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Old Scholar at His Writing Desk

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Old Scholar at His Writing Desk

ca. 1662
5 x 4 1/8 inches (127 x 105 mm)
Reed pen and brown ink with white opaque watercolor.
1997.13

Thaw Collection.

Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Three balls, below fragment of foolscap.
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department