The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  Capo de Lista family collection (?) (Padua, Italy)

  Barbini-Breganze coll., Venice (1847) cat. no. 204;

  Städelsches Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (inv. no. 927), 1847 to 1882;

  sold, Paris, May 5, 1882, no. 30;

  Charles Sedelmeyer (Paris, France);

  Karl von der Heydt (Berlin, Germany) (1906);

  A.B. Antik (Stockholm, Sweden)

  consigned to Knoedler & Co. (New York, and London, England, 1919);

  sold to Elisabeth Severance Prentiss (Cleveland, Ohio), in exchange for John Hoppner, Portrait of Mrs. Jermingham and Herman Kricheldorf, Still-Life with Lobster, 1919, upon her death, held in trust by the estate

  Estate of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
• Citations
  Parthey, G. Deutscher Bildersaal: Verzeichniss der in Deutschland vorhandenen Oelbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen, in alphabetischer Folge zusammengestellt. Berlin, Germany: Nicolaische, 1863. Reproduced: p. 339, vol. II

  De Ris, L. Clément. "Le Musée de Frankfort-sur-le-Mein." Revue Universelle des Arts XIX (1864): 344-353. Mentioned: p. 347

  Vosmaer, Carel. Rembrandt, Sa Vie et Ses Oeuvres. La Haye: M. Nijhoff, 1877. Mentioned: p. 508

  Bode, Wilhelm von. Studien zur Geschichte der Holländischen Malerei. Braunschweig: F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1883. Reproduced: p. 405

  Dutuit, Eugène. L'œuvre Complet de Rembrandt. Paris: A. Lévy, 1883. Mentioned: p. 29

  Bode, Wilhelm von. The Complete Work of Rembrandt, History, Description and Heliographic Reproduction of All the Master's Pictures, with a Study of His Life and His Art. Paris: C. Sedelmeyer, 1897.

  Bode, Wilhelm von, C. Hofstede de Groot, and Florence Simmonds. The Complete Work of Rembrandt, History, Description and Heliographic Reproduction of All the Master's Pictures, with a Study of His Life and His Art. Paris: C. Sedelmeyer, 1897. Reproduced: Vol. II, no. 117; mentioned: Vol. II, p. 11

  Sedelmeyer, Charles. Illustrated Catalogue of 300 Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English Schools, Paris, France: [Printed for Ch. Sedelmeyer by Lahure], 1898. Reproduced: p. 142, no. 125

  Wurzbach, Alfred von. Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon; auf Grund archivalischer Forschungen bearbeitet. Wien, Austria: Halm und Goldmann, 1906. Reproduced: p. 413, vol. II

  Hofstede de Groot, C. P. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. London, United Kingdom: Macmillan and Co, 1908. Reproduced: p. 387, no. 846, vol. VI

  Rosenberg, Adolf, and Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner. Rembrandt; des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1909. Reproduced: no. 207

  Voss, Hermann. "Ausstellung von bildnissen des XV bis XVIII, Jahrhunderts aus dem Privatbesitz der Mitglieder des Kaiser Friedrich-Museum-Vereines zu Berlin." Der Cicerone: Halbmonatsschrift für die Interessen des Kunstforschers und Sammlers I (1909): 287-290. Mentioned: p. 287

  Rosenberg, Adolf. The Work of Rembrandt Reproduced in Over Five Hundred Illustrations. New York, NY: Brentano's, 1913. Reproduced: p. 207

  Bangel, Rud. "Die Kunst suf dem Internationalen Markt II" Der Cicerone: Halbmonatsschrift für die Interessen des Kunstforschers und Sammlers VI (1914): 44-51. Mentioned: p. 46

  Errera, Isabelle. Répertoire des peintures datées, par Isabella Errera. Bruxelles, Belgium: G. van Oest & cie, 1920. Reproduced: p. 210, vol. 1

  Meldrum, David Storrar. Rembrandt's Paintings, With an Essay on His Life and Work. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1923. Reproduced: p. 190, pl. CLX

  Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold. Rembrandt Paintings in America. New York, NY: S.W. Frankel, 1931. Reproduced: pl. 56

  Bredius, Abraham. The Paintings of Rembrandt. Vienna, Austria: Phaidon-Verlag, 1936. Reproduced: p. 14, no. 350

  Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936. Mentioned: p. 91-92, no. 229; Reproduced: pl. XLIX

  Milliken, William M. "Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art." ARTnews 34 (June 13, 1936): 6-14. Mentioned: p. 12

  Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Reproduced: p. [18], Plate VI, cat. no. 12; Mentioned: p. 27, cat. no. 12 archive.org

  Francis, Henry S. ""Paintings in the Prentiss Bequest." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XXXI, no. 6 (June 1944): 87-89. Mentioned: p. 88; Reproduced: p. 95

  Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. Reproduced: p. 22 archive.org

  Francis, Henry Sayles. Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. no. 1, 1945. Reproduced: p. 22

  Comstock, H. "Prentiss Collection." The Connoisseur 115 (March 1945): 43. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 43

  The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 448 archive.org

  Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. Reproduced: no. 16

  Gimpel, René. Journal d'un collectionneur, marchand de tableaux. [Paris]: Calmann-Lévy, 1963. Mentioned: p. 236

  Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. Mentioned: cat. no. 16

  Bauch, Kurt. Rembrandt Gemälde. Berlin, Germany: W. de Gruyter, 1966. Reproduced: no, 485, Listed: p. 25

  The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 123 archive.org

  Gerson, H., and Gary Schwartz. Rembrandt Paintings. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Reynal & Co, 1968. Mentioned: p. 294-295, and 495

  Bredius, Abraham and H. Gerson. The Complete Edition of the Paintings [of] Rembrandt. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon, 1969. Reproduced: p. 274

  L'opera pittorica completa di Rembrandt. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1969. Reproduced: p. 169

  The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 123 archive.org

  Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years: A Symposium, Rembrandt and His Followers. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, 1973. Mentioned: p. 34-35

  The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 158 archive.org

  Morse, John D. Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1979. Reproduced: p. 232

  Bruyn, J., Ernst van de Wetering, C. J. van Nes, and Murray Pearson. A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings. The Hague, Netherlands: M. Nijhoff Publishers, 1982. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 661-667

  D' Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Painting, Part Three. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 112

  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. Mentioned: p. 256-258; Reproduced: p. 257

  Levey, Santina M. Lace: A History. London, United Kingdom: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983. Reproduced: pl. 140

  Schwartz, Gary. Rembrandt: zijn leven, zijn schilderijen : een nieuwe biografie met alle beschikbare schilderijen in klur afgebeeld. Maarssen, Netherlands: Uitgeverij Gary Schwartz, 1984. Reproduced: p. 164

  Schwartz, Gary. Rembrandt: His Life, His Paintings, New York, N.Y: Viking, 1985. Reproduced: p. 165

  Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Washington, D.C.: Netherlands-American Amity Trust, 1986. Mentioned: p. 66

  Guillaud, Jacqueline, and Maurice Guillaud. Rembrandt, the Human Form and Spirit.. Paris, France: Guillaud Editions, 1986. Reproduced: p. 292, fig. 345

  Rembrandt: Portrait of a Man in a Broad-brimmed Hat, Portrait of a Woman = Renburanto : fūfu no shōzō. Chiba-ken Sakura-shi: Kawamura Kinen Bijutsukan, 1992. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 3, 6, 8, 9

  Renburanto: kare to shi to deshitachi ten. Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo Shinbun, 1992. Reproduced: p. 31, cat. 8

  Van Thiel, P. J. J. "De Rembrandt-tentoonstelling Van 1898." Bulletin Van Het Rijksmuseum 40, no. 1 (1992): 11-93. Reproduced: p. 78

  Cleveland Museum of Art, and Alan Chong. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: p. 193

  Tümpel, Christian, Astrid Tümpel, Ivan Gaskell, and Christian Tümpel. Rembrandt: All Paintings in Colour. Antwerp, Belgium: Fonds Mercator, 1993. Reproduced: p. 93

  20 Stories: Kawamura Kinen Bijutsukan gaidobukku. Chiba-ken Sakura-shi: Kawamura Kinen Bijutsukan, 1994. Reproduced: p. 3

  Giltaij,Jeroen and Shinji Hata. Rembrandt Rembrandt. Hakkō, Japan: Shiboruto zaidan, 2002. Mentioned: p. 92-93; Reproduced: p. 93

  Bleker, E. J.,and A. A. H. Bleker-Poot. Rembrandt en de Blekerfamilie. Lochem, Netherlands: Silverborgh B.V., 2005. Mentioned: p. 107, vol. 1

  Bleker, E. J.,and A. A. H. Bleker-Poot. Rembrandt en de Blekerfamilie. Lochem, Netherlands: Silverborgh B.V., 2005. Mentioned: p. 335, vol 2

  Kawamura Kinen Bijutsukan. Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art. Tokyo: DIC Corporation, 2008. Reproduced: vol. 1, p. 18, fig. 1

  Ribbens, Arjen. "De Kunstdetective Twijfelt Niet: 'Dit is Maria van Aelst,'" NRC Handelsblad (January 16, 2020). www.nrc.nl

  Giltaij, Jeroen, and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Het grote Rembrandt boek: alle 684 schilderijen. Zwolle : WBOOKS, 2022. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 246, no. 384
• Exhibition History
  Rembrandt Paintings in America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 19-May 28, 2012); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (June 24-September 16, 2012).

  Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29-July 8, 2007).

  Rembrandt Rembrandt. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (organizer) (November 3, 2002-January 13, 2003).

  Rembrandt: His Teachers and Pupils. Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura City, Japan (organizer) (June 13-August 2, 1992).

  Chiba, Japan, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 1992: cat. no. ?.

  Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

  Three Hundred Paintings by Old Masters. Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, France (1898).

  Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).

  Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).

  Man and His Years, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1954, p. 15, no. 81.

  Masterpiece Series, Akron Art Institute, April 14- May 17, 1953.

  Benefit Exhibition of Paintings by Rembrandt, Wildenstein & Co., 1950.

  Old Masters, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH March-April 1948).

  Haggin Memorial Galleries, Stockton, California, 1948.

  Exhibition of Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (November 1947- January 1948).

  The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

  Austellung von Weken Alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz der Mitglieder des K. Friderich Museums-- Vereins, Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, Germany (January 27-March 4, 1906).
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