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accession number: 1944.90
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Portrait of a Woman, 1635 or earlier. Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), and Studio. Oil on wood; framed: 97.8 x 83.8 x 6.4 cm (38 1/2 x 33 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 77.5 x 64.8 cm (30 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.90
title: Portrait of a Woman
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creation date: 1635 or earlier
creation date earliest: 1630
creation date latest: 1635
current location: 213 Dutch Painting
creditline: The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
copyright:
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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: 97.8 x 83.8 x 6.4 cm (38 1/2 x 33 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 77.5 x 64.8 cm (30 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.)
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inscription: Signed at right center: "Rembrandt. f. 1635."
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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: 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: Style, Truth and the Portrait
opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00
Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).
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: His Teachers and Pupils
opening date: 1992-06-13T04:00:00
Rembrandt: His Teachers and Pupils. Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura City, Japan (organizer) (June 13-August 2, 1992).
title: Rembrandt Rembrandt
opening date: 2002-11-03T00:00:00
Rembrandt Rembrandt. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (organizer) (November 3, 2002-January 13, 2003).
title: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2007-03-29T00:00:00
Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29-July 8, 2007).
title: Rembrandt Paintings in America
opening date: 2011-10-30T00:00:00
Rembrandt Paintings in America. 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': 'Exhibition of Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (November 1947- January 1948).', 'opening_date': '1947-11-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Old Masters, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH March-April 1948).', 'opening_date': '1948-03-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Haggin Memorial Galleries, Stockton, California, 1948.', 'opening_date': '1948-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Benefit Exhibition of Paintings by Rembrandt, Wildenstein & Co., 1950.', 'opening_date': '1950-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Masterpiece Series, Akron Art Institute, April 14- May 17, 1953.', 'opening_date': '1953-04-14T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Man and His Years, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1954, p. 15, no. 81.', 'opening_date': '1954-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Chiba, Japan, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 1992: cat. no. ?.', 'opening_date': '1992-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Three Hundred Paintings by Old Masters. Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, France (1898).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Austellung von Weken Alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz der Mitglieder des K. Friderich Museums-- Vereins, Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, Germany (January 27-March 4, 1906).', 'opening_date': '1906-01-27T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Capo de Lista family collection (?) (Padua, Italy)
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Barbini-Breganze coll., Venice (1847) cat. no. 204;
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Städelsches Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (inv. no. 927), 1847 to 1882;
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sold, Paris, May 5, 1882, no. 30;
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Charles Sedelmeyer (Paris, France);
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Karl von der Heydt (Berlin, Germany) (1906);
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A.B. Antik (Stockholm, Sweden)
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consigned to Knoedler & Co. (New York, and London, England, 1919);
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sold to Elisabeth Severance Prentiss (Cleveland, Ohio), in exchange for John Hoppner, Portrait of Mrs. Jermingham and Herman Kricheldorf, Still-Life with Lobster, 1919, upon her death, held in trust by the estate
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Estate of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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page number: Reproduced: p. 339, vol. II
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De Ris, L. Clément. "Le Musée de Frankfort-sur-le-Mein." Revue Universelle des Arts XIX (1864): 344-353.
page number: Mentioned: p. 347
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Vosmaer, Carel. Rembrandt, Sa Vie et Ses Oeuvres. La Haye: M. Nijhoff, 1877.
page number: Mentioned: p. 508
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page number: Reproduced: p. 405
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page number: Mentioned: p. 29
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Bode, Wilhelm von. The Complete Work of Rembrandt, History, Description and Heliographic Reproduction of All the Master's Pictures, with a Study of His Life and His Art. Paris: C. Sedelmeyer, 1897.
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Bode, Wilhelm von, C. Hofstede de Groot, and Florence Simmonds. The Complete Work of Rembrandt, History, Description and Heliographic Reproduction of All the Master's Pictures, with a Study of His Life and His Art. Paris: C. Sedelmeyer, 1897.
page number: Reproduced: Vol. II, no. 117; mentioned: Vol. II, p. 11
url:
Sedelmeyer, Charles. Illustrated Catalogue of 300 Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English Schools, Paris, France: [Printed for Ch. Sedelmeyer by Lahure], 1898.
page number: Reproduced: p. 142, no. 125
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Wurzbach, Alfred von. Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon; auf Grund archivalischer Forschungen bearbeitet. Wien, Austria: Halm und Goldmann, 1906.
page number: Reproduced: p. 413, vol. II
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Hofstede de Groot, C. P. A 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. 387, no. 846, vol. VI
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Rosenberg, Adolf, and Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner. Rembrandt; des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1909.
page number: Reproduced: no. 207
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Bangel, Rud. "Die Kunst suf dem Internationalen Markt II" Der Cicerone: Halbmonatsschrift für die Interessen des Kunstforschers und Sammlers VI (1914): 44-51.
page number: Mentioned: p. 46
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Errera, Isabelle. Répertoire des peintures datées, par Isabella Errera. Bruxelles, Belgium: G. van Oest & cie, 1920.
page number: Reproduced: p. 210, vol. 1
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Meldrum, David Storrar. Rembrandt's Paintings, With an Essay on His Life and Work. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1923.
page number: Reproduced: p. 190, pl. CLX
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Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold. Rembrandt Paintings in America. New York, NY: S.W. Frankel, 1931.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 56
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Bredius, Abraham. The Paintings of Rembrandt. Vienna, Austria: Phaidon-Verlag, 1936.
page number: Reproduced: p. 14, no. 350
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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: p. 91-92, no. 229; Reproduced: pl. XLIX
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Milliken, William M. "Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art." ARTnews 34 (June 13, 1936): 6-14.
page number: Mentioned: p. 12
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Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
page number: Reproduced: p. [18], Plate VI, cat. no. 12; Mentioned: p. 27, cat. no. 12
url: https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n31
Francis, Henry S. ""Paintings in the Prentiss Bequest." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XXXI, no. 6 (June 1944): 87-89.
page number: Mentioned: p. 88; Reproduced: p. 95
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Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.
page number: Reproduced: p. 22
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n30
Francis, Henry Sayles. Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. no. 1, 1945.
page number: Reproduced: p. 22
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Comstock, H. "Prentiss Collection." The Connoisseur 115 (March 1945): 43.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 43
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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. 448
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Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963.
page number: Reproduced: no. 16
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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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Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 16
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Bauch, Kurt. Rembrandt Gemälde. Berlin, Germany: W. de Gruyter, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: no, 485, Listed: p. 25
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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
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page number: Mentioned: p. 294-295, and 495
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page number: Reproduced: p. 274
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L'opera pittorica completa di Rembrandt. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1969.
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url:
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