Follower of Rembrandt
Study of an Old Man
probably late 17th century28 x 21.5 cm
Oil on oak
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Widener Collection
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Bredius 243 (as Rembrandt)
Bredius/Gerson 243
Giltaij 267 (follower of Rembrandt)
Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 336-338 (as Follower of Rembrandt)
Provenance
with Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, London
sold 1905 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
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
Saint John the Evangelist
Old Woman Plucking a Fowl
1650/55
1650/55
Vanitas Still Life
The Raising of the Cross
Portrait of Rembrandt, Drawing in a Sketchbook