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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.101
People
Follower of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Portrait of an Old Man
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1650-1655
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227666

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
85.8 x 65.4 cm (33 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.)
framed: 109.8 x 94.8 x 10.8 cm (43 1/4 x 37 5/16 x 4 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: back of frame: 243.1986
  • exhibition label: back of frame, black ink, printed: Rembrandt after Three Hundred Years, catalogue no. 14
  • label: back of frame, black ink, printed: Owned by Mrs. Nathan Allen of Kenosha, Wisconsin; lent December 8, 1924

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
C. Lesser, London. Charles Albert Waltner, Paris. W. A. Slater, Norwich, Connecticut. [M. Knoedler & Co., New York]. Nathan R. Allen, Sr., Kenosha, Wisconsin by 1936. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Allen, Greenwich, Connecticut, by 1969. William A. Coolidge, Ipswich, Massachusetts, by 1973, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1985.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William A. Coolidge
Accession Year
1985
Object Number
1985.101
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
  • Tom Rassieur and George S. Keyes, Rembrandt in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship, exh. cat., Skira Rizzoli (New York, NY, 2011), p. 136, cat. no. 30 p. 189, repr. p. 133 as pl. 37
  • Jeroen Giltaij, Het grote Rembrandt boek: Alle 684 schilderijen, WBOOKS (Zwolle, 2022), p. 202, no. 311, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Rembrandt in America, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 10/30/2011 - 01/22/2012; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 02/19/2012 - 05/28/2012; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 06/24/2012 - 09/16/2012

Verification Level

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