id: 143195 accession number: 1967.16 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.16 updated: 2025-10-29 11:06:23.768000 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 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 in America opening date: 2011-10-30T00:00:00 Rembrandt 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 * {'description': 'Harrach Gallery, Vienna from before 1904 to 1939.', 'opening_date': '1904-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Rembrandt und Seine Zeit, Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, 1949: no. 141.', 'opening_date': '1949-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Thirty-one paintings of the 15th-18th centuries from a Private Collection, Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, 1952: no. 22, (repr.)', 'opening_date': '1952-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Rembrandt Tentoonstellung, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, May-August 1956, Rotterdam, Boymans Museum, August-October 1956, cat. no. 89, repr. p. 182 (as a "Praying Apostle")', 'opening_date': '1956-05-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Munich, Alte Pinakothek (on loan, 1963)', 'opening_date': '1963-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Year in Review for 1967, no. 63, The Cleveland Museum of Art.', 'opening_date': '1967-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years, Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 25- Dec. 7, 1969, no 19.', 'opening_date': '1969-10-25T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Dutch Art and Life in the Seveneteenth Century, The Cleveland Museum of Art, July 10- September 2, 1973. (no catalogue)', 'opening_date': '1973-07-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Gainesville, FL: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 10/97 - 4/19/98 Re-presenting the Baroque.(no catalogue)', 'opening_date': '1998-04-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': '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"', 'opening_date': '2011-10-30T00:00:00'} --- 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: --- 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