
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004325Seated Female Nude
Provenance
Louis Corot (c. 1840–c. 1930), Nimes [stamp (Lugt 1718), recto, lower left, in black]; sold to Richard (an art dealer), Paris, in 1924 [Lugt 1718]. Alfred Strölin (1871–1954) and/or his son Alfred Strölin (1912–1974), Paris and Lausanne, by 1935 [Benesch 1935]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.
Exhibition history
Bern, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Bern, Rembrandt, Apr. 18–May 30, 1937, p. 45, cat. 198. Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Rembrandt, May 18–Aug. 5, 1956, pp. 171–172, cat. 237, pl. 64; also Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Aug. 8–Oct. 21, 1956. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, Mar. 15–Apr. 16, 1960, pp. 52–53, cat. 74, pl. 66; also Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Apr. 27–May 29, 1960. New York, Wildenstein and Company, Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 17–Nov. 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 32. Art Institute of Chicago, Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years, Oct. 25–Dec. 7, 1969, pp. 176 and 228–229 (ill.), cat. 137; also the Detroit Institute of Art, Feb. 24–Apr. 5, 1970; and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Dec. 22, 1969–Feb. 1, 1970. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, Jan. 30–Mar. 13, 1977; also The Denver Art Museum, Apr. 1–May 15, 1977, and the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., June 1–July 10, 1977, cat. 40, pp. 45–47. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Dutch Figure Drawings from the Seventeenth Century, Apr. 11–June 30, 1982, frontis; pp. 56–57 (fig. 2) and 142, cat. 84; also Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Dec. 19, 1981–Feb. 21, 1982. Cambridge, Mass., Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Rembrandt and His School: Drawings from the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, Dec. 2, 1989–Jan. 28, 1990 (no cat). Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop, Dec. 4, 1991–Jan. 19, 1992, cat. 38, pp. 126-127 (ill.); also Berlin, Altes Museum, Sept. 12–Oct. 27, 1991. London, Royal Academy of Arts, Rembrandt's Women, Sept. 22–Dec. 16, 2001, p. 46 (detail ill), p. 50, cat. 135 (ill.), p. 232. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, Oct. 26, 2003–Jan. 18, 2004, pp. 287–288 (ill.), 290–291, and 331, cat. 200; also the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 14–May 9, 2004. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference, Dec. 8, 2009–Feb. 28, 2010, p. 236 and 261, cat. 41.1. Amsterdam, The Rembrandt House Museum, Rembrandt's Naked Truth: Drawing Nude Models in the Golden Age, Feb. 12–May 16, 2016, pp. 41–42 (ill.), 146 (ill.), 148, 150, 152, 163, and 165–166, fig. 34, cat. 54. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 30, 124-25 (ill.), 128-29, 309-10, cat. 39, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Société de Reproduction des Dessins de Maîtres (Paris, 1913), vol. V, n.p. (ill.). Otto Benesch, Rembrandt Werk und Forschung (Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1935), p. 57. A. A. Sidorov, Risunki starykh masterov; tekhnika, teoriia, istoriia (Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo “Iskusstvo”, 1940), p. 242 (ill.). Hanna Prinz, Das Thema des Weiblichen Aktes in Meister-und Schülerzeichnungen aus Rembrandt's Spätzeit (Marburg, 1945), p. 100 and 126. Jakob Rosenberg, Rembrandt (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1948), vol. I, p. 153; vol. II, pl. 222. Harold Joachim, "Three Drawings by Rembrandt," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 48 (Feb. 1954), pp. 10–12 (ill.). Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d’Estampes (The Hague, 1956), p. 239, no. 1718; and online edition by the Fondation Custodia, consulted 08/09/2018, http://www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/8198/total/1 Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt (London: Phaidon, 1957), vol. V, p. 303, no. 1122, fig. 1418. "Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections," Arts Magazine (Mar. 1960), p. 28 (ill.). Roger-Marx, Claude, Rembrandt (Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1960), pp. 293–294, no. 121b (ill). Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time (New York: Shorewood Publishers, Inc, 1962), vol. II, no. 599 (ill.). Alfred Frankfurter, "'Il Bon Disegno' from Chicago," Art News, 62 (Nov. 1963), pp. 30 fig. 8, 57-58. Joseph-Emile Muller, Rembrandt (Paris, 1968), pp. 233–234 (ill.) and 271. Peter Schatborn, “Rembrandt’s Late Drawings of Female Nudes,” in Walter Strauss and Tracie Felker, eds., Drawings Defined (New York: Abaris Books, 1987), pp. 307-319, fig. 6. Peter Schatborn, “Rembrandts late tekeningen van vrouwelijke naaktfiguren.” De Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis, XXXIX (1987), no. 2, pp. 28-40 (ill., p. 32, fig. 6); discussed on pp. 33–34; pp. 38–39. Jeroen Giltaij, The Drawings by Rembrandt and His School in the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen (Rotterdam, 1988), p. 316, fig. a (ill.). Paul Huys Janssen, Werner Sumowski, The Hoogsteder Exhibition of Rembrandt’s Academy, exh. cat. (The Hague and Zwolle, Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder and Waanders Publishers, 1992), p. 31 (ill). James N. Wood, Teri J. Edelstein, and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 204 (ill.). Dirk Bijker, Arent de Gelder, 1645–1727: Rembrandts laatste leering, exh. cat. (Gent: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1998), pp. 117-18, fig. 12. Ruth Fine, Raymond Hernàndez-Duràn, and Mark Pascale, Contemporary American Realist Drawings, The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (New York, 1999), pp. 21-22, fig. 14. James N. Wood and Debra N. Mancoff, Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p. 118 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), p. 294 (ill.). Eric Jan Sluijter, “The Nude, The Artist and the Model: The Case of Rembrandt,” in The Nude and the Norm in the Early Modern Low Countries, eds. Karolien De Clippel, Katharina Van Cauteren, and Katlijne Van der Stichelen (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), pp. 26, 31 (fig. 23). Peter Schatborn and Leonore van Sloten, Old Drawings, New Names: Rembrandt and His Contemporaries, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: The Rembrandt House Museum; Varik: Uitgeverij de Weideblik, 2014), under cat. no. 26, pp. 86–88 (ill., p. 88). Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), pp. 117, 170 no. 68, 171 (ill.), 172, 173. Jos Bloemkolk, “Rembrandts dwarse kijk op het model,” het Parool (Feb. 11, 2016), p. 12 (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
- 1660/62
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with subtractive highlights (scraping) and touches of opaque white watercolor corrections, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
- Dimensions
- Primary/secondary supports: 21.2 × 17.5 cm (8 3/8 × 6 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Holland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1953.38
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