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Farm buildings on the banks of a canal

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1606-1669

Title

Farm buildings on the banks of a canal

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper prepared with a brown wash (Rijksmuseum is investigating Rembrandt's corpus of 'toned' papers to see how many are intentional, but his finished landscapes do tend to be on brown paper, per presentation given by Ilona van Tuinen and Leila Sauvage at 2020 symposium. Here the verso is starkly whiter, and under the miscrope, added pigments are visible in the recto paper fibres).

Dimensions

Height: 6.2 cm
Width: 16.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.200

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





Related Works

Blank sheet - former backing sheet to D.1978.PG.200 Architectural sketch - former backing sheet to D.1978.PG.200

Provenance

18th-century French collection (formerly in a small album which bore the title 'Plusieurs petites Exquises et desains', removed before 1943; rest of the album acquired by the British Museum); Marshall Spink of Spink & Son (London); purchased from him by Dr Ernst Sklarz, London (1894-1975), by December 1943 [this acquisition date already in Modes, no evidence for why this date]; purchased from Dr and Mrs Sklarz by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 25 January 1956 (£1,350); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Gnann, A,. Rembrandt : Landschaftszeichnungen - Landscape Drawings Petersberg, 2021.
p. 241
Fig. 221

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 no. 83
"its attribution to Rembrandt is in the compiler's opinion uncertain"

Royalton-Kisch, Martin, Drawings by Rembrandt and his circle in the British Museum, London 1992
under no. 82 ...More

Drawings by Rembrandt in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Galllery, 1983
cat. no. 25

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 200
pl. XXV
dated c. 1650 or somewhat later

Benesch, Otto, Corpus der Rembrandtzeichnungen, 1954-73
vol. VI, no. 1317 and under no. 1316
fig. 1549
dated c. 1653

Hind, A.M., 'Two sketches by Rembrandt' in 'The Connoisseur', 1943; CXII
p. 128
Fig. p. no. II on p. 128 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: top of a large crown, as from a Strasburg lily (see tracing in file; 2.6 cm between chain lines).

Inscription: none, though see erased modern inscription on former backing sheet D.1978.PG.200.1.

Collector's mark: none.

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