Lion at Rest and Sketch of its Hind Quarters

Lion at Rest and Sketch of its Hind Quarters

RP-T-1901-A-4525

Schatborn 107

• draftsman (artist): anonymous
• after drawing by Rembrandt van Rijn, Amsterdam
• draftsman (artist): Bernard Picart [rejected attribution]

after c. 1650 - 1699

pen and brown ink, with brown wash and opaque white, over traces of graphite; framing line in brown ink

height 152 mm x width 201 mm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1901-04

Public domain

…; collection Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767), Augsburg;{According to an inscription on the drawing.} acquired from his heirs by Johann August Gottlieb Weigel (1773-1846), Leipzig;{According to the catalogue for the sale, Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 15 May 1883 sqq., no. 810} his sons, Rudolph Weigel (1804-67), Leipzig, and Theodor Oswald Weigel (1812-81), Leipzig; his sale, Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 15 May 1883 sqq., no. 810, DM 96, to the dealer A. Duss, Stuttgart;{Copy RKD.} …; collection William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2634); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 (26) June 1895 sqq., no. 531, as Rembrandt, fl. 200, to the dealer C.F. Roos for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{According to an inscription on the drawing; copy RKD.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1895; from whom, fl. 224, to the museum (L. 2228), 1901

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