Rembrandt

A Polish Nobleman



Rembrandt - A Polish Nobleman



Rembrandt
A Polish Nobleman
1637
96.8 x 66 cm
Oil on oak
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 271
Bredius 211 info
Bauch 174
Gerson 186
Bredius/Gerson 211 info
Tümpel 137
Corpus III A 122
Corpus VI 155 info
Manuth 290
Giltaij 231

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 222-226
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 353

Literature
Ernst van de Wetering, Rembrandt in nieuw licht, Amsterdam, 2009, fig. 136


Provenance

Possibly Harman van Swol
possibly his sale, Jan Pietersz. Zomer, Amsterdam, 20 April 1707, nr. 15
acquired 1765 in Rotterdam by Philippus Florentinus Vergeloo, Antwerp for Count Johan Carl Philipp Cobenzl (1712-1770)
sold 1768 to Catherine II, empress of Russia (1729-1796), Saint Petersburg
Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg
sold February 1931 through Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, and M. Knoedler & Co., New York to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington
deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA


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