Portrait of a Woman
1635 or earlier
Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
European Painting and Sculpture
Portrait of a Woman, 1635 or earlier. Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), and Studio. Oil on wood; framed: 97.8 x 83.8 x 6.4 cm (38 1/2 x 33 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 77.5 x 64.8 cm (30 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.90 This painting is probably a pendant to a portrait of a man that is now at the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art in Japan. Both were cut down from their original rectangular shape.
- Maker/Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- Framed: 97.8 x 83.8 x 6.4 cm (38 1/2 x 33 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 77.5 x 64.8 cm (30 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed at right center: "Rembrandt. f. 1635."
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1944.90
- Credit Line
- The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
- Exhibitions
- The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, Dutch Painting, The Golden Age, Style, Truth and the Portrait, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, Rembrandt: His Teachers and Pupils, Rembrandt Rembrandt, Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Rembrandt Paintings in America, Exhibition of Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (November 1947- January 1948)., Old Masters, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH March-April 1948)., Haggin Memorial Galleries, Stockton, California, 1948., Benefit Exhibition of Paintings by Rembrandt, Wildenstein & Co., 1950., Masterpiece Series, Akron Art Institute, April 14- May 17, 1953., Man and His Years, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1954, p. 15, no. 81., Chiba, Japan, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 1992: cat. no. ?., Three Hundred Paintings by Old Masters. Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, France (1898)., 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).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 213 Dutch Painting
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