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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
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culture: Netherlands, 17th century
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 12, 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
* Exhibition of Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (November 1947- January 1948).
* Old Masters, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH March-April 1948).
* Haggin Memorial Galleries, Stockton, California, 1948.
* Benefit Exhibition of Paintings by Rembrandt, Wildenstein & Co., 1950.
* Masterpiece Series, Akron Art Institute, April 14- May 17, 1953.
* Man and His Years, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1954, p. 15, no. 81.
* Chiba, Japan, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 1992: cat. no. ?.
* Three Hundred Paintings by Old Masters. Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, France (1898).
* 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).
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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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fun fact:
This painting is probably a pendant to a portrait of a man that is now at the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art in Japan. Both were cut down from their original rectangular shape.
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wall description:
At the age of 25, Rembrandt moved from his hometown of Leiden to the bustling city of Amsterdam. Within a few years he had become one of the city’s most successful portrait painters, creating remarkably vivid likenesses that seemed to express the personality and soul of the sitter. Here, Rembrandt used smooth, fluid brushstrokes to recreate the soft texture of the woman’s skin. In contrast, thicker, more textured strokes draw attention to the lavish display of her lace collar and gold jewelry—details sure to please a wealthy client. The extraordinary demand at that time for a portrait by Rembrandt meant that in many cases (including, probably, this painting) he called upon assistants to help complete the work.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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Wurzbach, Alfred von. Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon; auf Grund archivalischer Forschungen bearbeitet. Wien, Austria: Halm und Goldmann, 1906.
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page number: Reproduced: p. 190, pl. CLX
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page number: Reproduced: pl. 56
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page number: Reproduced: p. 14, no. 350
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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
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page number: Mentioned: p. 88; Reproduced: p. 95
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page number: Reproduced: p. 22
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page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 448
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page number: Reproduced: no, 485, Listed: p. 25
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