Rembrandt

Portrait of a Woman in an Armchair



Rembrandt - Portrait of a Woman in an Armchair



Rembrandt
Portrait of a Woman in an Armchair
1633
125.7 x 101 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Helen Swift Neilson, 1943


Related works

Pendant:

Rembrandt and (perhaps) workshop - Portrait of a man rising from a chair
Rembrandt and (perhaps) workshop
Portrait of a man rising from a chair
1633

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 881
Bredius 341
Bauch 469 info
Gerson 141
Bredius/Gerson 341 info
Corpus II A 79
Tümpel 232
Corpus VI 88b info
Manuth 234
Giltaij 374

Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, European paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, New York, 1995, p. 314 info
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 146 info

Literature
Christopher Brown, Jan Kelch & Pieter van Thiel, Rembrandt, New Haven; London, 1991, fig. 122
Stephanie S. Dickey (ed.), Rembrandt and his circle, Amsterdam, 2017, fig. 1.15
Jan Six, Rembrandt's Portrait of a Young Gentleman, Amsterdam, 2018, fig. 69


Exhibitions

2019 Inside Rembrandt 1606-1669, Nr. 59
2003 Rembrandt Rembrandt, Nr. 17
1990 Great Dutch Paintings in America, Nr. 52

Provenance

George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, Petworth House, Sussex, by 1822–died 1837
his nephew, George Francis Wyndham, 4th Earl of Egremont, Petworth House, 1837–died 1845
the 3rd Earl's son, Colonel George Wyndham, later 1st Baron Leconfield, Petworth House, 1845–died 1869
Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield, Petworth House, 1869–died 1901
Charles Henry Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield, Petworth House, 1901–28
with Knoedler, London and New York, 1928, sold to Scott & Fowles
with Scott & Fowles, New York, 1928–30, sold to Neilson
Helen Swift (Mrs. Francis) Neilson, Chicago (1930–43)

External links

RKD 32562
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 43.125

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