Style of Rembrandt
Portrait of a Man Seated in an Armchair
108.3 x 82.6 cmOil on canvas
Inscribed upper right: Rembrandt f. / 1638
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Bredius 215 (as Rembrandt)
Bauch 383
Bredius/Gerson 215
Giltaij 235 (not by Rembrandt)
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, European paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, New York, 1995, p. 314
Charles Sterling, Maryan W. Ainsworth, Charles Talbot, Martha Wolff, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Jonathan Brown, John Hayes, The Robert Lehman Collection, New York, Princeton, 1998, nr. 32
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 163
Provenance
Probably Mrs. J. E. Fiseau
her sale, Amsterdam, 30 August 1797, nr. 184, as Rembrandt, to Van Santen
earl of Mansfield (bought at a sale in London about 1818)
David William, third earl of Mansfield, Scone Palace, Perth, still in 1909, possibly 1910
with R. Langton Douglas, London
with M. Knoedler and Co., New York, sold to Lehman, April 1911
Philip Lehman, 1911
Other works by Rembrandt
The Standard Bearer
In or after 1636
In or after 1636
Man in Armor (Mars?)
second or third quarter 17th century
second or third quarter 17th century
Portrait of a Man with a Breastplate and Plumed Hat
Rembrandt's Son, Titus
Diana Bathing
Late 1630s
Late 1630s