Seated Female Nude by Rembrandt van Rijn
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Seated Female Nude

Rembrandt van Rijn · 1660/62

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Louis Corot (c. 1840–c. 1930), Nimes [stamp (Lugt 1718), recto, lower left, in black]; sold to Richard (an art dealer), Paris, in 1924 [Lugt 1718]. Alfred Strölin (1871–1954) and/or his son Alfred Strölin (1912–1974), Paris and Lausanne, by 1935 [Benesch 1935]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Bern, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Bern, Rembrandt, Apr. 18–May 30, 1937, p. 45, cat. 198.
  • Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Rembrandt, May 18–Aug. 5, 1956, pp. 171–172, cat. 237, pl. 64; also Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Aug. 8–Oct. 21, 1956.
  • New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, Mar. 15–Apr. 16, 1960, pp. 52–53, cat. 74, pl. 66; also Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Apr. 27–May 29, 1960.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 17–Nov. 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 32.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years, Oct. 25–Dec. 7, 1969, pp. 176 and 228–229 (ill.), cat. 137; also the Detroit Institute of Art, Feb. 24–Apr. 5, 1970; and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Dec. 22, 1969–Feb. 1, 1970.
  • Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, Jan. 30–Mar. 13, 1977; also The Denver Art Museum, Apr. 1–May 15, 1977, and the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., June 1–July 10, 1977, cat. 40, pp. 45–47.
  • Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Dutch Figure Drawings from the Seventeenth Century, Apr. 11–June 30, 1982, frontis; pp. 56–57 (fig. 2) and 142, cat. 84; also Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Dec. 19, 1981–Feb. 21, 1982.
  • Cambridge, Mass., Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Rembrandt and His School: Drawings from the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, Dec. 2, 1989–Jan. 28, 1990 (no cat).
  • Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop, Dec. 4, 1991–Jan. 19, 1992, cat. 38, pp. 126-127 (ill.); also Berlin, Altes Museum, Sept. 12–Oct. 27, 1991.
  • London, Royal Academy of Arts, Rembrandt's Women, Sept. 22–Dec. 16, 2001, p. 46 (detail ill), p. 50, cat. 135 (ill.), p. 232.
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, Oct. 26, 2003–Jan. 18, 2004, pp. 287–288 (ill.), 290–291, and 331, cat. 200; also the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 14–May 9, 2004.
  • Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference, Dec. 8, 2009–Feb. 28, 2010, p. 236 and 261, cat. 41.1.

Literature

Published references

  • Société de Reproduction des Dessins de Maîtres (Paris, 1913), vol. V, n.p. (ill.).
  • Otto Benesch, Rembrandt Werk und Forschung (Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1935), p. 57.
  • A. A. Sidorov, Risunki starykh masterov; tekhnika, teoriia, istoriia (Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo “Iskusstvo”, 1940), p. 242 (ill.).
  • Hanna Prinz, Das Thema des Weiblichen Aktes in Meister-und Schülerzeichnungen aus Rembrandt's Spätzeit (Marburg, 1945), p. 100 and 126.
  • Jakob Rosenberg, Rembrandt (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1948), vol. I, p. 153; vol. II, pl. 222.
  • Harold Joachim, "Three Drawings by Rembrandt," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 48 (Feb. 1954), pp. 10–12 (ill.).
  • Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d’Estampes (The Hague, 1956), p. 239, no. 1718; and online edition by the Fondation Custodia, consulted 08/09/2018, http://www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/8198/total/1
  • Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt (London: Phaidon, 1957), vol. V, p. 303, no. 1122, fig. 1418.
  • "Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections," Arts Magazine (Mar. 1960), p. 28 (ill.).
  • Roger-Marx, Claude, Rembrandt (Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1960), pp. 293–294, no. 121b (ill).
  • Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time (New York: Shorewood Publishers, Inc, 1962), vol. II, no. 599 (ill.).
  • Alfred Frankfurter, "'Il Bon Disegno' from Chicago," Art News, 62 (Nov. 1963), pp. 30 fig. 8, 57-58.

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