A Woman at her Toilette

A Woman at her Toilette

RP-T-1930-49

Benesch 1164

• draughtsman: attributed to Willem Drost, Amsterdam
• draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn [rejected attribution]

c. 1650 - c. 1655

reed pen and brown ink, some areas deliberately rubbed with a finger or dry brush; traces of framing line in brown ink

height 109 mm x width 91 mm (upper corners cut diagonally)

Gift of Dr C. Hofstede de Groot, The Hague

gift 1930

Public domain

…; collection Henry Stephen Olivier (1795-1864), Potterne Manor House, near Devizes, Wiltshire (L. 1373);{According to an inscription on the drawing, Hofstede de Groot removed the stamp, which was no. 613 in Fagan 1883 and which was unidentified until 1956, when Lugt figured out it belonged to Olivier.} …; purchased from Paul Mathey (1844-1929), Paris, as Rembrandt, with five other drawings, through the mediation of the dealer P. Roblin, by Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague, 1903;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB.} by whom donated to the museum, 1906, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum, 1930

Benesch 1164

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