About the Artwork
Bust of a Bearded Old Man
mid-1630s
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
1606-1669
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 22 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (57.2 × 42.5 cm) Framed: 28 1/2 × 22 3/4 × 3 1/2 inches (72.4 × 57.8 × 8.9 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mrs. Ellen Stevens Whithall, Mrs. Annie Stevens Woodruff and William P. Stevens in memory of Henry G. Stevens
42.151
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Markings
Signed, lower right: R H L [the letters form a monogram]
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Provenance
before 1920, Israel Coryn (Goslar, Germany)
ca. 1920-1922, Egon Müller (Hamburg, Germany)
1922, Theodor Larsen (Tutzing, Germany)
by 1922, Henry G. Stevens [1879–1934] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
by descent to siblings, William G. Stevens, Mrs. Ellen Stevens Whitall and Mrs. Annie Stevens Woodruff
1942-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Muller, Egon. "Ein neuentdecktes Jugendwerk von Rembrandt." Der Kunstwanderer: halbmonatschrift für Kunstmarkt und Sammelwesen (1920): pp. 141–142 (ill.).
Pauli, G. "Ein Neuer Rembrandt." Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 32, no. 1 (January 1921): 22, p. 22 (ill.).
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt Wiedergefundene Gemälde. Stuttgart and Berlin, 1921, p. xvi, no. 16, fig. 15 (ill.).
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt Wiedergefundene Gemälde. Berlin and Leipzig, 1923, p. xx, no. 17, fig. 15 (ill.).
The Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and English Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1926, unpaginated, cat. 29.
"Detroit Museum Opens Rembrandt Loan Exhibition." The Art News 28, no. 30, (April 26, 1930): 3, 13, p. 13.
The Thirteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Paintings by Rembrandt. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, unpaginated, cat. 5 (ill.).
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt Paintings in America. New York, 1931, no. 9, fig. 9 (ill.).
Bauch, Kurt. Die Kunst des jungen Rembrandt. Heidelberg, 1933, pp. 143, 145, fig. 164 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P. "Head of a Bearded Old Man by Rembrandt." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 22 (May 1943): 74–75, front cover, pp. 74–75 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P., ed. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, pp. 108; 179, no. 688 (ill.).
Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, p. 124 (ill.).
Rembrandt. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Toronto. Toronto, 1951, unpaginated, cat. 1.
Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Check List of the Paintings Acquired Before June, 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 90.
Bauch, Kurt. Rembrandt Gemälde. Berlin, 1966, p. 9, no. 125 (ill.).
Arpino, Giovanni, Paolo Lecaldano. L'Opera pittorica completa di Rembrandt. Milan, 1969, p. 128 (ill.). [listed under "Altre opera rembrandtiane già considerate dalla critica o presenti in pubbliche raccolte"]
Thiel, P.J.J. van. "Hollandse lijsten van balein: Bekends en onbekends over Jan Osborn en zijn octrooi." In Miscellanea I. Q. van Regteren Altena. Amsterdam, 1969, p. 110, fig. 5 (ill.).
Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 186–187, fig. 76 (ill.).
Schnackenburg, Bernhard. Jan Lievens: Friend and Rival of the Young Rembrandt. Trans. Kristin Lohse Belkin. Petersberg, 2016, pp. 462-463 no. D14 (ill.).
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workshop of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Bust of a Bearded Old Man, mid-1630s, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Ellen Stevens Whithall, Mrs. Annie Stevens Woodruff and William P. Stevens in memory of Henry G. Stevens, 42.151.
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