Reclining Lion

Reclining Lion

RP-T-1961-81

• Schatborn 53
• A. Müller-Schirmer, Grenzen im Licht. Uber Licht und Schatten in den Zeichnungen von Rembrandt, Oud Holland 121 (2008), nr. 1, p. 63

draughtsman: school of Rembrandt van Rijn, Amsterdam

c. 1650

pen en bruine inkt, met penseel en bruine inkt, witte dekverf; kaderlijnen in bruine inkt

height 141 mm x width 204 mm

De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

Public domain

...; collection Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust, 3rd Earl of Brownlow (1844-1921), Belton House, near Grantham;{According to an inscription on the drawing.} his sale, London (Sotheby´s), 29 June 1926 sqq., no. 28, £ 620, to the dealer P. & D. Colnaghi, London;{Copy RKD.}...; collection Isaäc de Bruijn (1872-1953) and his wife, Johanna Geertruida de Bruijn-van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Spiez and Muri, near Bern, by 1929;{London 1929, no. 623.} by whom donated to the museum (L. 2228), 1949, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum, 1960

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• Schatborn 53
• A. Müller-Schirmer, Grenzen im Licht. Uber Licht und Schatten in den Zeichnungen von Rembrandt, Oud Holland 121 (2008), nr. 1, p. 63

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