Head of an Old Man (recto)
c. 1631
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk, with touches of black chalk, on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 13.7 x 13.8 cm (5 3/8 x 5 7/16 in.)
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Accession
1987.20.11.a
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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