Recto: Portrait of an Old Man (Rembrandt's father)
Verso: Man slumped over in a Chair, clutching his Beard
Details
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Title
Recto: Portrait of an Old Man (Rembrandt's father)
Verso: Man slumped over in a Chair, clutching his Beard -
Artist/maker
Rembrandt (1606 - 1669) -
Associated place
Europe (place of creation) -
Date
1627 - 1630 -
Material and technique
recto: Red and black chalk, with brown wash, on paper (laid down on washed mount); arched
Verso: Red chalk, on paper -
Object type
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Dimensions
sheet 18.9 x 24 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Chambers Hall, 1855.
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Museum location
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1855.11
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Further reading
Graul, R., Fünfzig Zeichnungen von Rembrandt (Leipzig, 1906), 2
Hofstede de Groot, C., Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts: Versuch eines beschreibenden und kritischen Katalogs (Haarlem; E. Bohn, 1906), 1134
Colvin, S., Drawings of the Old Masters in the University Galleries and Library of Christ Church, III (Oxford, 1907), 24
Hind, Arthur Mayger, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, 2 vols, 2nd (London: Methuen, 1923), vol I, p. 84
Valentiner, W.R., Rembrandt. Des Meisters Handzeichnungen. Klassiker der Kunst, xxxi, vol. i (Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig, 1925), 669
Bauch, K., Die Kunst des jungen Rembrandt (Heidelberg, 1933), p. 197, fig. 135
Benesch, O., Rembrandt. Werk und Forschung (Vienna, 1935), p. 10
Parker, Karl Theodore, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, I, Netherlandish, German, French and Spanish Schools (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938), 182
Benesch, O., Rembrandt selected Drawings (London and Oxford, 1947), 14
Bauch, K., Der frühe Rembrandt und seine Zeit (Berlin, 1960), pp. 170-73
Benesch, Otto, The drawings of Rembrandt, 6 vols (London, 1973), 56
Tümpel, C, Rembrandt mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddocumenten (Hamburg, 1977), p. 11
Held, J.S., Der blinde Tobias und seine Heilung in Darstellungen Rembrandts im Rahmen seiner Illustrationen der Tobiasgeschichte (Heidelberg, 1980), p. 31, fig. 23
Schama, Simon, Rembrandt's eyes (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), p. 280
Rohde, Shelley, Rembrandt: an A to Z (Amsterdam, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Bussum, Thoth Publishers, 2005), p. 14
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