1953.28: Portrait of a Man

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1953.28

People

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

Title

Portrait of a Man

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1652

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297350

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash, black chalk, white opaque watercolor, and scratchwork on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

actual: 18.6 x 15.8 cm (7 5/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: foolscap with seven points, 4 and three balls below [compare general group in Ash and Fletcher 1998, p. 112, section D and Hinterding 2006, p. 142, section D, both ca. 1654]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Franz Koenigs, Haarlem, before 1923, transferred; [1] Lisser & Rosenthal bank, Hamburg, 1940, sold; [through Jacques Goudstikker Gallery]; to D. G. van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1940, gift; to Lucas Hermann Peterich, his son-in-law. [Charles Albert de Burlet, Basel], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1953

Notes
[1] Koenigs's collection was used as collateral for a long term loan through the bank Lisser & Rosenkranz. The bank voted to liquidate on April 2, 1940 and the repayment of the loan was required immediately. The drawings and paintings which were used as collateral were therefore transferred to the ownership of the bank.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Annie Swan Coburn and Alpheus Hyatt Funds

Accession Year

1953

Object Number

1953.28

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 51, p. 13
• Felice Stampfle and Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY, 1960), cat. no. 71, pp. 51-52, repr. pl. 63, fig. 71
• Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), no. 14
• Seymour Slive, "Rembrandt at Harvard", Apollo (June 1978), vol. 107, no. 196, pp. 452-463, p. 458, repr. p. 461, fig. 14
• Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 18, p. 27
• The Drawings of Rembrandt: a revision of Otto Benesch's catalogue raisonné, website, 2012, Benesch A80a

Exhibition History

• An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
• Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
• Rembrandt: A Selection of his Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/18/1984 - 12/11/1984
• Rembrandt and His School: Drawings from the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 12/02/1989 - 01/28/1990
• Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
• Rembrandt Prints & Drawings, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, 11/05/2008 - 12/14/2008

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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