THE DRAWINGS OF REMBRANDT:
a revision of Otto Benesch's catalogue raisonné
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Benesch 325-426 illustrations
Benesch 325
School of Rembrandt [Gerbrand van den Eeckhout??], reworked by Rembrandt?
A Woman Seated, to right, wearing an exotic costume, c.1638-39
D Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
Benesch 326
Rembrandt??
A Bearded Man, half-length, in exotic costume, c.1638
D Hannover, Sprengel Museum (Kestner Museum Collection)
Benesch 327
Rembrandt
Three Studies of a Bearded Man on Crutches and a Woman, c.1632-35
GB London, British Museum
Benesch 328
School of Rembrandt
An Old Man in a Tall Hat, full-length, leaning on
a stick, c.1637-38
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rijksprentenkabinet
Benesch 328 COMPARATIVE Illustration: DETAIL, Enlarged
Benesch 329 COMPARATIVE Illustrations:
Left to right: Benesch 330, 331, 336 and 329 actual size/ in proportion
All USA New York, Morgan Library
Benesch 329
Rembrandt?
Head of a Bearded Man in a High Cap, profile to left, c.1632?
USA New York, Morgan Library
Benesch 329 COMPARATIVE Illustrations:
Benesch 336 [detail] and Benesch 329 enlarged in proportion
Both USA New York, Morgan Library
Benesch 328 COMPARATIVE Illustration:
Benesch 0327 DETAIL, Enlarged
Benesch 329 COMPARATIVE Illustration:
Benesch 327 (detail, enlarged)
GB London, British Museum
Benesch 330
Rembrandt?
Bust of a Bearded Man in a Fur-Trimmed Hat, c.1632?
USA New York, Morgan Library
Benesch 330 COMPARATIVE Illustration, enlarged
Benesch 331
Rembrandt?
Bust of a Bearded Old Man in a High, Fur-Trimmed Cap, c.1632?
USA New York, Morgan Library
Benesch 331 COMPARATIVE Illustration, enlarged.
Benesch 332
Rembrandt?
Head of a Bearded Man in a Flat Cap, c.1632-35?
F Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu
Benesch 332A
Rembrandt??
Bust of a Young Man with a High Barret, c.1632-35?
Private Collection, New York
Drawings still considered to be by Rembrandt are aligned to the left
Drawings no longer considered to be by Rembrandt are aligned to the right
Comparative illustrations are ranged
down the centre
and some 'attributed' drawings
NB The illustrations are almost all taken from readily available online resources. They must not be used for commercial purposes.
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Benesch 332 Enlarged
Benesch 0333
Rembrandt?
Head of a Man in a Fur Cap, c.1632-34
F Paris, Musée du Louvre
Benesch 333, COMPARATIVE Illustration, enlarged
Benesch 334
Rembrandt?
Bust of Old Man in a Fur Hat, c.1632-35
D Berlin, Wennerscheid [according to Benesch]
Benesch 334 COMPARATIVE Illustration, enlarged
Benesch 335
Govert Flinck?
Bust of a Bearded Man in a Barret, c.1634-35
F Private Collection
Benesch 335 COMPARATIVE Illustration, enlarged
Benesch 336
Rembrandt*
A Bearded Elder and a Self-Portrait, c.1633-34
USA New York, Morgan Library
Ben 336 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Rembrandt
Detail of St John the Baptist Preaching, c.1633-34
D Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
Benesch 336 COMPARATIVE Illustration, enlarged
Benesch 337
Govert Flinck?
Bust of a Man in Kingly Costume, c.1636-38?
D Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung
Benesch 338
Govert Flinck?
Bust of a Man in Kingly Costume, c.1636-38?
D Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung
Benesch 337 COMPARATIVE Illustration, enlarged
Benesch 338 COMPARATIVE Illustration, enlarged
Benesch 339
Rembrandt
Four Studies of Male Heads, c.1635-36
USA Cambridge (Mass.), Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Maida and George Abrams Collection.
Benesch 339 COMPARATIVE Illustration, Detail, enlarged
Benesch 339A
Rembrandt?
Four Studies of Men, c.1639
GB Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Benesch 340
Rembrandt
Sheet of Studies, Mostly Male Heads, and with a woman cradling her child studied three times, c.1634-35
GB Birmingham, Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Benesch 340a
Johann Daniel Laurentz after Rembrandt?
