Rembrandt

Man with a Magnifying Glass



Rembrandt - Man with a Magnifying Glass



Rembrandt
Man with a Magnifying Glass
c. 1665
91.4 x 74.3 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


Related works

Pendant:

Rembrandt - Woman with a Pink
Rembrandt
Woman with a Pink
c. 1665

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 755
Bredius 326
Bauch 447 info
Gerson 417
Bredius/Gerson 326 info
Tümpel 223
Corpus VI 311a info
Manuth 259
Giltaij 359

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 158 info

Literature
Ernst van de Wetering, Rembrandt in nieuw licht, Amsterdam, 2009, fig. 237


Provenance

d'Oultremont family, until 1875
comte Florent d'Oultremont, Brussels, 1875–89
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 June 1889, nr. 7, to Sedelmeyer for Kann
Maurice Kann, Paris, 1889–d. 1906
his nephew, Edouard Kann, 1906–9, sold to Duveen
with Duveen, New York, 1909, sold to Altman
Benjamin Altman, New York, 1909–died 1913

External links

RKD 58654
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 14.40.62

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