Rembrandt
Portrait of a Man in a Tall Hat
c. 1663121.3 x 94 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Widener Collection
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 781
Bredius 313
Bauch 437
Gerson 401
Bredius/Gerson 313
Tümpel 219 (not entirely convinced of authenticity)
Giltaij 345 (circle of Rembrandt)
Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 276-279
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 364
Provenance
Stanislaw August Poniatowski, king of Poland (1732-1798)
with Mr. Noe, Munich
Gasser collection, Vienna
Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773-1859)
purchased by Otto Mündler, Paris
sold 1865 to Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st baron Wimborne (1835-1914), Canford Manor, Dorsetshire
with Arthur J. Sulley & Co., London
Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, by 1912
inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
gift 1942 to NGA
Other works by Rembrandt
Titus, the Artist's Son
c. 1657
c. 1657
Lieven Willemsz. van Coppenol
Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves
1648
1648
Portrait of a Man
Bust of an Old Woman
1630
1630