Bust of an Elderly Man Wearing a Sixteenth-Century Style Cap, c.1650?
Etching
Benesch 0341 recto
Rembrandt
Five Studies of Heads, 1633
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Benesch 0341 verso
Rembrandt
Two Cottages, 1633
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Benesch 342
Rembrandt
A Young Woman Carrying a Child, c.1636-37?
NL Amsterdam, Museum het Rembrandthuis
Benesch 343
Rembrandt
Three Studies of Women Carrying a Child, c.1637-38
F Paris, Fondation Custodia. Frits Lugt Collection
Benesch 344
Rembrandt??
A Woman Holding a Child in her Arms, c.1632-35?
A Vienna, Albertina
Benesch 346
Rembrandt
Bust of a Bearded Man in a Fur Hat, c.1639-40
NL Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum
Benesch 346 COMPARATIVE Illustration, Enlarged
Benesch 347
Rembrandt
A Seated Man, Listening, c.1638
GB London, Courtauld Institute
Benesch 348
Rembrandt
Two Men Listening (after Raphael), c.1634?
Whereabouts unknown (formerly Dr van Lucius, The Hague)
Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael
St Paul Preaching at Athens, engraving
GB London, The British Museum
Benech 343 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Watermark
Benesch 349
School of Rembrandt (Ferdinand Bol??)
A Bearded Old Man in a Fur Cap
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
Benesch 349 COMPARATIVE Illustration, enlarged
Benesch 350
Rembrandt?
Bust of an Elderly Man in a Flat Cap, c.1635-39
USA Washington, National Gallery of Art (Widener Collection)
Benesch 350 COMPARATIVE Illustration, enlarged
Benesch 350 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Detail of Benesch 340
Benesch 350 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Not in Benesch
Rembrandt
Seated Old Man
F Paris, Fondation Custodia (recto of the adjacent illustration
Benesch 350 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Not in Benesch
Rembrandt
Standing Woman
F Paris, Fondation Custodia (verso of the adjacent illustration)
Benesch 351 recto
Rembrandt
Studies of Five Figures, c.1634
S Stockholm, Nationalmuseum
Benesch 351 verso
Rembrandt
Composition Sketch with Figures in Movement Near an Entrance (The Massacre of the Innocents?), c.1634
S Stockholm, Nationalmuseum
Benesch 351 recto COMPARATIVE Illustration: Benesch 142 recto.
Benesch 351 verso COMPARATIVE Illustration: Benesch 151, Detail
Benesch 351 COMPARATIVE Illustration: Benesch 145
Benesch 352
Rembrandt? or Flinck?
Bust of a Man in a Turban, c.1640-45
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Benesch 352 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Detail of Benesch 682
Benesch 353
School of Rembrandt (Constantijn Daniël van Renesse??)
Half-Length Study of a Man in a Turban by a Window, with a Girl Beyond, c.1652
D Berlin, Staatliche Museen Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
Benesch 353 VERSO
Photo to come
Benesch 354
Rembrandt
Full-Length Standing Woman in Exotic Attire; Bust of a Woman in Profile to left, c.1653
D Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung
Benesch 355
School of Rembrandt, either partly after Rembrandt or with some incipient work by Rembrandt or Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Bust of a Man Wearing a Cap, profile to left, c.1635-40
D Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung
Benesch 356
School of Rembrandt
An Old Woman Wearing Spectacles, reading, c.1630-35
P Wroclaw, Ossolineum (National Ossoliński Institute)
Benesch 357
Rembrandt
A Kneeling Man; Head of a Woman, c.1637
A Vienna, Albertina
Benesch 357 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Rembrandt, The Baptism of the Eunuch, etching 1641
DETAIL REVERSED
Benesch 357 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Rembrandt, The Baptism of the Eunuch, etching, 1641
USA, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Gift of Jesse Howard Jr., 1922; inv.22.52.3)
Benesch 358
Rembrandt
Sketch-Sheet with Two Women Walking, one carrying a bundle and two dead birds, accompanied by a child, c.1647
D Berlin, Staatliche Museen Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
Benesch 0359
Ferdinand Bol
A Seated Woman Suckling a Child, c.1644
F Paris, Musée du Louvre
Benesch 360 Recto
Rembrandt
Four Studies of Women, two holding an infant, 1633?
