Rembrandt - Smell


Discovered in 2015, this painting is part of a series of the five senses. At the moment only taste is still missing.




Rembrandt
Smell
c. 1625
21.6 x 17.8 cm
Oil on panel
Monogram upper right 'RF' or 'RHF'
The Leiden Collection, New York


Literature


Catalogues raisonnés
Manuth 120a
Giltaij 456



Provenance


Phillip Joshua Rappoport (1887–1961) and Minnie Shelkowitz Rappoport (1894–1974), Paterson, New Jersey, by the 1930s
by descent to their daughter Lila Landau (1929–2010) and her husband Walter Landau (1928–2011)
by descent to their sons Nathaniel, Roger, and Steven Landau, New Jersey
sale, Nye & Co., New Jersey, 22 September 2015, no. 216, as Continental School, “Triple Portrait with a Lady Fainting”, to Galerie Talabardon & Gautier, Paris
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2016

External links


Leiden Collection, New York Accession number RR-111

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