Rembrandt Workshop

A Woman Holding a Pink



Rembrandt Workshop - A Woman Holding a Pink



Rembrandt Workshop
A Woman Holding a Pink
1656
102.9 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 info
Bredius/Gerson 390 info
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


External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1937.1.75

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