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Benesch 360 Verso
Rembrandt
Sketches of Men on Horseback, 1633?
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Benesch 360 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Detail of Benesch 0151
Benesch 360 COMPARATIVE Illustrations: details of Bartsch 358; NH 58 of c.1630 (Reversed)
and Bartsch 152 NH 110 of 1632 to compare trails of zigzag shading in Benesch 360.
Benesch 360 COMPARATIVE Illustration to compare:
1. Portrait of Saskia with the models seen in Benesch 360
2. Trails of zigzag shading as at upper right of Benesch 360.
Benesch 360 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Rembrandt
Studies of the Head of 'Saskia' and others, 1636
Etching, 151 x 126mm
GB London, British Museum (inv. F,6.129)
Benesch 0360 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630)
A Standing Horse, with Lowered Head, Facing Right, from
the Series: Horses from Different Lands, 1590
Bartsch 943
USA Cambridge (Mass.) Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall, by exchange
(inv. S9.104.5)
Benesch 361
Rembrandt
Two Men Rowing, c.1635
H Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum
Benesch 361 COMPARATIVE Illustration, Enlarged
Benesch 361 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Rembrandt
The Mill, c.1645
USA Washington, National Gallery of Art
Benesch 361 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Rembrandt
The Mill, c.1645 (Detail)
USA Washington, National Gallery of Art
Benesch 362
Govert Flinck?
Man in a Plumed Hat with a Halberd, c.1640-45
CH Basel, Kunstmuseum
Benesch 362 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Govert Flinck, The Civic Guardsmen of the Company of Captain Joan Huydecoper and Lieutenant Frans van Waveren (Detail), 1648-50
NL Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum
Benesch 363 Recto
Rembrandt
A Figure Mounting a Horse, with an assistant, c.1637
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rijksprentenkabinet
Benesch 363 Verso
Rembrandt
A Rider with a Quiver on Horseback, seen from behind, c.1637
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rijksprentenkabinet
Benesch 363 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Rembrandt
The Concord of the State, DETAIL, c.1637
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Benesch 363 COMPARATIVE Illustration
Rembrandt
The Concord of the State, c.1637
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Benesch 363 Verso COMPARATIVE Illustration
Rembrandt
The Baptism of the Eunuch, etching, 1641
USA, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Gift of Jesse Howard Jr., 1922; inv.22.52.3)
Benesch 0364
Govert Flinck?? Rembrandt??
A Winged Hussar on Horseback with Two Orientals in Turbans, c.1638?
Whereabouts unknown (formerly with J.H. Boehler, Munich, stock no.3360)
Benesch 365
Rembrandt
A Black Drummer and Commander Mounted on Mules, c.1638
GB London, British Museum
Benesch 366
Rembrandt
Four Black Musicians with Wind Instruments, c.1638
USA New York, The Morgan Library (Thaw Collection)
Benesch 366 Fig.a
Rembrandt
Detail from St John The Baptist Preaching, c.1633-34
D Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
Benesch 0367
A Mounted Officer, c.1638
GB London, British Museum
Benesch 368
Rembrandt
Two Mummers on Horseback, c.1638
USA New York, The Morgan Library
Benesch 359 fig.a
After Ferdinand Bol, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
USA San Diego, Museum of Fine Arts
Benesch 369
Rembrandt
A Bearded Man in a High, Fur-Trimmed Hat, c.1635?
F Paris, Musée du Louvre
Benesch 369 DETAIL
Benesch 369 Fig.a
Rembrandt
Detail from St John the Baptist Preaching, c.1633-34
D Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
Benesch 370
Rembrandt
Three Studies of Men with Fur Caps, c.1635?
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Fig.a, Detail showing a horizontal 'white line effect' at the platemark caused by the printing of the etching on the verso.
Benesch 370 Verso
Rembrandt
Bearded Old Man in a High Fur Cap (Bartsch 290; NH 148), c.1635
Etching
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Benesch 371
Aert de Gelder?
Two Studies of Men's Heads, c.1665?
