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Object Number

1.2018.139

People

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)

Title

Two Figures in Polish Dress; verso: Bust-Length Figure of a Woman Looking to Right

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Two Standing Figures in Oriental Dress; verso: Head of a Woman

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1641-1642

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/182204

Medium

Black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

11.1 x 7.8 cm (4 3/8 x 3 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: verso, lower left, red ink: CED [encircled] [Lugt 533a, mark of Carl Emile Duits]
• collector's mark: verso, lower irght, blue ink: M G A [in monogram] [Lugt 3306, mark of Maida and George Abrams]

Credit Line

The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift

Accession Year

2018

Object Number

1.2018.139

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt [enlarged ed.], Phaidon Press (Oxford, 1973), IV, no. 665a, fig. 804

William W. Robinson, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), pp. 120-121, cat. no. 47b, repr. p. 121

Ivan Gaskell, Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist

Peter C. Sutton and William W. Robinson, Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Bruce Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2011), pp. 18, 52-53, cats. nos. 7 & 8, repr. p. 53

Peter Schatborn and Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt: The Complete Drawings and Etchings, Taschen (Cologne, 2019), cat. no. D418, p. 259, repr.

Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, British Museum, London, 06/13/2002 - 09/22/2002; Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 10/10/2002 - 12/08/2002; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/22/2003 - 07/06/2003

Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 09/09/2006 - 12/10/2006

Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, 09/24/2011 - 01/08/2012; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 04/15/2012 - 07/08/2012

Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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