Reclining Lion

Reclining Lion

RP-T-1961-81

Schatborn 53

draftsman (artist): school of Rembrandt van Rijn, Amsterdam

c. 1650

pen and brown ink, with brown wash and opaque white; framing line in brown ink

height 141 mm x width 204 mm

De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

bequest 1961

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

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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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