Study of a Lion Asleep

Study of a Lion Asleep

RP-T-1889-A-2044

Schatborn 109

• draftsman (artist): anonymous
• after drawing by Rembrandt van Rijn, Amsterdam

in or after c. 1650 - 1699

pen and brown ink, with brown wash and opaque white (oxidized), over traces of graphite, on paper toned with light brown wash; framing line in brown ink

height 80 mm x width 172 mm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1889

Public domain

…; sale, Baron Johan Gijsbert Verstolk, Heer van Soelen en Aldenhaag (1776-1845, The Hague and Soelen, near Tiel), Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 22 March 1847 sqq., Album F, no. 253, as Rembrandt (‘Dessin pareil au precedent [Une lion couché], mais un pue plus achevé, au bistre.’), fl. 112, to the dealer J. de Vries, Amsterdam;{According to the catalogue for the sale, Jacob de Vos Jbzn, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 22 May 1883 sqq., no. 409; copy RKD.} …; collection Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-78), Amsterdam (L. 1450), by 1868;{Vosmaer 1868, p. 461.} his widow, Abrahamina Henrietta de Vos-Wurfbain (1808-83), Amsterdam; his sale, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 22 May 1883 sqq., no. 409, as Rembrandt, fl. 820, to the dealer R.W.P. de Vries for the Vereniging Rembrandt (L. 2135);{According to an inscription on the drawing; copy RKD.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1883; from whom, with 166 other drawings, fl. 5,049 for all, to the museum (L. 2228), 1889

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