Mother and Child

after Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Anonymous Artist

Artist

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist After, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

This drawing is a sketch of a seated woman holding a child in her arms. The woman is on the right, sitting with her body facing the left. Her knees are bent, and her arms cradle the child. She is wearing a flowing cloak that covers most of her body, and a cloth covering on her head. Her facial features are indistinct, but she looks downward at the child. The child is also wrapped in cloth, but one of their arms is visible, their hand by their mouth. The background is blank. The lines of the drawing are dark brown against beige paper.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    reed pen and brown ink

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 8.5 x 8.2 cm (3 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
    support: 16.7 x 16.1 cm (6 9/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.672

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, no. A707

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joseph E. Widener [1871/1872-1943]; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2006

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

Bibliography

1973

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.)

Wikidata ID

Q64533445

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