Recto: Portrait of an Old Man (Rembrandt's father)
Verso: Man slumped over in a Chair, clutching his Beard
On display
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
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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
Third floor | Gallery 61 | Special Exhibitions -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1855.11
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Further reading
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
Lloyd, Christopher, Dürer to Cézanne: Northern European drawings from the Ashmolean Museum (New Brunswick, N.J., J.V. Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1982), 45
Brown, Christopher, Master drawings, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2013), 24
Rohde, Shelley, Rembrandt: an A to Z (Amsterdam, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Bussum, Thoth Publishers, 2005), p. 14
Schama, Simon, Rembrandt's eyes (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), p. 280
Benesch, Otto, The drawings of Rembrandt, 6 vols (London, 1973), 56
Hofstede de Groot, C., Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts: Versuch eines beschreibenden und kritischen Katalogs (Haarlem; E. Bohn, 1906), 1134
Graul, R., Fünfzig Zeichnungen von Rembrandt (Leipzig, 1906), 2
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
Bauch, K., Die Kunst des jungen Rembrandt (Heidelberg, 1933), p. 197, fig. 135
Valentiner, W.R., Rembrandt. Des Meisters Handzeichnungen. Klassiker der Kunst, xxxi, vol. i (Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig, 1925), 669
Benesch, O., Rembrandt. Werk und Forschung (Vienna, 1935), p. 10
Benesch, O., Rembrandt selected Drawings (London and Oxford, 1947), 14
Tümpel, C, Rembrandt mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddocumenten (Hamburg, 1977), p. 11
Bauch, K., Der frühe Rembrandt und seine Zeit (Berlin, 1960), pp. 170-73
Held, J.S., Der blinde Tobias und seine Heilung in Darstellungen Rembrandts im Rahmen seiner Illustrationen der Tobiasgeschichte (Heidelberg, 1980), p. 31, fig. 23
