Head of an Old Man (recto)

c. 1631

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk, with touches of black chalk, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald

  • Dimensions

    overall: 13.7 x 13.8 cm (5 3/8 x 5 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1987.20.11.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, no. 42

Associated Artworks

Drapery Study (verso)

Dutch 17th Century

1631


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles Fairfax Murray. William Bateson, London (1861 - 1926) (Lugt 2604a) (his sale, Sotheby's London, 23-24 April 1929, no. 228; Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1987.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1500, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1929, no. 578.

1936

  • Rembrandt and his Circle, Worcester Art Museum, MA, 1936, no. 58 (not shown at Art Institute of Chicago venue).

1940

  • Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1940, no. 83, repro.

1960

  • Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1960, no. 3, repro.

2006

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

2008

  • Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2008-2009.

2009

  • Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference. J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 2009, 45 (color detail), 55, 56, 57, 251, no. 2.4 (as Lievens) (entry by Lee Hendrix).

Bibliography

1973

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 42

1988

  • Schatborn, Peter. Jan Lievens. Prenten en Tekeningen. Exh. cat. Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 1988-1989: 17, pl. IV (as attributed to Jan Lievens).

  • Schatborn, Peter. "Notes on Early Rembrandt Drawings." Master Drawings, vol. 27, p. 123 and fig. 13 (as Jan Lievens)

1990

  • Royalton-Kisch, Martin. "Recent Publications on Rembrandt Drawings." The Burlington Magazine 132 (1990): 134.

2006

  • Plomp, Michiel. "Rembrandt and His Circle: Drawings and Prints." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. New Series, vol. 64. 2006: 5 and fig. 2, as Jan Lievens.

2011

  • Rubinstein, Gregory. "Brief Encounter: The Early Drawings of Jan Lievens and Their Relationship with Those of Rembrandt" Master Drawings 49, 2011: 361-362, 370, and fig. 21.

2019

  • Wheelock, Arthur. "The Development of the Tronie in Seventeenth-Century Leiden." Anonymous Portraits: Dutch Seventeenth-Century Tronies. Tefaf, Maastricht, 2019: 11, fig. 3.

Watermarks

Fleur-de-lis

Wikidata ID

Q64620315


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