drawing
- Museum number
- 1836,0811.64
- Description
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Full-length study of a woman wearing a scarf; standing to front, her skirts gathered up
Reed pen and brown ink
Verso: View on the banks of the IJ (?); a coast-line at right and various sailing boats by landing-stages or further out, large buildings amid trees along the coast
Pen and brown ink; framing lines in pen and brown ink
No watermark.
- Production date
- 1644-1677
- Dimensions
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Height: 192 millimetres
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Width: 310 millimetres (sight measurement)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Entry from Martin Royalton-Kisch, ‘Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school’, 2010, Anthonie van Borssom, cat. no.1:
The old attribution to van Borssom on the verso is convincing, although the recto figure study is an unusual motif for the artist. The locality depicted on the verso is uncertain.
LITERATURE :
London, 1915, p.62, no.1, repr. pl.XXXI (van Borssom); Gerson, 1935, p.58; Sumowski, II, 1979, no.329, the recto repr. and V, 1981, p.2426, under no.1090xx (the inscription a signature; compares verso with landscapes in Berlin, nos. 537, 538 and 5371, respectively Sumowski 347, 318 and 348; the recto figure compared with those in the second of these); Vermet, 1982, p.411 (compares figure in Fitzwilliam Museum drawing, PD3133 as Saenredam, and those in cat. nos.17 and 18 of church interiors).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1956, London, p.33, no.3.
- Condition
- Good; a few random vertical indentations on the recto; paper slightly discoloured.
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1836,0811.64
