Portrait of a Lady

Item

Creator

Circle of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)

Title

Portrait of a Lady

Date

c. 1635

Description

Oil on panel
27 x 20 ¾ in. (c. 68.5 x 52.7 cm.)

Provenance

Private Collection, Austria. [A. Wengraf, by June 1932 sold to; Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940), Amsterdam]. Private Collection, Vienna. Francis C. Fabry (b.1888), San Francisco, owned jointly with other unidentified partners, consigned, and sold August 1943 to; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, sold August 1943 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, to August 1978; Unidentified thieves stole the painting from Arthur C. Herrington, Cohasset, MA home; Police recovered and returned the painting August 1979 to; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.

Exhibitions

1932 – Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rembrandt Tentoonstelling. Ter Plechtige herdenking van het 300-Jarig Bestaan der Universiteit van Amsterdam, 11 June – 4 September 1932, no. 7, owner: J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam.

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. 10, 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. 25, 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. 9, 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, p. 22, 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. 28, illus.

References

Isarlov, George. “L’Exposition Rembrandt à Amsterdam, 1932.” L’Amour de l’Art, Vol. 13, no. 9 (November 1932): 301, fig. 12. J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam.

Richardson, E.P., ‘The Young Rembrandt and His Times, in Indianapolis ….’ The Art Quarterly Vol. 21, no. 3 (Autumn 1958), pp. 286, illus., 288.

Jolna, Stacy. “Boston Police Recover $2.5 Million in Stolen Art.” The Washington Post (16 August 1979).

Maremont, Mark, Ross Kerber and William M. Carley. “Antiques Dealer May Have Information About Art Theft.” The Wall Street Journal (30 August 1997).

Amore, Anthony M. and Tom Mashberg. Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011, pp. 111-3, 219.

The Getty Research Institute Photo Study Collection, 76.P.60, Renaissance to Modern, ND644 Box 922: DUTCH, REMBRANDT (1606-1669): Paintings: Portraits unidentified female bust. Rembrandt Female Portrait. Photo (Douwes). Source: The Young Rembrandt and His Times, Indianapolis & San Diego 1958 No. 10.

The Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London: The Witt Library Photographic Collection. Fiche No. 12879: Netherlands School. Boxes 1850-1851: Rembrandt. Clipping from L’amour de l’art, Vol. 13, no. 9 (Nov. 1932), p. 301, Fig. 12.

Status

Under research