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Woman seated with hands clasped on her lap

Maker

Attributed to

1606-1669

Formerly attributed to
(Artists)
1606-1669

Title

Date of Production

1635 - 1639

Medium

pen and brown ink, trace of white chalk, on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 13.8 cm
Width: 10.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1970.XX.3

Mode of Acquisition

Johannes Wilde, bequest, 1970

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

unidentified collector, probably belonging to either of the two following owners (Laroche or Léon Borély),1708a; Abel Laroche (Paris); purchased by Léon Borély in Paris along the Seine, 1850s; given by him to his nephew, Count Paul Esterhazy (1861-1932), 1895; given by his widow to Count Carl Wilczek (1888-1949); acquired from him by Dr Johannes Wilde (1891-1970); Wilde Bequest 1970

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1976-77 (Nov.-Feb.)

Literature

Schatborn, Peter and Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt: the complete drawings and etchings, Cologne: Taschen 2019
cat. D360 on p. 234

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 2: Other than landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1976 - Febr
cat. no. 28

Benesch, Otto, Corpus der Rembrandtzeichnungen, 1954-73
vol. II, no. 261
fig. 287 ...More

Royalton-Kisch, Martin, The drawings of Rembrandt: a revision of Otto Benesch's catalogue raisonné, rembrandtcatalogue.net ongoing
Benesch 0261 (posted 8 May 2016) and under 0262, 0271
as Rembrandt? ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: bunch of eight grapes with hooked stem formed of double lines (4.3 x 2.6 cm, 2.1 cm between chain lines; closest in type is Heawood 2312 - dated 1606-07 though stem is not so bulbous and is wider. On Rembrandt WIRE database appears to match Watermark Grapes E.a: https://rembrandtwireproject.github.io/grapes/Ea.html, found on a print at the Rijksmuseum by Rembrandt, dated 1654: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=rembrandt+cat+snake&p=1&ps=12&st=Objects&ii=4#/RP-P-1987-173,4. See also Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt as an Etcher, 2006, II, 149).

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, now cut off: “67” [?]. Verso (obscured by backing sheet, visible via transmitted light): upper right edge, red chalk cut off: “[…] / M S 6" [?].

Collector's mark: Recto: lower centre edge, stamped in blue ink: unidentified collector’s mark (L.1708a).

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