Follower of Rembrandt

Head of an Aged Woman



Follower of Rembrandt - Head of an Aged Woman



Follower of Rembrandt
Head of an Aged Woman
1655/60
21.1 x 17.5 cm
Oil on oak
Inscribed center left by a later hand: Rembrandt / f.1657
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Widener Collection


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Bredius 392 (as Rembrandt)
Bauch 273 info
Bredius/Gerson 392 info
Giltaij 427 (follower of Rembrandt)

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 330-333 (as Follower of Rembrandt)


Provenance

Probably H. Verschuring, The Hague, by 1751
Gottfried Winkler (1731-1795), Leipzig, by 1765
possibly with Stéphane Bourgeois (Bourgeois Frères), Paris, in 1893/1894
Rodolphe Kann, Paris, by 1898
purchased 1907 with the entire Kann collection by Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris
sold to F. Kleinberger & Co., Paris
by exchange to Leo Nardus (1868-1955), Suresnes, France, and New York
by exchange early 1909 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park
gift 1942 to NGA

External links

RKD 232528
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1942.9.64

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