Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

1606-1669

Old Scholar at His Writing Desk

ca. 1662

Reed pen and brown ink with white opaque watercolor.

5 x 4 1/8 inches (127 x 105 mm)

Thaw Collection.

1997.13

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Watermark: Three balls, below fragment of foolscap.

Provenance:

Friedrich August II of Saxony (1797-1854), Dresden (Lugt 971); A. & R. Ball, New York; L.V. Randall, Montreal; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 July 1967, lot 5, repr.; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, New York.

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Associated names:

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony, 1797-1854, former owner.
Randall, L. V., former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography:

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 331, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw. Part II. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985, no. 8, repr. (also in Thaw III, no. 21)
Denison, Cara D. The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and New Acquisitions. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, no. 21.
Stampfle, Felice and Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann. Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections. Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum; New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1960, no. 77, repr.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 78, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 226.

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