School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Seated Woman, Half-length, Holding a Baby, and Detail of her Head
ca. 1650
3 1/16 x 2 1/4 inches (78 x 57 mm)
Pen and brown ink on paper; framing line in brown ink.
I, 179
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, at lower left, in graphite, "Rembrand"; below this, in brown ink, "Rembrandt No ["o" in superscript]- 7 ..."; on the old backing, now removed, in graphite, trimmed along right margin, "Strawberry Hill... / Sketch for his... [written twice] / Wife & Child... [written twice] / Painting at... / Horace Walpole... / at Strawberry Hill in 1842..."; on the verso of this old backing, in an older hand, in graphite, "Paijnon dijonval / & Horace / Walpole / Strawberry Hill / 1842 / lot 9 p 15".
Associated names
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669, Formerly attributed to.
Paignon-Dijonval, 1708-1792, former owner.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Paignon-Dijonval, 1708-1792, former owner.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 179, repr. (as Rembrandt).
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 248.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 248.
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Century Drawings
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