Present whereabouts unknown (formerly Paris, Comtesse de Béhague)
For the illustration, from a black and white photograph, I have deployed a ‘sunscreen’ filter in MS Pictures to create an approximation to the original tonalities.
Fig.a. Aert de Gelder? A Seated Man Wearing a Hat, Van Regteren Altena sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 10 December, 2014, lot 163
Benesch 371 Enlarged (black and white image)
Fig.b. Aert de Gelder? Standing Oriental, c.1665-70.
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Benesch 372 Enlarged
Benesch 372
Rembrandt?
Two Small Head Studies, c.1630-35
NL Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum
Benesch 373
Rembrandt
An Old Woman with a Stick and Other Sketches of Women, c.1647-50?
NL Amsterdam, Museum het Rembrandthuis
Benesch 374
Rembrandt
Seated Woman, resting her head in her left hand, c.1646-48
Present whereabouts unknown
Benesch 0375
Rembrandt
A Pregnant Woman and a Man Holding a Violin, c.1645-50
A Vienna, Albertina
Benesch 0375 Detail
Benesch 0376 Recto
Rembrandt
A Seated Woman, Stripped to the Waist, c.1633-35?
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Benesch 376 Verso
Rembrandt
A Standing Woman, c.1633-35
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Benesch 377
Rembrandt? Govert Flinck??
A Woman Carrying a Child with a Man in a Fur Hat, c.1638-39?
F Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Besançon
Benesch 378
School of Rembrandt (after Rembrandt?)
Bust of an Old Woman in a Turban, c.1638-45
Formerly Tobias Christ, Basel
Benesch 378 Enlarged
Benesch 379 DETAIL enlarged
Benesch 379 Recto
Rembrandt
A Sleeping Boy, c.1635
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
Fig.a. Benesch 340 Detail
GB Birmingham, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham
Benesch 379 Verso
Rembrandt
Sketch of a Woman in Bed (Saskia?)
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
Benesch 380
School of Rembrandt (Ferdinand Bol?)
A Woman Lying in Bed, c.1641-45
GB London, British Museum
Benesch 380 Fig.a
Rembrandt
A Woman (Saskia) in Bed (Detail of Etching, Bartsch 369; NH 177), c.1641-42
USA New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Bequest of Clifford A. Furst, by exchange)
Benesch 380, Detail, enlarged
Benesch 381 DETAIL, Enlarged
Benesch 381
Rembrandt
Study Sheet with Three Women and a Boy, c.1639
USA New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Benesch 381, Fig.a. Rembrandt, The Angel Departing from Tobit and his Family, 1641. Etching, 103 x 164. Bartsch 43; NH 189, 2nd state.
GB London, The British Museum (inv.1910,0212.378)
Benesch 380
Watermark
Benesch 0382 Recto
Rembrandt
A Seated Woman with a Child on her Lap, c.1641-46
F Paris, Fondation Custodia (Coll. Frits Lugt)
Benesch 0382 Verso
Rembrandt
The Adoration of the Magi, c.1641-46
F Paris, Fondation Custodia (Coll. Frits Lugt)
Benesch 382 Verso, DETAIL, Enlarged
Benesch 383
Rembrandt
Three Studies of a Man Seen in Profile, c.1637-40
S Stockholm, Nationalmuseum
Benesch 383 Enlarged
Benesch 384
School of Rembrandt (Rembrandt??)
Head of an Old Woman, c.1635- 40/
c.1650-55
D Berlin, Staatliche Museen Berlin,
Kupferstichkabinett
Benesch 384 Enlarged
Benesch 385 Enlarged
Benesch 385
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout?
A Woman Reading, c.1635-40
USA New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Benesch 385a
Carl Ludwig Stieglitz (1727-1787) Etching after Rembrandt??
A Seated Young Woman Reading, c.1635-40?
Benesch 354 Enlarged
Benesch 0386
Ferdinand Bol? / Rembrandt??
Four Studies of the Head of a Woman; A Seated Old Woman;
A Standing Man, c.1635-40
Private Collection
Benesch 0386
From a more recent photograph, showing the condition of the sheet.
Benesch 387
Rembrandt?
Bust of a Figure Carrying a Child on its Back, c.1638-40?
F Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie
Benesch 387 Enlarged
Benesch 388
Rembrandt*
Two Studies for the Sick Woman in the “Hundred Guilder Print”, c.1645-48
PC USA New York, Clement C. Moore II
Benesch 389
Willem Drost?
Standing Man with a Leather Bag, c.1650-55
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
Benesch 389 Enlarged
Benesch 390
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout? / Rembrandt?
An Artist in his Studio, c.1635?
USA Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Benesch 390 DETAIL, Enlarged
Benesch 390, Fig. a
Albrecht Dürer
Illustration from 'Unterweysung der Messung’, 1525
Woodcut, 129 x 182.
GB London, The British Museum (inv.E,2.398)
Benesch 391 Recto
Rembrandt
Two Women Teaching a Child to Walk; A Woman Seen from the Back, c.1638-39
F Paris, Fondation Custodia (Collection F. Lugt).
Benesch 391 Verso
Rembrandt
Two Small Sketches of the Head of a Man, c.1638-39
F Paris, Fondation Custodia, Collection F. Lugt.
Benesch 391 Recto Detail Enlarged
Benesch 391 Verso Detail Enlarged
Benesch 392
Rembrandt
An Interior with a Spiral Staircase, a man seated to the right, c.1635-39
D Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst
Benesch 0393
Rembrandt
A Cow in a Shed, with a wheelbarrow and a figure, c.1638-39
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
Benesch 393 The Watermark
Benesch 394
Rembrandt
Tavern Scene, with a Lascivious Man Fended Off by a Woman, c.1638-39
R Moscow, Pushkin Museum (under dispute), formerly NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Franz Koenigs Collection (inv. R 20).
Benesch 394 Detail, Enlarged
Benesch 395
Rembrandt
A Woman Having her Hair Done (Saskia), c.1638-39
A Vienna, Albertina
Fig.a. Benesch 395 in black and white to approximate to the original monochrome effect
Benesch 395 Detail, Enlarged
Benesch 396
Rembrandt
A Woman having her Hair Combed, c.1638-39
F Paris, Fondation Custodia
Benesch 396 Enlarged
Benesch 397
Ferdinand Bol (retouched by Rembrandt?)
A Man and a Woman Seated at a Table, c.1640-41
Private Collection (presumably with the heirs of Dr George Baer of New Rochelle, N.Y. )
Fig.a (Benesch 606)
Benesch 398
Rembrandt
Tric-Trac Players, c.1635
I Venice, Gallerie dell' Accademia
Benesch 399
Rembrandt
Four Men Around a Table, One Playing the Flute, c.1635
GB Norwich, Castle Museum
Benesch 399 Detail Enlarged
Fig.a
Benesch 164, Detail, Enlarged
Benesch 399 Detail, Enlarged
Benesch 400
Rembrandt
Two Butchers at Work, c.1635-36
D Frankfurt, Städel
Fig. a. Philips Galle after Maerten van Heemskerck, The Prodigal Son: the Slaughter of the Fatted Calf, 1562. Engraving, 210 x 245 mm.
Benesch 400 DETAIL , Enlarged [1]
Benesch 400 DETAIL, Enlarged
Benesch 400 DETAIL, Enlarged [3]
Benesch 401
Rembrandt
The Naughty Boy, c.1635
D Berlin, Staatliche Museen Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
Benesch 401, DETAIL, Enlarged
Fig.a
Enlarged Detail of Rembrandt's etching, The Pancake Woman, 1635. Bartsch 124; NH 144 (first state)
London, British Museum (inv.1848,0911.62)
Benesch 402
A Woman and Five Children, c.1635
D Bremen, Kunsthalle, formerly.
Benesch 403 Recto
Rembrandt
A Woman Reassuring a Child Frightened by a Dog, c.1633-34
F Paris, Fondation Custodia, Collection F. Lugt.
Benesch 403, Fig.b
Ignace-Joseph de Claussin
Etching after Benesch 403, later state, cut at top, horizontal lines burnished out and with added inscription.
