id: 122348
accession number: 1942.644
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A Young Man with a Chain, c. 1629 or 1632. Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), and Studio. Oil on wood; framed: 83.8 x 69.9 x 12.7 cm (33 x 27 1/2 x 5 in.); unframed: 57.8 x 43.8 cm (22 3/4 x 17 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.644
title: A Young Man with a Chain
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creation date: c. 1629 or 1632
creation date earliest: 1625
creation date latest: 1632
current location: 213 Dutch Painting
creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance
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culture: Netherlands
technique: oil on wood
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) - artist
* Studio - artist
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measurements: Framed: 83.8 x 69.9 x 12.7 cm (33 x 27 1/2 x 5 in.); Unframed: 57.8 x 43.8 cm (22 3/4 x 17 1/4 in.)
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inscription: Signed at right: "RHL van Rijn / 1632 [RHL in monogram]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
title: Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection
opening date: 1942-11-12T04:00:00
Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).
title: Dutch Painting, The Golden Age
opening date: 1955-01-05T05:00:00
Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).
title: Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century
opening date: 1973-07-10T04:00:00
Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).
title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00
Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
title: Rembrandt Rembrandt
opening date: 2002-11-03T00:00:00
Rembrandt Rembrandt. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (organizer) (November 3, 2002-January 13, 2003); Städelsches Kunstinstitut im Städtischen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main, Franfurt am Main, Germany (January 31-May 11, 2003).
title: Rembrandt Paintings in America
opening date: 2011-10-30T00:00:00
Rembrandt Paintings in America. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (organizer) (October 30, 2011-January 22, 2012); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 19-May 28, 2012); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (June 24-September 16, 2012).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Verein Ausstellung. Kaiser Friederich Museum, Berlin, Germany (1906).', 'opening_date': '1906-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Rembrandt Exhibition. Kroller Müller Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1913-1914).', 'opening_date': '1913-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Rembrandt. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (1930).', 'opening_date': '1930-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters; London, United Kingdom: Smith and Son, 1829.
page number: Reproduced: p. 92, no. 233, vol. 7
url:
Dutuit, Eugène. Tableaux et Dessins de Rembrandt: Catalogue Historique et Descriptif. Paris: Lévy, 1885.
page number: Mentioned: p. 20-21
url:
Bode, Wilhelm von, Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, and Auguste Marguillier. L' Oeuvre Complet de Rembrandt: Reproduction par l'héliogravure de tous les Tableaux du Maître, Accompagnée de leur Histoire, de leur Description et d'une étude Biographique et Critique. 8. Paris: Sedelmeyer, 1906.
page number: Reproduced and mentioned: vol. VIII, no. 7, p. 156, 160
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Hofstede de Groot, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. London, United Kingdom: Macmillan and Co, 1908.
page number: Reproduced: p. 275, vol. VI
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Rosenberg, Adolf and Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner. Rembrandt; des Meisters Gemälde in 643 Abbildungen, mit einer biographischen Einleitung. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1909.
page number: Reproduced: p. 522
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M. Knoedler & Co. Portrait of a Youth by Rembrant, 1606-1669. London: M. Knoedler & Co, n.d.
page number: Reproduced and mentioned: [1-10]
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Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold. Rembrandt: Wiedergefundene Gemälde (1910-1922). Stuttgart: Dt. Verl.-Anst, 1923.
page number: Mentioned: p. 26
url:
Detroit Institute of Arts, and Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner. The Thirteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, Paintings by Rembrandt: The Detroit Institute of Arts, May 2 to 31, 1930. Detroit, MI: The Institute, 1930.
page number: Reproduced: opp. no. 66 and on cover
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Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold. Rembrandt Paintings in America. New York: S.W. Frankel, 1931.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 16
url:
Bredius, Abraham, ed.,The Paintings of Rembrandt. Vienna. Austria: Phaidon-Verlag, 1936.
page number: Reproduced: p. 7, pl. 156
url:
Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition: June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936.
page number: Mentioned: p. 93-94, no. 232
url:
Milliken, William. “The Twentieth Annual Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art.” ARTnews 34, pt. 2 (June 13, 1936): 7-14.
page number: Mentioned: p. 12
url:
Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 232
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Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
page number: Reproduced: p. [17], Plate V, cat. no. 13; Mention: p. 22, cat. no. 13
url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n26
Berryman, F. S. "Important Bequest to Cleveland Museum." Magazine of Art 35 (November 1942): 264.
