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Creator
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Circle of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)
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Title
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An Old Man Reading a Book / The Artist’s Father
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Description
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Oil on panel
6 ¼ x 4 ¾ in. (16 x 12 cm.)
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Provenance
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Possibly Hendrik Trip, Amsterdam (sale, Amsterdam, 11 May 1740, lot 12, as Rembrandt). Possibly Charles-Alexandre de Calonne (1734-1802), Paris, (sale, London, Messrs. Skinner and Dyke, 28 March 1795, possibly lot 20 or 25). Matthew Anderson, Esq. (d. ca. 1892), Jesmond Cottage, near Newcastle, Durham. [Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), Vienna and New York, by June 1944, sold to]; [Newhouse Galleries, New York and Frederick Mont (Mondschein), sold July 1944 to]; Robert W. Lyons (d. 3 February 1949), Indianapolis, IN, and Washington, DC (sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 4 January 1945, lot 24, as Rembrandt), sold to; Stanley Pierson, possibly on behalf of Robert W. Lyons, returned and possibly on consignment, April to June 1947 to; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, sold June 1947 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.
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Auction Catalogues
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Possibly 1740 – Amsterdam, Catalogus van Schilderyen, Van den Ed. Heer HENDRIK TRIP, Bewinthebber van de Oost-Compagnie, 11 May 1740, lot 12 Een Lezend Mannetje, door Rembrandt. 6-0.
Possibly 1795 – London, Skinner & Dyke, A Catalogue of all that Noble & Superlatively Capital Assemblage of Valuable Pictures, Drawings, Miniatures, and Prints, The Property of the Right Hon. Charles Alexander De Calonne, Late Prime Minister of France; Selected with Equal Taste, Judgement, and Liberality, During his Residence in France, and his Travels through Italy, Germany, Flanders, and Holland, and while in England…which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Skinner and Dyke, On Monday the 23rd of March, 1795, and FIVE following Days, possibly lot 20, sold on 26 March 1795, £7-17-6 [transaction unknown], or possibly lot 25, sold on 28 March 1795 for £47-5 to Michael Bryan.
Possibly 1795 – Michael Bryan, London, A Catalogue of the Superlatively Capital Assemblage of Valuable Pictures, formed from the sales of the several celebrated collections of M. de Calonne, Baron Nagel, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, with other capital pictures of the first class …. Sold by Private Contract at Mr. Bryan’s Gallery, in Savile Row, on Monday the 27th day of April 1795, and following days, lot 111, on 27 April, bought in?
1945 – Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Notable Paintings Including Old Masters, XIX Century Landscapes, American Historical Portraits. Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Lyons, Washington DC, 4 January 1945, lot 24, as Rembrandt ($11,500 to Stanley Pierson).
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Exhibitions
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1952 – Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, European Masters in Indiana Homes, 12 October – 9 November 1952, no. 15 as The Artist’s Father.
1958 – Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum and San Diego, CA, The Fine Arts Gallery, The Young Rembrandt and His Times, 14 February – 18 May 1958, no. 3, illus. [Catalogue by Seymour Slive and David G. Carter].
1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, no. 26, illus.
1965 – Indianapolis, Leah Ransburg Fine Arts Center, Indiana Central College, Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington, 2 – 10 October 1965, no. 10, illus.
1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, pp. 32-33, illus.
1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, no. 29, illus.
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References
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Possibly Hoet, Gerard. Catalogus of Naamlyst Van Schilderyen Met Derzelver Pryzen, Zedert een langen reeks van Jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere Plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt, Benevens een Verzameling van Lysten van Verscheyden nog in wezen zynde Cabinetten / Uytgegeven Door Gerard Hoet. 'sGravenhage: P. G. Van Baalen, 1752, p.5, n.12.
Possibly Buchanan, William. Memoirs of Painting, with a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution. Vol. 1. London: R. Ackermann, 1824, pp. 217-224, 228-9 (lot 20 Rembrandt, Small Head of an Old Man 7 1/2), 241, 243 (lot 25 Rembrandt, An Old Man’s Portrait…. 45).
Possibly Hofstede de Groot, C. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Based on the Works of John Smith, Vol. 6 [Rembrandt, Nicolaes Maes], London: MacMillian and Co., Limited, 1916, p.154, n.241c Trip.
Possibly Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters…. Vol. 7. London: Smith and Son, 1836, p.101, no. 271.
"$15,000 For Hals Painting: Small Panel Yields Top Price at Auction of R.W. Lyons Art.” The New York Times (5 January 1945): 12.
Richardson, E.P. “The Young Rembrandt and His Times, in Indianapolis” The Art Quarterly Vol. 21, no. 3 (Autumn 1958): pp. 288, 289, fig. 2.
Kay, Jane H. “Portrait of Rembrandt’s Father.” The Christian Science Monitor (6 July 1965), p. 8, illus.
The Getty Research Institute Photo Study Collection, 76.P.60, Renaissance to Modern, ND644 Box 908: DUTCH REMBRANDT (1606-1669): Paintings: Portraits Artist’s Family Father. Photo Coll. Douwes. Photo from Young Rembrandt and His Times.
The Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London: The Witt Library Photographic Collection. Fiche No. 12,860: Netherlands School, Box No. 1835-1836: Rembrandt: Portraits: Rembrandt’s Father. Photo from Young Rembrandt and His Times. Fiche No. 12,860: Netherlands School, Box No. 1835-1836: Rembrandt: Portraits: Rembrandt’s Father. Photo and cataloguing from Lyons Sale, 4 January 1945.
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Status
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Under research
