Study of a Standing Cleric, Holding a Book

Study of a Standing Cleric, Holding a Book

RP-T-1897-A-3364

• draftsman (artist): attributed to Jan de Bray, Haarlem (possibly)
• draftsman (artist): Dirck de Bray [rejected attribution]

c. 1660 - c. 1665

black and white chalk, with oiled charcoal, on blue-grey paper; framing line in black ink

height 375 mm x width 225 mm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1897-03

Public domain

…; collection Dirk Vis Blokhuyzen (1799-1869), Rotterdam;{According to the catalogue for the sale, William Pitcairn Knowles, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 _sqq_., no. 112} his sale, Rotterdam (D.A. Lamme), 23 October 1871 _sqq_., no. 95, fl. 0:50, with inv. no. RP-T-1897-A-3364 and one other drawing, to the dealer D.A. Lamme, Rotterdam;{Copy RKD} ...; collection J. Werneck (d. 1893), Frankfurt-am-Main (L. 2561); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 23 June 1895 _sqq._, no. 37, fl. [illegible], with inv. no. RP-T-1897-A-3363, to William Pitcairn Knowles; collection William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 _sqq_., no. 112, with inv. no. RP-T-1897-A-3363, fl. 11, to the dealer F. Muller, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD} ...; from the Vereniging Rembrandt, with 73 other drawings, fl. 3.253,50, to the museum, March 1897

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