page number: Mentioned: p. 264
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Francis, Henry S. "Department of Paintings." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XXIX, no. 9 (November, 1942):132-136.
page number: Mentioned: p. 135
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“Cleveland Installs Last Gifts of John L. Severance.” Art Digest 17 (December 1, 1942): 8.
page number: Mentioned: p. 8
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Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.
page number: Reproduced; p. 24
url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 446
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n82
Jaffe, Michael. "The Figurative Arts of the West, c. 1400-1800." Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 77 (December 1963) p. 467.
page number: Reproduced: p. 467
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Gimpel, René. Journal d'un Collectionneur, Marchand de Tableaux. [Paris]: Calmann-Lévy, 1963.
page number: Mentioned: p. 236
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Bauch, Kurt. Rembrandt Gemälde. Berlin, Germany: W. de Gruyter, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 142
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 123
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n147
Erpel, Fritz. Die Selbstbildnisse Rembrandts. Wien: A. Langen, 1967.
page number: Reproduced: p. 202, no. 124
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Gerson, H., ed., Rembrandt Paintings. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Reynal & Co, 1968.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 101, Mentioned: p. 256-493
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Bredius, Abraham and H. Gerson. The Complete Edition of the Paintings [of] Rembrandt. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 560. no. 156
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Paolo Lecaldano, Paolo. L'opera pittorica completa di Rembrandt. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: no. 73
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 123
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n147
D' Argencourt, Louise, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 3. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
page number: Reproduced: no. 111
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 158
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n178
Morse, John D. Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1979.
page number: Listed: p. 232
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Bruyn, J., Ernst van de Wetering, C. J. van Nes, and Murray Pearson. A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings. The Hague, Netherlands: M. Nijhoff Publishers, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: a 23, Mentioned: p. 214-248
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Bruyn, J., Ernst van de Wetering, C. J. van Nes, and Murray Pearson. A corpus of Rembrandt paintings. The Hague, Netherlands: M. Nijhoff Publishers, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 82, fig. 3, vol. II
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 255; Mentioned: p. 254-256
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Schwartz, Gary. Rembrandt: zijn leven, zijn schilderijen : een nieuwe biografie met alle beschikbare schilderijen in klur afgebeeld. Maarssen: Uitgeverij Gary Schwartz, 1984.
page number: Reproduced: p. 196, pl. 209
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Guillaud, Jacqueline, and Maurice Guillaud. Rembrandt, The Human form and Spirit. Paris, France: Guillaud Editions, 1986.
page number: Reproduced: p. 270, fig. 319
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Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Washington, D.C.: Netherlands-American Amity Trust, 1986.
page number: Mentioned: p. 66, 345
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Van de Wetering, E. Corrigenda et Addenda to Volume I. In: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings. Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project Foundation, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht, 1986.
page number: Mentioned: p. 838
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Liedtke, Walter. "Reconstructing Rembrandt: Portraits from the early years in Amsterdam." Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 129 (May 1989): p. 331, 372.
page number: Reproduced: n. 64
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Tümpel, Christian, and Astrid Tümpel, Rembrandt: All Paintings in Colour. Antwerp, Belgium: Fonds Mercator, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 189, 427, cat. no. A 37
url:
Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 193
url:
Fleischer, Roland E., and Susan C. Scott. Rembrandt, Rubens, and the Art of Their Time: Recent Perspectives. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University, 1997.
page number: Reproduced: p. 6
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Giltaij, Jeroen and Shinji Hata. Rembrandt Rembrandt. Hakkō: Shiboruto zaidan, 2002.
page number: Reproduced: p. 59, Mentioned: p. 58-59
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Scallen, Catherine B., Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2004.
page number: Reproduced: p. 260, fig. 61
url:
Bleker, E. J., and A. A. H. Bleker-Poot. Rembrandt en de Blekerfamilie. Lochem, Netherlands: Silverborgh B.V., 2005.
page number: Reproduced: p. 203, Vol. 2
url:
S.A.C. Dudok Van Heel, "Rembrandt als Portretschilder bij Hendrick Uylenburgh, 1631-1635, met opdrachten in Den Haag, Leiden en Rotterdam." Amstelodamum 107-2 (April-June 2020)
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url:
Giltaij, Jeroen. Het grote Rembrandt boek: alle 684 schilderijen. Zwolle : WBOOKS, 2022.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 127, no. 176
url:
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