ATTRIBUTED TO REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (LEIDEN 1606-1669 AMSTERDAM)

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Lot 53 | ATTRIBUTED TO REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (LEIDEN 1606-1669 AMSTERDAM)
ATTRIBUTED TO REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (LEIDEN 1606-1669 AMSTERDAM)

A seated old man reading

pen and brown ink

8.8 x 7.9 cm (3 3/8 x 3 1/8 in.)





Provenance

Max Liebermann (1847-1935), Berlin, by 1930; by descent to his wife,

Martha Liebermann (1857-1943), Berlin; by descent to her daughter,

Käthe (Katherine) Riezler (1885-1952), Berlin, according to Benesch (op. cit., 1973, V, p. 295), ‘left behind’ when she moved to New York.

Private collection, United Kingdom.



Literature

O. Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, V, London, 1957, no. 1079, fig. 1299 (as Rembrandt).

O. Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, London, 1973, V, no. 1079, fig. 1370 (as Rembrandt).

K.H. and A. Janda, ‘Max Liebermann als Kunstsammler. Die Entstehung seiner Sammlung und ihre Zeitgenössische Wirkung’, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Forschungen und Berichte. Kunsthistorische und Volkskundliche Beiträge, XV, 1973, p. 107, no. 117 (as Rembrandt).

B. Hedinger et al., Max Liebermann. Die Kunstsammlung. Von Rembrandt bis Manet, Munich, 2013, no. SL 188, ill. (as formerly attributed to Rembrandt).



Exhibited

M.J. Friedländer, Rembrandt-Ausstellung, exhib. cat., Berlin, Staatliche Preußische Museen, 1930, no. 363 (as Rembrandt).
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