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Portrait of a girl with her arms folded leaning out a window
Maker
(artist)
1606-1669
1606-1669
Title
Portrait of a girl with her arms folded leaning out a window
Date of Production
(circa) 1645
Medium
black chalk on laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
Height: 8.3 cm
Width: 6.5 cm
Width: 6.5 cm
Accession Number
D.1978.PG.192
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 informal life-drawing of a girl leaning forward and gazing directly at the viewer is related to 'A Girl at a Window' from 1645 (Dulwich Picture Gallery). The different position of the arms indicates that this study does not derive from the painting but was produced in its development. The drawing gains much of its impact from the resourceful contrast between its tiny format and the relatively broad sketchy strokes, resulting from Rembrandt’s use of chalk to allow subtle gradual modelling.
Provenance
Jean-Denis Lempereur, Paris (1701-1779), L.1740; possibly his sale, Boileau et Joullain (Paris), 24 May (and following days) 1773, lot 333 ('Trois feuilles, sur chacune desquelles est une tête à la pierre noire"); collected for Friedrich August II of Saxony (1797-1854), L.971, by Johann G.A. Frenzel (1782-1855); Frenzel's sale, Heinrich (Dresden), 7 August 1837 (although unable to identify the lot); in Dresden until after the Second World War (? according to the 1983 exhibition catalogue, but no evidence provided for this); Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 25 August 1948 (along with D.1978.PG.191, £2,000 for both); Princes Gate Bequest 1978
Exhibition History
Making Discoveries: Dutch and Flemish Masterpieces, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 08/11/2016-05/03/2017
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 ...More
Paintings & their context IV: Rembrandt's Girl at a window, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 03/02/1993-25/04/1993
Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 02/07/1983-25/09/1983 ...Less
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 ...More
Paintings & their context IV: Rembrandt's Girl at a window, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 03/02/1993-25/04/1993
Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 02/07/1983-25/09/1983 ...Less
Literature
cat. no. under DPG163
https://dulwich-picture-gallery-ii.rkdstudies.nl/pronk-rembrandt/rembrandt-dpg163/
Schatborn, Peter and Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt: the complete drawings and etchings, Cologne: Taschen 2019
p. 144
cat. D372 on p. 241
Jonker, Michiel and Ellinoor Bergvelt, Dutch and Flemish paintings. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 2016
p. 165
fig. 4 on p. 166 ...More
Royalton-Kisch, Martin and Peter Schatborn, 'The Core Group of Rembrandt Drawings, II: The List' in 'Master Drawings', Autumn 2011 - pp. 323-346; 49, 3
no. 52 on p. 339
fig. 127 on p. 339
as a study for the painting
Royalton-Kisch, Martin, Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school. Online research catalogue. https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_research_catalogues/rembrandt_drawings/drawings_by_rembrandt.aspx, 2010
under nos. 29, 43, 62, 119
Masterpieces of European painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York, 9 Mar. - 30 May 2010, 2010
pp. 35-36 under no. 3
fig. 3.1 on p. 36
Hautekeete, Stefaan, Les dessins de Rembrandt et ses élèves appartenant à la collection de Jean de Grez, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique-Bruxelles, Brussels 2005
p. 28 under no. 5
fig. 1 on p. 28
Rembrandt's Women, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh and Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2001
cat. no. 103
ill. on p. 187
Paintings & their context IV: Rembrandt's Girl at a window, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 1993
cat. no. 4
p. 12 and no. 4 on pp. 57-58
fig. 8 on p. 11
entry author: Martin Royalton-Kisch
Royalton-Kisch, Martin, Drawings by Rembrandt and his circle in the British Museum, London 1992
p. 155 under no. 69 and pp. 119-20
Collection for a King: Old Master paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 14 Apr. - 2 Sept. 1985; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 3 Oct. 1985 - 5 Jan. 1986, 1985-86
p. 100 under no. 26
ill. on p. 100
entry author: Christopher White
Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Galllery, 1983
cat. no. 20
Broos, Ben, Oude tekeningen in het bezit van de Gemeentmusea van Amsterdam, waaronder de collectie Fodor. Deel 3. Rembrandt en tekenaars uit zijn omgeving, Amsterdam 1981
under no. 14
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 192
Benesch, Otto, Collected Writing. I. Rembrandt, New York 1970
p. 122
Kitson, Michael, Rembrandt, London 1969
p. 86 under no. 25
Bredius, A., revised by H. Gerson, Rembrandt. The complete Edition of the Paintings, 1969
p. 579 under no. 368
Foucard, Jacques-Paul, 'Versos inédits des dessins de Rembrandt' in 'Oud-Holland', 1966; LXXXI
p. 50
Slive, S., Drawings of Rembrandt, New York 1965
vol. II, no. 469
ill.
Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 192
pl. XVII
dated 1645
Gelder, J.G. van, Prenten en Tekeningen (de Schoonheid van ons Land), Amsterdam 1958
pp. 31 (or 37?) and 95, no. 61
ill.
Benesch, Otto, Corpus der Rembrandtzeichnungen, 1954-73
vol. IV, no. 700
fig. 841
Benesch, Otto, Rembrandt's selected drawings, London and Oxford 1947
no. 143
Benesch, O., 'Rembrandt' in Thieme-Becker Künstler-Lexikon, 1935; XXIX
p. 265
Benesch, O., Rembrandt. Werk und Forschung, Vienna 1935
p. 38
Valentiner, W.R., Rembrandt. Des Meisters Handzeichnungen. Klassiker der Kunst, Stuttgart and Berlin 1934; xxxi, vol. II
no. 707 and p. 419
Benesch, Otto, 'Unbekanntes und Verkanntes von Rembrandt' in 'Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch', 1933-34; N.F., II-III
p. 304
Freise, K., K. Lilienfeld and H. Wichmann, Rembrandts Handzeichnungen iii, Staatliches Kupferstichkabinett und Sammlung Friedrich August II zu Dresden, 1925
no. 116 and p. 10
ill.
Hofstede de Groot, C., Original drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, The Hague 1911
4th series, part I, no. 25a
ill.
Lippmann, F., with the assistance of W. Bode, S. Colvin, F.S. Haden and J.P. Heseltine, Original Drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn reproduced in Phototype, four series, London, Paris and The Hague 1888-1911
vol. IV, no. 25a
ill.
Wurzbach, Alfred von, Niederländisches Künstlerlexikon, Vienna and Leipzig 1910
p. 417
Valentiner, W.R, Rembrandt. Des Meisters Gemälde. Klassiker der Kunst, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1908
p. 559 under no. 320
Hofstede de Groot, C., Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, Haarlem 1906
no. 308 and p. xxi
Bode, W. von, The complete work of Rembrandt, Paris 1900
vol. IV, p. 192 under no. 300
de Groot, Hofstede (intro text), 26 Photogravüren nach den schönsten Gemälden der Ausstellungen in London und Amsterdam, Jan.-Feb., 1899
under no. 10
wrongly stated to be signed and dated 1645
Michel, Emile, Rembrandt, sa vie, son oeuvre et son temps. 2 vols, Paris 1893
p. 578 ...Less
https://dulwich-picture-gallery-ii.rkdstudies.nl/pronk-rembrandt/rembrandt-dpg163/
Schatborn, Peter and Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt: the complete drawings and etchings, Cologne: Taschen 2019
p. 144
cat. D372 on p. 241
Jonker, Michiel and Ellinoor Bergvelt, Dutch and Flemish paintings. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 2016
p. 165
fig. 4 on p. 166 ...More
Royalton-Kisch, Martin and Peter Schatborn, 'The Core Group of Rembrandt Drawings, II: The List' in 'Master Drawings', Autumn 2011 - pp. 323-346; 49, 3
no. 52 on p. 339
fig. 127 on p. 339
as a study for the painting
Royalton-Kisch, Martin, Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school. Online research catalogue. https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_research_catalogues/rembrandt_drawings/drawings_by_rembrandt.aspx, 2010
under nos. 29, 43, 62, 119
Masterpieces of European painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York, 9 Mar. - 30 May 2010, 2010
pp. 35-36 under no. 3
fig. 3.1 on p. 36
Hautekeete, Stefaan, Les dessins de Rembrandt et ses élèves appartenant à la collection de Jean de Grez, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique-Bruxelles, Brussels 2005
p. 28 under no. 5
fig. 1 on p. 28
Rembrandt's Women, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh and Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2001
cat. no. 103
ill. on p. 187
Paintings & their context IV: Rembrandt's Girl at a window, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 1993
cat. no. 4
p. 12 and no. 4 on pp. 57-58
fig. 8 on p. 11
entry author: Martin Royalton-Kisch
Royalton-Kisch, Martin, Drawings by Rembrandt and his circle in the British Museum, London 1992
