Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn
Title: Portrait of a man with ruffled collar
oil on panel 23 3/4 x 20 1/4in 60.4 x 51.5cm) Footnotes PROVENANCE: Sir Simon Clarke, Bart., London (as part of a pair); Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Chaltenham, 1854-1859; Sale, Christie's, London, 26 July, 1859, lot 852, to Eckford; Sir Robert Napier, London, 1868-1877 Sale, Christie's, London, April 11, 1877; C. Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1898, nos. 123 and 124; Morris K. and Maria DeWitt Jesup, New York, 1909-1915: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 17 June, 1982, lot 100 (as part of a pair; whereabouts of female portrait presently unknown). EXHIBITED: Leeds, 1868, nos. 591 and 602 (as by Rembrandt, lent by Sir Robert Napier); New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909, vol. I, nos. 82 and 83 (as by Rembrandt); LITERATURE: G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 1854, vol. III, p. 126 (as by Rembrandt, in the Northwick collection); W. Bode and C. Hofstede de Groot, Rembrandt, 1897, vol. II, pp. 7, 60, 62, nos. 90-91, illus. (as by Rembrandt); W.R. Valentiner, Rembrandt (Klassiker der Kunst), 1908, p. 552, illus. (as by Rembrandt); W.R. Valentiner, "Die Ausstellung holländischer Gemälde in New York," Monathshefte für Kunstwissenschaft, 1910, vol. III, pp. 7-8, illus. (as by Rembrandt); Bryson Burroughs, "European Paintings in the Jesup Collection," Metropolitan Museum Bulletin, 1915, vol. X, p. 88 (as school of Rembrandt); C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. VI, 1916, pp. 360 and 400, nos. 767 and 872 (as by Rembrandt); Bryson Burroughs, Catalogue of Paintings (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 1916, pp. 238-239 (as by Rembrandt); J.L. Allen and Elizabeth E. Gardner, A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1954, p. 82 Katherine Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, vol. I, p. 151, vol. III, p. 422, illus.