Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 15.7 x 14.7 cm (6 3/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.7047
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Catalogue Raisonné
Benesch 1973, no. 37
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
de Vos (Lugt 1450); Heseltine (Lugt 1507); NGA Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt Supp.1760b)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1899
Exhibition of Works by Rembrandt, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1899 (Winter Exhibition), no. 139.
1947
Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, 1947, no. 2.
1948
Seventy Master Drawings, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1948-1949, no. 36.
1953
Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no cat.
1956
Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1956, no. 14, repro.
Masterpieces of Graphic Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.
1958
Drawings and Prints by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958, no cat.
1960
Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1960, no. 2, repro.
1962
Drawings from the National Gallery of Art Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, no cat.
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. 24, 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. 97, repro.
2006
Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2018
Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker, Denver Art Museum, 2018-2019, no. 12, repro.
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: 34, no. 24, repro. (incorrectly identified as accession number B-15274 in catalogue).
1973
Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 37
1992
Royalton-Kisch, Martin. Drawings by Rembrandt and His Circle in the British Museum. London, 1992: 34, 63, note 11.
2011
Royalton-Kisch, Martin, and Peter Schatborn. "The Core Group of Rembrandt Drawings, II: The List" Master Drawings 49, 2011: no. 8, fig. 84.
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. 37
Inscriptions
center left in red chalk: R / 1630
Markings
, NGA LJR (Lugt Supp.1932d); Wm.
Wikidata ID
Q64620307