Benesch 403 Recto DETAIL, Enlarged
Benesch 403, Fig.a
Ignace-Joseph de Claussin
Etching after Benesch 403
GB London, British Museum
Benesch 403 Verso
Rembrandt
Two Studies of a Woman Carrying a Child, c.1635
F Paris, Fondation Custodia, Collection F. Lugt
Benesch 403A Recto
Rembrandt
A Woman with a Child in her Arms, c.1635
S Stockholm, Nationalmuseum
Benesch 403A Recto, Enlarged
Benesch 403A Verso
Rembrandt (reworked by a later hand)
A Man's Head in Profile to Left, c.1646
S Stockholm, Nationalmuseum
Benesch 403A Verso, Enlarged to show later rework in grey wash, including touches with then tip of the brush in the beard and below
Benesch 404
Rembrandt
A Bedroom with a Woman in Bed (Saskia), 1638?
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
Fig.a. Attributed to Esaias Boursse (1631-1672), An Interior with a Family and Two Nurses before a Fire
USA Wisconsin, Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE)
Benesch 405
Rembrandt
Saskia in Bed, a Maid Seated Beside Her, c.1635-36
D Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung
Benesch 405, Detail, Enlarged
Benesch 406
Rembrandt
Figures at a Doorway, c.1638-39
Private Collection, CH Geneva
also below from image found online, but 'watermarked'
Benesch 0407
Rembrandt
Three Women and a Child by a Door, c.1639-40
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
Benesch 407 Watermark
Benesch 408
School of Rembrandt
Two Women and a Man by a Door, c.1650-55
NL The Hague, Museum Bredius
Benesch 409
Rembrandt
The Pancake Woman, c.1635-40?
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
Fig.a
Rembrandt
The Pancake Woman
Etching, 1635, first state
GB London, British Museum (1848,0911.62)
Fig.b
Jan van de Velde
The Pancake Woman
Etching, 185 x 129. Hollestein 148, first state
GB London, British Museum (S.15839)
Fig.c
Theodor Matham after Adriaen Brouwer
The Pancake Woman
Etching. 182mm diameter. Hollstein 34, first state
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum (RP-P-1882-A-6310)
Benesch 409 DETAIL, enlarged
Benesch 410
School of Rembrandt (possibly retouched by Rembrandt with wash)
A Woman in Bed and a Nurse
NL Groningen, Groninger Museum
Benesch 411
Rembrandt
A Woman with a Child Frightened by a Dog, c.1637-38
H Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum
Benesch 411 Enlarged to 200%
Benesch 412
School of Rembrandt (Carel Fabritius??), retouched by Rembrandt?
A Child Trying to Walk Between Two Standing Women; a sketch of a head, c.1640-45
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
Benesch 412, DETAIL Fig.a Benesch 406, DETAIL Fig.b Benesch 147, DETAIL
Benesch 413
Rembrandt (much reworked by an inferior hand)
A Bedroom with a Woman Reclining in Bed, with a Child, c.1638-39
USA Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Art Museum
Figs.a-f
Comparisons between details of Benesch 413 (Figs a, c and e) and Benesch 404 (Figs b, d and f). Note the additions by a later hand in grey wash, including the candle on the chair in Fig.c.
Figs.a-b
Figs c-d
Figs e-f
Benesch 414
Rembrandt
Two Women, One Seated with a Child, c.1636-37
P Wroclaw, Ossolineum (National Ossoliński Institute)
Benesch 415
Ferdinand Bol?
Two Seated Women with a Child, c.1638-40?
