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Head of an old woman

Maker

Workshop of
(Artists)
1606-1669

Formerly attributed to
(Artists)
1606-1669

Title

Head of an old woman

Date of Production

1640s or c. 1660?

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support; loss of lower right corner, which had some brown ink on it as evidenced by a stray line

Dimensions

Height: 4.3 cm
Width: 2.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.189

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






Provenance

Alister Mathews, Bournemouth (1907-1985); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 10 February 1958; purchased there by Captain Norman Robert Colville (1893-1974), 2 May 1958 (£100); purchased back from him by Colnaghi (London), 21 January 1959; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 30 June 1959 (£100); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

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

Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 28/05/1959-27/06/1959

Literature

Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Galllery, 1983
cat. no. 14

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 189
pl. XIV
dated c. 1640

Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 1959
cat. no. 27 ...More

Royalton-Kisch, Martin, The drawings of Rembrandt: a revision of Otto Benesch's catalogue raisonné, rembrandtcatalogue.net ongoing
under 'Not in Benesch' (posted March 2013)
probably is not by Rembrandt but by a late pupil, perhaps Aert de Gelder, c. 1660 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower right, brown ink: “Rembrandt.”; lower right corner, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A23375 HE”.

Collector's mark: none.

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