- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1970.23
- People
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
- Title
- Study of Saskia(?); verso: Woman Holding a Child(?)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1635-1639
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/296500
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Brown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: brown ink on light tan antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 7 x 6.3 cm (2 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: none
- Provenance
- [Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 16 October 1928, lot 66, from Collection Six], sold; to Alex Cantacuzène, The Hague. [Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1970.
NOTE: Valentiner, 1934, refers to Jan Six as one of the owners.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
- Accession Year
- 1970
- Object Number
- 1970.23
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Seymour Slive, "Rembrandt at Harvard", Apollo (June 1978), vol. 107, no. 196, pp. 452-463, p. 455, repr. p. 457, fig. 9 (recto) and fig. 10 (verso)
The Drawings of Rembrandt: a revision of Otto Benesch's catalogue raisonné, website, 2012, "Not in Benesch" and under Benesch 163, repr. under "attr. to Rembrandt and Copies"
- Exhibition History
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Rembrandt: A Selection of his Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/18/1984 - 12/11/1984
- Subjects and Contexts
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Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
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