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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2022.276
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Kneeling Shepherd
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/93394

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
12.9 x 12.6 cm (5 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: P14
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Verz. Hute (aide a liter [?]) / 12 1/2 x 1 4/6 [?] / x [underlined] 7 1/2 19 1/2 x 90 1/2
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, red ink, stamped twice: CED [encircled] [Lugt 533a, mark of Carl Emile Duits]
  • watermark: at right edge, nearest URC: Basel Crozier, partial, with letters: NH over M

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Carel Emile Duits, London (Lugt 533a), by descent to his heirs. [Stephen Somerville, London], sold; to George Abrams, Boston, 2003, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2022

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Edward "Ned" Johnson, Harvard Class of 1954
Accession Year
2022
Object Number
2022.276
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, Phaidon Press (Oxford, 1954 - 1957), vol. 1, cat. no. 58, p. 21, repr. as fig. 66
  • Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt [enlarged ed.], Phaidon Press (Oxford, 1973), vol. I, p. 21, cat. no 58, repr. as fig. 68
  • 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. 50-51, cat. no. 6, repr. p. 51
  • Peter Schatborn and Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt: The Complete Drawings and Etchings, Taschen (Cologne, 2019), cat. no. D196, p. 153, repr.

Exhibition History

  • 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

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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