Rembrandt
Man with a Magnifying Glass
c. 166591.4 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
c. 1665
Woman with a Pink
c. 1665
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 755
Bredius 326
Bauch 447
Gerson 417
Bredius/Gerson 326
Tümpel 223
Corpus VI 311a
Manuth 259
Giltaij 359
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 158
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
Other works by Rembrandt
Portrait of Philips Lucasz.
1635
1635
Evangelist Writing
c. 1665
c. 1665
A Young Woman in Profile with a Fan
1632
1632
An Elderly Man as Saint Paul
Probably 1659
Probably 1659
Portrait of an Old Man
c. 1660
c. 1660