Private Collection, USA, New York
Benesch 416
Rembrandt
A Quack Addressing a Crowd from a Platform, c.1636-37
D Berlin, Staatliche Museen Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
Fig.a. Gerrit Dou, The Quacksalver, 1748. Oil on panel, 112.4 x 83.4
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (on loan from the Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen ,1939)
Benesch 416 DETAIL, enlarged
Benesch 416 DETAIL, enlarged
Benesch 417
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
A Quack Addressing a Crowd, c.1637
GB London, Courtauld Gallery, Samuel Courtauld Trust
Benesch 417 Detail,
enlarged
Benesch 417 Detail, enlarged
Benesch 417 Detail
Fig.a Benesch 147, Detail
Benesch 418 Recto
Rembrandt
A Quack, c.1636-37
Canada, Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario
Benesch 418 Verso
Rembrandt
Head of an Old Woman, c.1628-29
Canada, Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario
Benesch 418 Recto, Enlarged
Fig. e Detail of Benesch 759
Benesch 418A
Rembrandt
Peasants Brawling in an Inn, c.1635
F Montpellier, Musée Fabre
Benesch 418A ENLARGED
Benesch 418A DETAIL Enlarged
Fig.c. Left: Detail of Benesch 133 of c.1633-35 with (right) detail of Benesch 418A
Fig.b. Left: detail of Benesch 418A with (right) detail of Benesch A18 of c.1635 (on which see the 'Not in Benesch' tab)
Fig.a. Left: Benesch 418A, Detail, with details of Benesch A35 of 1644 (centre - on which see the 'Not in Benesch' tab) and Benesch 95 of c.1637-39 (right)
Benesch 418B
Govert Flinck
Soldiers Playing Cards in an Interior, c.1638-39
Whereabouts unknown (formerly NL The Hague, S. de Clercq)
Benesch 418B Enlarged
Fig.a
Govert Flinck
Joseph Interpreting Dreams
Pen and brown ink. 114 × 135
USA Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Benesch 0419 Recto
School of Rembrandt (Govert Flinck??)
A Pedlar with a Woman and Child, c.1638-39?
USA New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehmann Collection
Benesch 419 Verso
School of Rembrandt (Rembrandt??)
Sketch of the Head of an Old Woman, c.1630-31?
USA New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehmann Collection
Benesch 420
School of Rembrandt (after Rembrandt??)
A Woman and Child with a Man in a Chair, c.1636-40
Present whereabouts unknown
Benesch 421
Rembrandt
Two Women Teaching a Child to Walk, c.1635-37
GB London, British Museum
Benesch 422
Rembrandt
A Woman Teaching a Child to Stand, c.1635-37
GB London, British Museum
Benesch 423 Recto
Rembrandt*
The Artist Drawing from the Model, c.1639
GB London, British Museum
Benesch 423 Verso
Rembrandt*
Joseph expounding the Prisoners' Dreams, c.1639
GB London, British Museum
Benesch 423 Recto (reduced)
Fig.a Rembrandt, The Artist Drawing from the Model,
Etching, 232 x 184, 1st state GB London,
British Museum (1895,1214.111)
Fig.b Rembrandt, The Artist Drawing from the Model, Etching, 232 x 1845 2nd state. GB London,
British Museum (F,5.140)
Fig.c Peter Feddes van Harlingen, Pygmalion, 1615,
Etching, 223 x 156, Private Collection.
Fig.d Jacopo de' Barbari, Venus and Fame, Engraving,
182 x 123, c.1503-4, GB Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Fig.e After Praxiteles (?), "Venus Felix"
Marble, 2.14m high
Vatican Museums.
Benesch 424-
Benesch 424
Rembrandt? (Gerbrand van den Eeckhout??)
Pastoral Scene, c.1636-38
P Wroclaw, Ossolineum
Benesch 424. Low-resolution jpeg from Ossolineum site,
showing contrast between brown ink in the foreground
and the black ink in the background
(https://ossolineum.pl/old/rembrandt/ilustr34.jpg (accessed
17 April 2019)
Benesch 0425
Rembrandt
A Woman (Saskia?) in Bed, and a Nurse, c.1640-41
D Weimar, Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Schlossmuseum
Ben 0425 Verso
Rembrandt
Sketch of a Standing Man in a Cloak, c.1638-41
D Weimar, Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Schlossmuseum
NB Poor quality scan.
Benesch 426
Rembrandt
Saskia in Bed and a Seated Maid, c.1639-40
F Paris, Fondation Custodia
Fig.a Benesch 0421-22 photographed in transmitted light and (speculatively) re-joined as they may originally have been, following the pattern of the laid and chain lines and the shadowing caused by variations in the thickness of the paper.
Fig.a Detail of Benesch 519 (left)
with a detail of Benesch 332 (right)
both enlarged: the fine underdrawing
in the former resembles the latter
Fig.d. Detail of Benesch 418A (centre) with details of Benesch 340 of c.1634-35 (left) and Benesch 292 of c.1635 (right)
Fig.e. Left: detail of Benesch 400 with detail of
Benesch 418A (right)
Benesch 421, Enlarged