Rembrandt Workshop
A Woman Holding a Pink
1656102.9 x 86 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated upper right: Rembrandt. / f.1656
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Bredius 390 (as Rembrandt)
Bauch 515
Bredius/Gerson 390
Giltaij 425 (Rembrandt workshop)
Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 321-326 (as Rembrandt Workshop)
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 361 (as Rembrandt)
Provenance
Pierre Crozat (1665-1740), Paris, before 1740
by inheritance to his nephews, first to Louis-François Crozat, marquis du Châtel (1691-1750), Paris, and then (on Louis-François' death without a male heir) to Louis-Antoine Crozat, baron de Thiers (1699-1770), Paris
the latter's heirs
purchased 1772, through Denis Diderot (1713-1784) as an intermediary, by Catherine II, empress of Russia (1729-1796), for the Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg
sold March 1931, as a painting by Rembrandt, through Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, and M. Knoedler & Co., New York to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA
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Oriental Man
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The Descent from the Cross
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c. 1650/52
Portrait of Philips Lucasz.
1635
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A Young Woman in Profile with a Fan
1632
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