Beggar Man and Woman

c. 1630/1631

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image depicts two full-length figures facing each other. The person on the left is turned slightly to the side with their head slightly inclined forward, gesturing with both hands extended. This figure is wearing a long garment and a head covering while the facial features are not visible due to the angle. The person on the right is standing with their body slightly bent backward, hands on their hips. This figure has facial features lightly sketched, showing an older individual with a beard, dressed in loose clothing and wearing a cap. The sketch is drawn in ink on paper with light shading beneath the figures for ground shadow, with a plain paper surface in the background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 12.5 x 11.2 cm (4 15/16 x 4 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.217.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, no. 206

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, London (Lugt 2183); Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (Lugt 2364); Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (Lugt 2445); William Esdaile (Lugt 2617); sold London, Christie's, June 17, 1840, lot 4, bought by Sheath; Sir Archibald Campbell, Argyll, Scotland; by inheritance to Sir Ilay Campbell, Argyll, Scotland; Armand Hammer Collection, 1976; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1976

  • Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings, 16th-19th centuries, P & D Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, no. 43.

1977

  • Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1977, beginning with the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris.

  • Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1977, repr.

2006

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

Bibliography

1908

  • Hind, A.M. Vasari Society, 1908-09, ser. 1, pt. IV, no. 26.

1933

  • Bauch, Kurt. Die Kunst des jungen Rembrandts. 1933, pp.114-18, 204-05, fig. III.

1954

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. London, 1954-1957: 2:no. 206, fig. 223.

1973

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 206

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. 206, as "Rembrandt?"

Wikidata ID

Q64620317

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