Benesch 325-426 illustrations

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Benesch 326
Rembrandt??
A Bearded Man, half-length, in
exotic costume 1638?
D Hannover, Sprengel Museum (Kestner Museum Collection)

Benesch 328
School of Rembrandt
An Old Man in a Tall Hat, full-length, leaning on a stick
1637-38?
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rijksprentenkabinet

Benesch 328, Detail, Enlarged

Benesch 329 COMPARATIVE Illustration. Benesch 327, Detail, enlarged. GB London,
British Museum

Benesch 329 COMPARATIVE Illustrations: Benesch 336 [detail] and Benesch 329 enlarged in proportion. Both USA New York, Morgan Library

Benesch 332A
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout? / Rembrandt??
Bust of a Young Man with a High Barret 1632-35?
Art market 2021

Benesch 333, Enlarged

Benesch 0333
Rembrandt?
Head of a Man in a Fur Cap 1632-34?
F Paris, Musée du Louvre

Benesch 334, Enlarged

Benesch 334
Rembrandt?
Bust of Old Man in a Fur Hat 1632-35?
D Berlin, Wennerscheid [according to Benesch]

Benesch 335, Enlarged

Benesch 335
Govert Flinck?
Bust of a Bearded Man in a Barret 1634-35?
F Private Collection

Benesch 337
Govert Flinck?
Bust of a Man in Kingly Costume 1636-38?
D Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung

Benesch 338
Govert Flinck?
Bust of a Man in Kingly Costume 1636-38?
D Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung

Benesch 337, Enlarged

Benesch 338, Enlarged

Benesch 340a
Johann Daniel Laurentz after Rembrandt?
Bust of an Elderly Man Wearing a
Sixteenth-Century Style Cap 1650?
Etching

Benesch 343
Rembrandt
Three Studies of Women Carrying a Child 1637-38?
F Paris, Fondation Custodia. Frits Lugt Collection

Benech 343, Watermark

Benesch 344
Rembrandt??
A Woman Holding a Child in her Arms 1632-35?
A Vienna, Albertina

Benesch 347
Rembrandt
A Seated Man, Listening 1638
GB London, Courtauld Institute

Benesch 348
Rembrandt
Two Men Listening (after Raphael)
1634? [dimensions unknown]
Whereabouts unknown (formerly
Dr van Lucius, The Hague)

COMPARATIVE Illustration. Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael,
St Paul Preaching at Athens, engraving. GB London, The British Museum

Benesch 349, Enlarged

Benesch 349
School of Rembrandt (Ferdinand Bol??)
A Bearded Old Man in a Fur Cap 1636-38?
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum

Benesch 350 COMPARATIVE Illustration. Detail of Benesch 340

Benesch 350, Enlarged

Benesch 350
Rembrandt?
Bust of an Elderly Man
in a Flat Cap 1635-39?
USA Washington, National
Gallery of Art (Widener
Collection)

Benesch 352
COMPARATIVE Illustration.
Detail of Benesch 682

Benesch 352
Rembrandt? or Flinck?
Bust of a Man in a Turban 1640-45?
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans
van Beuningen

Benesch 354
Rembrandt
Full-Length Standing Woman in Exotic Attire; Bust of a Woman in Profile to left 1653?
D Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung

Benesch 354 Enlarged

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 1635-40?
D Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung

Benesch 356
School of Rembrandt
An Old Woman Wearing Spectacles, reading 1630-35?
P Wroclaw, Ossolineum (National Ossoliński Institute)

Benesch 359 Fig.a. After Ferdinand Bol, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt. USA San Diego, Museum of Fine Arts

Benesch 359
Ferdinand Bol
A Seated Woman Suckling a Child 1644
F Paris, Musée du Louvre

Benesch 360 Verso
Rembrandt
Sketches of Men on Horseback 1633?
NL Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Benesch 360 Verso COMPARATIVE
Illustration. Detail of Benesch 151

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 362
Govert Flinck?
Man in a Plumed Hat
with a Halberd 1640-45?
CH Basel, Kunstmuseum

Benesch 0364
Govert Flinck?? Rembrandt??
A Winged Hussar on Horseback with Two Orientals in Turbans 1638?
Whereabouts unknown (formerly with J.H. Boehler, Munich, stock no.3360)

Benesch 371 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
Aert de Gelder?
Two Studies of Men’s Heads 1665?
Present whereabouts unknown (formerly Paris, Comtesse de Béhague). NB 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.