p. 155 under no. 69 and pp. 119-20
Collection for a King: Old Master paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 14 Apr. - 2 Sept. 1985; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 3 Oct. 1985 - 5 Jan. 1986, 1985-86
p. 100 under no. 26
ill. on p. 100
entry author: Christopher White
Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Galllery, 1983
cat. no. 20
Broos, Ben, Oude tekeningen in het bezit van de Gemeentmusea van Amsterdam, waaronder de collectie Fodor. Deel 3. Rembrandt en tekenaars uit zijn omgeving, Amsterdam 1981
under no. 14
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 192
Benesch, Otto, Collected Writing. I. Rembrandt, New York 1970
p. 122
Kitson, Michael, Rembrandt, London 1969
p. 86 under no. 25
Bredius, A., revised by H. Gerson, Rembrandt. The complete Edition of the Paintings, 1969
p. 579 under no. 368
Foucard, Jacques-Paul, 'Versos inédits des dessins de Rembrandt' in 'Oud-Holland', 1966; LXXXI
p. 50
Slive, S., Drawings of Rembrandt, New York 1965
vol. II, no. 469
ill.
Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 192
pl. XVII
dated 1645
Gelder, J.G. van, Prenten en Tekeningen (de Schoonheid van ons Land), Amsterdam 1958
pp. 31 (or 37?) and 95, no. 61
ill.
Benesch, Otto, Corpus der Rembrandtzeichnungen, 1954-73
vol. IV, no. 700
fig. 841
Benesch, Otto, Rembrandt's selected drawings, London and Oxford 1947
no. 143
Benesch, O., 'Rembrandt' in Thieme-Becker Künstler-Lexikon, 1935; XXIX
p. 265
Benesch, O., Rembrandt. Werk und Forschung, Vienna 1935
p. 38
Valentiner, W.R., Rembrandt. Des Meisters Handzeichnungen. Klassiker der Kunst, Stuttgart and Berlin 1934; xxxi, vol. II
no. 707 and p. 419
Benesch, Otto, 'Unbekanntes und Verkanntes von Rembrandt' in 'Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch', 1933-34; N.F., II-III
p. 304
Freise, K., K. Lilienfeld and H. Wichmann, Rembrandts Handzeichnungen iii, Staatliches Kupferstichkabinett und Sammlung Friedrich August II zu Dresden, 1925
no. 116 and p. 10
ill.
Hofstede de Groot, C., Original drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, The Hague 1911
4th series, part I, no. 25a
ill.
Lippmann, F., with the assistance of W. Bode, S. Colvin, F.S. Haden and J.P. Heseltine, Original Drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn reproduced in Phototype, four series, London, Paris and The Hague 1888-1911
vol. IV, no. 25a
ill.
Wurzbach, Alfred von, Niederländisches Künstlerlexikon, Vienna and Leipzig 1910
p. 417
Valentiner, W.R, Rembrandt. Des Meisters Gemälde. Klassiker der Kunst, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1908
p. 559 under no. 320
Hofstede de Groot, C., Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, Haarlem 1906
no. 308 and p. xxi
Bode, W. von, The complete work of Rembrandt, Paris 1900
vol. IV, p. 192 under no. 300
de Groot, Hofstede (intro text), 26 Photogravüren nach den schönsten Gemälden der Ausstellungen in London und Amsterdam, Jan.-Feb., 1899
under no. 10
wrongly stated to be signed and dated 1645
Michel, Emile, Rembrandt, sa vie, son oeuvre et son temps. 2 vols, Paris 1893
p. 578 ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): centre, graphite, modern hand: “21.a / H.d.G. [as in Hofstede de Groot] 308 38 I / 100345”.
Collector's mark: Recto: both lower right corner, stamped in black: Friedrich August II de Saxe (L.971) and Jean-Denis Lempereur (L.1740).
Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): centre, graphite, modern hand: “21.a / H.d.G. [as in Hofstede de Groot] 308 38 I / 100345”.
Collector's mark: Recto: both lower right corner, stamped in black: Friedrich August II de Saxe (L.971) and Jean-Denis Lempereur (L.1740).
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