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Bust of a Bearded Old Man in a Fur-Bordered Cap

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Bust of a Bearded Old Man in a Fur-Bordered Cap

ca. 1634-1636
3 1/16 x 2 1/2 inches (78 x 64 mm)
Pen and brown ink, with traces of correction in opaque white at back of fur-border on cap, on paper; traces of framing line in brown ink.
I, 174e

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none.
This drawing and nos. I, 174a, I, 174b, I, 174c, and I, 174d have apparently been mounted together on one mat since at least 1908.
Associated names
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Riggall, Edward, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice and Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann. Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections. Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum; New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1960, no. 17, 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. 205.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department