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Old man with a long coat and a large hat

Maker

Workshop of

1606-1669

Formerly attributed to

1606-1669

Title

Old man with a long coat and a large hat

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines trimmed away on all but the bottom edge

Dimensions

Height: 15 cm
Width: 9.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.197

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

Montagu Henry Edmund Cecil Towneley-Bertie, 8th Earl of Abingdon (1887-1963); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 17 July 1935?; Victor Koch, Hampstead (1867-1959); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1937; Princes Gate Bequest 1978 See Long description for more re: Victor Koch.

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Galllery, 1983
cat. no. 29

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 197
pl. XXII
dated c. 1656 or slightly later, convinced verso is Rembrandt's handwriting

Benesch, Otto, Corpus der Rembrandtzeichnungen, 1954-73
vol. VI, A 96a
fig. 1696
under 'Attributions' and therefore not given wholly to Rembrandt ...More

'Erstmals publiziert Rembrandt' in 'Wiener Kurier', 11 Apr. 1953
ill.

Münz, L., 'Eine unpublizierte Ziechnung Rembrandts' in 'Alte und Neue Kunst', 1952; I
pp. 152ff
ill.
dated c. 1658 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: whole sheet, brown ink, Drost's hand, and has obviously been trimmed down from a larger sheet as is cut off at all edges, transcribed by Peter Schatborn (e-mail in file from 2011) and concerns a list of prints of Biblical scenes especially the Life of the Virgin; the lines at the end of sentences was typical of a civil servant to precent anyone from adding words: "[...] racht van [...] / heromijt elshamer / [na]er del migelangel / [...] / [m]aria van gwijdo [Guido Reno] / [...]ius van christus ant [or 'tat'?] / [...] stuck / [j]oseph en marija / munneken van muts [Muziano] / [a]ndr munneken / [g]roetenis [verkondiging] barotius [Barocci] / ouwe munick carats [Carracci] / [...] op de scho [schoot?] / maria met d enghel / [m]aria madaleen / [m]unnick van baroosius [Barocci] / ovael maria [in en ovaal] / [...] maria / [...]"; lower left corner, graphite, very small and unclear but looks to be the same as on D.1978.PG.179: "Size 1 [?]".

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