
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002221Kostverloren Castle in Decay
Provenance
King Friedrich August II of Saxony (1797–1854), Dresden [stamp (Lugt 971), recto, lower right, in black]; and by descent, to at least 1925 [Friese, Lilienfeld, and Wichmann 1925]. Willem J. R. Dreesmann (1885–1954), Amsterdam; sold, F. Muller & Co., Mar. 22–25, 1960, lot 26, to Richard Zinser, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.
Exhibition history
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Rembrandt, May 18–Aug. 5, 1956, p. 130, cat. 173; also, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Aug. 8–Oct. 21, 1956. New York, Wildenstein and Company, Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 17–Nov. 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 30, pl. 13a. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rembrandt 1669/1969, Sept. 13–Nov. 30, 1969, p. 245, cat. 127 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958–1983, July 24–Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 80–81, cat. 31 (ill.); also Saint Louis Art Museum, Mar. 25–May 4, 1986. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, Oct. 26, 2003–Jan. 18, 2004, pp. 279–80 (ill. p.. 279) and 330, cat. no. 193; also the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 14–May 9, 2004. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 258, 260 (Ill.), 308, 334,(ill.), cat. 105, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Emile Michel, Rembrandt, sa Vie, son Oeuvre, et son Temps (Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1893), p. 579. C. Hofstede de Groot, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts (Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn, 1906), no. 320, p. 77-78. F. Lippmann and C. Hofstede de Groot, Original Drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn: reproduced in the colours of the originals by Emrik & Binger at Haarlem (The Hague, 1911), series IV, part I, no. 23 (ill.). Max Eisler, Rembrandt als Landschafter (Munich: F. Bruckmann A.-G., 1918), p. 8, pl. 44; pp. 86–88. Frits Lugt, Mit Rembrandt in Amsterdam (Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1920), pp. 107–12, fig. 66. Hermann Friese, K. Lilienfeld, and Heinrich Wichmann, Rembrandts Handzeichnungen (Dresden: Hermann Freise, 1925), vol. III, p. 22, no. 128. Otto Benesch, Rembrandt Werk und Forschung (Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1935), p. 47. Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt (London: Phaidon, 1957), vol. VI, no. 1270 (ill.). Terence Mullaly, “£17,485 is Paid for Interior by De Hooch,” Daily Telegraph and Morning Post (Mar. 23, 1960), p. 15 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1960–1961), pp. 11 and 19 (ill.). The Art Quarterly (Autumn 1961), pp. 306 (ill.) and 312. Seymour Slive, Drawings by Rembrandt, II (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1965), pl. 466. I. H. van Eeghen, Rembrandt aan de Amstel (Amsterdam: Genootschap Amstelodamum, 1969), n.p. (fig. VI). Boudewijn Bakker, Mària van Berge-Gerbaud, Erik Schmitz, and Jan Peeters, Landscapes of Rembrandt: His Favorite Walks, exh. cat. Gemeentearchief Amsterdam and Institut Néerlandais, Paris (Bussum: Thoth Publishers, 1998), p. 289, ill. p 93 (color) and p. 288. [did we lend to this show?] Stijn Alsteens, Mària van Berge-Gerbaud, Marie-Christine Boucher, Hans Buis, Quentin Buvelot, José de Los Llanos, and Sophie-Charlotte Renouard de Bussiere, Regards sur l’art hollandais du XVIIe siècle, exh. cat., Institut Néerlandais (Paris: Fondation Custodia, 2004), under no. 75, note, 4, p. 356. Susan Donahue Kurestsky, et. al., Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, exh. Cat. (Poughkeepsie, New York: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2005), p. 159 (ill.). Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 117, 168 no. 67, 169 (ill.)
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn / Dutch, 1606-1669
- Date
- c. 1652
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with touches of opaque white watercolor, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 10.9 × 17.5 cm (4 5/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Holland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1961.49
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