Kostverloren Castle in Decay by Rembrandt van Rijn
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Kostverloren Castle in Decay

Rembrandt van Rijn · c. 1652

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. King Friedrich August II of Saxony (1797–1854), Dresden [stamp (Lugt 971), recto, lower right, in black]; and by descent, to at least 1925 [Friese, Lilienfeld, and Wichmann 1925].  Willem J. R. Dreesmann (1885–1954), Amsterdam; sold, F. Muller & Co., Mar. 22–25, 1960, lot 26, to Richard Zinser, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Rembrandt, May 18–Aug. 5, 1956, p. 130, cat. 173; also, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Aug. 8–Oct. 21, 1956.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 17–Nov. 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 30, pl. 13a.
  • Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rembrandt 1669/1969, Sept. 13–Nov. 30, 1969, p. 245, cat. 127 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958–1983, July 24–Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 80–81, cat. 31 (ill.); also Saint Louis Art Museum, Mar. 25–May 4, 1986.
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, Oct. 26, 2003–Jan. 18, 2004, pp. 279–80  (ill. p.. 279) and 330, cat. no. 193; also the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 14–May 9, 2004.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 258, 260 (Ill.), 308, 334,(ill.), cat. 105, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

Published references

  • Emile Michel, Rembrandt, sa Vie, son Oeuvre, et son Temps (Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1893), p. 579.
  • C. Hofstede de Groot, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts (Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn, 1906), no. 320, p. 77-78.
  • F. Lippmann and C. Hofstede de Groot, Original Drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn: reproduced in the colours of the originals by Emrik & Binger at Haarlem (The Hague, 1911), series IV, part I, no. 23 (ill.).
  • Max Eisler, Rembrandt als Landschafter (Munich: F. Bruckmann A.-G., 1918), p. 8, pl. 44; pp. 86–88.
  • Frits Lugt, Mit Rembrandt in Amsterdam (Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1920), pp. 107–12, fig. 66.
  • Hermann Friese, K. Lilienfeld, and Heinrich Wichmann, Rembrandts  Handzeichnungen (Dresden: Hermann Freise, 1925), vol. III, p. 22, no. 128.
  • Otto Benesch, Rembrandt Werk und Forschung (Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1935), p. 47.
  • Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt (London: Phaidon, 1957), vol. VI, no. 1270 (ill.).
  • Terence Mullaly, “£17,485 is Paid for Interior by De Hooch,” Daily Telegraph and Morning Post (Mar. 23, 1960), p. 15 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1960–1961), pp. 11 and 19 (ill.).
  • The Art Quarterly (Autumn 1961), pp. 306 (ill.) and 312.
  • Seymour Slive, Drawings by Rembrandt, II (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1965), pl. 466.

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