Artwork history & notes

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

Exhibition History

1930

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

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

1936

  • Rembrandt and his Circle, Worcester Art Museum, MA, 1936, no. 62 (not shown at Art Institute of Chicago venue).

1947

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

1956

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

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

1960

  • Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1960, no. 1, repro.

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 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.

  • 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.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q64620310

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