Three Women and a Child by a Door

Three Women and a Child by a Door

RP-T-1889-A-2056

Rembrandt took visible pleasure in drawing domestic scenes of women and children. Collectors, too, were clearly charmed by them. When the painter and collector Jan van de Cappelle died in 1679, he left behind an album containing 135 drawings ‘being the life of women with children by Rembrandt.’ Perhaps this splendid drawing was one of them.

Schatborn 27

draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn, Amsterdam

c. 1645

pen en bruine inkt; kaderlijnen in bruine inkt

height 233 mm x width 178 mm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1889

Public domain

...; collection Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-78), Amsterdam;{According to an inscription on the drawing.} his sale, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 22 May 1883 sqq., no. 424, with fifteen other drawings, as school of Rembrandt, fl. 480, to J.H. Balfoort (active 1853-83), Utrecht, for the Vereniging Rembrandt (L. 2135);{Copy RKD; note RMA.} from whom, fl. 5,049, with 166 other drawings, to the museum (L. 2228), 1889

Schatborn 27

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