id: 143195 accession number: 1967.16 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.16 updated: 2023-03-22 14:08:02.837000 An Elderly Man in Prayer, 1660s or later. Follower of Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). Oil on canvas; framed: 119.4 x 106.7 x 15.9 cm (47 x 42 x 6 1/4 in.); unframed: 87.3 x 72 cm (34 3/8 x 28 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1967.16 title: An Elderly Man in Prayer title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1660s or later creation date earliest: 1660 creation date latest: 1700 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Netherlands, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 119.4 x 106.7 x 15.9 cm (47 x 42 x 6 1/4 in.); Unframed: 87.3 x 72 cm (34 3/8 x 28 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed and dated at middle-right: "Rembrand[t]/ f.166[1]" (Last letter of name and last digit of date are no longer visible). translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). 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: Re-presenting the Baroque opening date: 1997-10-01T00:00:00 Re-presenting the Baroque. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (organizer) (October 1, 1997-April 1, 1998). title: Study purposes for Rembrandt exhibition in May 2002 opening date: 2000-03-16T00:00:00 Study purposes for Rembrandt exhibition in May 2002. National Gallery of Art (organizer). title: Study purposes/The Apostle Paul opening date: 2000-03-17T00:00:00 Study purposes/The Apostle Paul. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (March 17, 2000-March 17, 2001). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Harrach Gallery, Vienna from before 1904 to 1939.
Rembrandt und Seine Zeit, Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, 1949: no. 141.
Thirty-one paintings of the 15th-18th centuries from a Private Collection, Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, 1952: no. 22, (repr.)
Rembrandt Tentoonstellung, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, May-August 1956, Rotterdam, Boymans Museum, August-October 1956, cat. no. 89, repr. p. 182 (as a "Praying Apostle")
Munich, Alte Pinakothek (on loan, 1963)
The Year in Review for 1967, no. 63, The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years, Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 25- Dec. 7, 1969, no 19.
Dutch Art and Life in the Seveneteenth Century, The Cleveland Museum of Art, July 10- September 2, 1973. (no catalogue)
Gainesville, FL: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 10/97 - 4/19/98 Re-presenting the Baroque.(no catalogue)
North Carolina Museum of Art (10/30/2011 - 1/22/2012), The Cleveland Museum of Art (2/19/2012 - 5/28/2012), and Minneapolis Institute of Arts (6/24/2012 - 9/16/2012): "Rembrandt Paintings in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship" --- PROVENANCE Counts von Harrach, Schloss Rohrau and Vienna, Austira (inventories of 1889 and 1897, no. 218) date: including 1889-1897 footnotes: citations: Walter Bareiss (1920-2007), Zurich, Switzerland date: footnotes: citations: Charlotte Barreiss, Zurich, Switzerland date: by 1956 footnotes: citations: (Sale: Sotheby's, London, June 24, 1964, lot 5) date: June 24, 1964 footnotes: citations: (Pinakos, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: -1967 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1967- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Toward the end of his life, Rembrandt explored religious themes from an intimate perspective, producing a number of works for a possible Apostle series. The personal religiosity of An Elderly Man in Prayer, formerly attributed to Rembrandt, bears resemblance to such late works. Seated with eyes nearly closed and hands clasped in prayer over a large book, the figure appears still and introspective. While the dramatic lighting and dark color palette are reminiscent of Rembrandt's late works, this painting, formerly attributed to the artist, has since been assigned to a follower or a later eighteenth-century imitator of Rembrandt's style for reasons associated with the broad, flat brushwork of the garment, the poor handling of shadow on the hands, and the uniform treatment of the hair. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “Rembrandt: Old Man Praying.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 10 (December 1967): 295–301. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 295-301 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152182 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. 124 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n148 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. 159 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n179 Morse, John D. Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists. New York: Abbeville Press, 1979. page number: Mentioned: P. 232 url: Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. “The Weeping Heraclitus by Hendrick Terbrugghen in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Burlington Magazine 121, no. 914 (May 1979): 279–87. page number: Mentioned: P. 287 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/879582 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. 260; Mentioned: p. 261-262 url: Borowitz, Helen O. “The Rembrandt and Monet of Marcel Proust.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 2 (February 1983): 73–95. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 74-75, fig. 2 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159803 Guillaud, Jacqueline, and Maurice Guillaud. Rembrandt, the human form and spirit / [translators, Suzanne Boorsch and others]. Paris: Guillaud Editions, 1986. page number: Reproduced: P. 533, no. 621 url: Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Washington, D.C.: Netherlands-American Amity Trust, 1986. page number: Mentioned: P. 66 url: Wheelock, Arthur K., Peter C. Sutton, Volker Manuth, and Anne T. Woollett. Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits. Washington [D.C.]: National Gallery of Art in association with the University of Chicago Press, 2005. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 22, fig. 9 url: Giltaij, Jeroen, and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Het grote Rembrandt boek: alle 684 schilderijen. Zwolle : WBOOKS, 2022. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 477, no. 659 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.16/1967.16_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.16/1967.16_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.16/1967.16_full.tif