Rembrandt
The Rampart near the Bulwark
c. 1649-50142 x 179 mm
Pen and wash in bistre, and rust-brownish pen strokes in the slope, some highlights scraped in with the knife, on brown prepared paper
Private collection
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 854
Benesch 1217
Schatborn D609
Collection catalogues
Michael Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Northern European Drawings, Turin: London: Venice, 2002, nr. 1491
Literature
Achim Gnann, Rembrandt, Petersberg, 2021, fig. 167
Provenance
Dr Johannes Furnerius (partly cut off)
N.A. Flinck (L. 959)
William, 2nd Duke of Devonshire from 1723-1724
by descent to the 11th Duke
sale Christie's, London, 6 July 1987, nr. 13
with Richard Day, London, by 1991
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