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Saskia seated at a table

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1636

Medium

red chalk on laid paper with brown ink framing lines, the upper right corner cut

Dimensions

Height: 12 cm
Width: 10.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.185

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This drawing depicts Rembrandt’s first wife Saskia Uylenburgh (1612-1642). It is a private study rather than a preparatory work for a painting or a print in which Rembrandt used his wife as a model to capture different poses. Such drawings convey an individual strength of expression in Saskia’s face, particularly evident in this study of her at a table, an image of thoughtful meditation or concern, expressed in an angular drawing style.

Provenance

Pierre Crozat, Paris (1665-1740), L.3612 (no. 292); his estate sale, Mariette (Paris), 10 April-13 May 1741, among lots 867-878 (comprising 351 drawings by Rembrandt); unidentified collector (L.1551b); H.M. Calmann (London); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 22 February 1955, on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£550); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Special Display - Rembrandt drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 22/02/2007-03/06/2007

Rembrandt's Women, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh and Royal Academy of Arts, London, 08/06/2001-16/12/2001

Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 02/07/1983-25/09/1983

Literature

Schatborn, Peter and Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt: the complete drawings and etchings, Cologne: Taschen 2019
cat. D283 on p. 193

Rembrandt's Women, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh and Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2001
cat. no. 91
ill. on p. 174
dated early 1640s

Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Galllery, 1983
cat. no. 10 ...More

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 185
pl. X
dated c. 1640

Benesch, Otto, Corpus der Rembrandtzeichnungen, 1954-73
vol. II, no. 280e
fig. 313
c. 1635

Royalton-Kisch, Martin, The drawings of Rembrandt: a revision of Otto Benesch's catalogue raisonné, rembrandtcatalogue.net ongoing
Benesch 0280e (posted 16 August 2016)
as Rembrandt, dated c. 1636 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, upper right corner, fragment: a small crown but unable to see image beneath it [see photo in file].

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, Crozat number (L.3612): “292”. Support (removed in 1983 and now in object file), Recto: upper right, written where the upper corner of the drawing had been cut, graphite: "Remb / ran". Support (now in object file), Verso: lower centre, brown ink, same inscription and hand as on D.1978.PG.179: “a.42”; lower right, graphite: “4”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, written in brown ink: Pierre Crozat (L.3612). Verso, centre, written in graphite: unidentified collector (L.1551b). [took photo, send to Lugt – their version looks like the top line reads ‘1696’ but our version looks much more like ‘jbgb’; they also only have it on 2 Rembrandt prints].

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