Sheet of Studies (with a woman lying ill in bed)
- Date
- c.1639–42
- Material
- Etching
- made in
- Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- plate: (irregular) 5 7/16 x 5 15/16 in. (13.8 x 15.1 cm)
sheet: 5 1/2 x 6 1/8 in. (14 x 15.5 cm) - Credit Line
- Funds given by Mr. and Mrs. Lester A. Crancer Jr., the Julian and Hope Edison Print Fund, Phoebe and Mark Weil, and The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 36:1997
NOTES
In this etching, which looks like a page from an artist's sketchbook, Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn joined images of his wife Saskia in bed with renderings of other models. The large number of Rembrandt's sketches and drawings that show Saskia reclining, as depicted here, fueled a romantic notion that she was ill for an extended period before her death at the age of 29, but there are no documents supporting this theory.
Provenance
- 1908
Marsden Jasael Perry (1850-1935), Providence, RI, USA [1]
1908/05/18-23
In auction of Perry collection, H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, Germany, May 18-23, 1908, lot. no. 1384 [2]
- 1995
Joseph R. Ritman (b. 1941), Amsterdam, The Netherlands [3]
1995 - 1997
Artemis Fine Arts S.A., London, England, and Sotheby's (Nancy Bialler), New York, NY, USA
1997 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Artemis Fine Arts S.A. and Sotheby's [4]
Notes:
[1] Perry's collector's mark [Lugt 1880] appears on the verso of the print.
[2] See the auction catalogue "Katalog der umfangreichen und Wertvollen Sammlungen der Herren Marsden J. Perry in Providence, R.I. (Amerika) und Fritz Rumpf in Potsdam enthaltend die Werke von Dürer und Rembrandt," H.G. Gutekunst's Kunst-Auktion, Stuttgart, Germany, May 18, 1908, lot no. 1384. Result unknown.
[3] See the catalogue "A Collection of Etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606 - 1669) formed by Joseph R. Ritman," Artemis Fine Arts S.A. and Sotheby's, 1995, cat. no. 122.
[4] Invoice from Sotheby's dated July 23, 1997 [SLAM document files]. Though it seems that Artemis Fine Arts S.A. and Sotheby's jointly owned the print [see [3]], the invoice for the print came from Sotheby's. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 4, 1997.
Marsden Jasael Perry (1850-1935), Providence, RI, USA [1]
1908/05/18-23
In auction of Perry collection, H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, Germany, May 18-23, 1908, lot. no. 1384 [2]
- 1995
Joseph R. Ritman (b. 1941), Amsterdam, The Netherlands [3]
1995 - 1997
Artemis Fine Arts S.A., London, England, and Sotheby's (Nancy Bialler), New York, NY, USA
1997 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Artemis Fine Arts S.A. and Sotheby's [4]
Notes:
[1] Perry's collector's mark [Lugt 1880] appears on the verso of the print.
[2] See the auction catalogue "Katalog der umfangreichen und Wertvollen Sammlungen der Herren Marsden J. Perry in Providence, R.I. (Amerika) und Fritz Rumpf in Potsdam enthaltend die Werke von Dürer und Rembrandt," H.G. Gutekunst's Kunst-Auktion, Stuttgart, Germany, May 18, 1908, lot no. 1384. Result unknown.
[3] See the catalogue "A Collection of Etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606 - 1669) formed by Joseph R. Ritman," Artemis Fine Arts S.A. and Sotheby's, 1995, cat. no. 122.
[4] Invoice from Sotheby's dated July 23, 1997 [SLAM document files]. Though it seems that Artemis Fine Arts S.A. and Sotheby's jointly owned the print [see [3]], the invoice for the print came from Sotheby's. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 4, 1997.
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