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A Brook with a Grotto and a Boat

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

A Brook with a Grotto and a Boat

1645
Etching and drypoint on paper.
127 x 134 mm
RvR 324
NHD number
NHD 220, I
Notes
Watermark: None.
Cf. drawing in Lubomirski Museum, Lwow (Benesch 817). (White and Boon)
The boat has a high bow outlined with drypoint, which projects beyond the mouth of the grotto. (White and Boon)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated lower right, "Rembrandt 1645".
Provenance

Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (1786-1859), London and Packington Hall, Warwickshire; John Heywood Hawkins (1803-1877), London and Bignor Park; Walter Francis, 5th Duke of Buccleuch (1806-1884), London and Dalkeith; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.

Associated names
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1786-1859, former owner.
Buccleuch, Walter Francis Scott, Duke of, 1806-1884, former owner.
Hawkins, John Heywood, 1803-1877, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School