- Museum number
- 1922,0410.3
- Description
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Landscape with Venus, Cupid and two Satyrs; Venus, nude, reclining on an ornate rug. Perhaps c.1655
Pen and brown ink with brown wash, touched with red chalk; ruled framing-lines in pen and brown ink.
Verso: blank (see Inscriptions).
Watermark: Strasbourg bend with large lily (similar to Hinterding variant B).
- Production date
- 1655 (perhaps circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 260 millimetres
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Width: 436 millimetres (chain lines horizontal, 26/29mm apart)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Entry from Martin Royalton-Kisch, ‘Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school’, 2010, Jan Andrea Lievens, cat. no.2:
See the comments to cat. no.1 (1836,0811.343). Once again, the figures are somewhat in the style of Van Dyck, with reminiscences of the Venetians, Titian and Giorgione (the Dresden 'Venus').
LITERATURE (always as by J.A. Lievens):
London, IV, 1931, p.141, no.Add 2, repr. pl.LXXII; Schneider, 1932/73, pp.281-3 (notes provenance given here; believed the draughtsmanship 'less free' than the elder Lievens's); Rotterdam, 1988, p.218, n.5; Exh. Amsterdam, 1988-9, under no.63; Royalton-Kisch, 1998, pp.621-2.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1992, BM, Drawings by Rembrandt and his Circle, not in catalogue
- Condition
- Generally good, though worn near left edge, where apparently damaged by damp; some discolouration near right edge; a few old spots and stains.
- Acquisition date
- 1922
- Acquisition notes
- Sale, Amsterdam, 14 Sep., 1761, lot 721 as from the Cabinet van Hulst (as by Jan Lievens); M. Elgersma et al. sale, Amsterdam, 24 March, 1766, kunstboek D. no.419, bt Oets, fl.0.12; Frankfurt, Prestel, 16 Nov., 1920, Nachtrag no.2374, repr. (as of ‘Jupiter and Antiope’), bought Jacques Rosenthal, 4,200 Marks; purchased from N. Beets, 1922.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1922,0410.3