Benesch 371 Enlarged (black and white image)

Benesch 372
Rembrandt?
Two Small Head Studies, c.1630-35
NL Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum

Benesch 372, Enlarged

Benesch 0375
Rembrandt
A Pregnant Woman and a Man Holding
a Violin 1645-50?
A Vienna, Albertina

Benesch 0375 Detail,
enlarged

Benesch 377
Rembrandt? Govert Flinck??
A Woman Carrying a Child with a Man in a
Fur Hat 1638-39?
F Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et
d’Archéologie de Besançon

Benesch 378 Enlarged

Benesch 378
School of Rembrandt (after Rembrandt?)
Bust of an Old Woman in a Turban 1638-45?
Formerly Tobias Christ, Basel

Benesch 379 DETAIL enlarged

Fig.a. Benesch 340 Detail.

Benesch 382 Recto
Rembrandt
A Seated Woman with a Child on her Lap
1641-46?
F Paris, Fondation Custodia (Coll. Frits Lugt)

Benesch 382 Verso
Rembrandt
The Adoration of the Magi 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
1637-40?
S Stockholm, Nationalmuseum

Benesch 383 Enlarged

Benesch 385a
Carl Ludwig Stieglitz (1727-1787) Etching after Rembrandt??
A Seated Young Woman Reading 1635-40?

Benesch 389 Enlarged

Benesch 389
Willem Drost?
Standing Man with a Leather Bag, c.1650-55
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum

Benesch 396
Rembrandt
A Woman having her Hair Combed
1638-39?
F Paris, Fondation Custodia

Benesch 396 Enlarged

Fig.a. Benesch 606

Benesch 397
Ferdinand Bol (retouched by Rembrandt?)
A Man and a Woman Seated at a Table 1640-41?
Private Collection (presumably with the heirs of Dr George Baer of New Rochelle, N.Y. )

Benesch 400
Rembrandt
Two Butchers at Work, c.1635-36
D Frankfurt, Städel

Benesch 400 DETAIL , Enlarged [1]

Benesch 401
Rembrandt
The Naughty Boy 1635?
D Berlin, Staatliche Museen Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Fig.a (Right). Enlarged Detail of Rembrandt’s etching, The Pancake Woman, 1635. Bartsch 124; NH 144 (first state)
London, British Museum (inv. 1848,0911.62)

Benesch 401, DETAIL, Enlarged

Benesch 403, Fig.a. Ignace-Joseph de Claussin,
Etching after Benesch 403, GB London, British Museum

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 403A Recto
Rembrandt
A Woman with a Child in
her Arms 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 1646?
S Stockholm, Nationalmuseum

Benesch 403A Verso, Enlarged to show later
rework in grey wash, including touches with
the tip of the brush in the beard and below

Benesch 405, Detail, Enlarged

Benesch 406
Rembrandt
Figures at a Doorway 1638-39?
Private Collection, CH Geneva
also below from image found online, but ‘watermarked’

Benesch 408
School of Rembrandt
Two Women and a Man by a Door 1650-55?
NL The Hague, Museum Bredius

Benesch 409
Rembrandt
The Pancake Woman 1640? (or 1635??)
NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum

Benesch 409 Detail, enlarged

Fig.a. Rembrandt, The Pancake Woman.
Etching, 1635, first state. GB London,
British Museum (inv. 1848,0911.62)

Fig.b. Jan van de Velde, The Pancake Woman.
Etching, 185 x 129. Hollstein 148, first state
GB London, British Museum (inv. S.15839)

Fig.c. Theodor Matham after Adriaen Brouwer,
The Pancake Woman. Etching. 182mm diameter.
Hollstein 34, first state. NL Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
(inv. RP-P-1882-A-6310)

Benesch 410
School of Rembrandt (possibly retouched by Rembrandt with wash)
A Woman in Bed and a Nurse 1635-36? or (more probably) later
NL Groningen, Groninger Museum

Benesch 412, Detail

Fig.a Benesch 406, Detail 

Fig.b Benesch 147, Detail

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 

Fig. g. Detail of Benesch 759

Fig.c

Fig.d

Figs.e-f

Benesch 415
Ferdinand Bol?
Two Seated Women with a Child
1638-40?
Art market 2021

Benesch 416
Rembrandt
A Quack Addressing a Crowd from a Platform 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 Detail, enlarged

Benesch 417 Detail, enlarged

Benesch 417
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
A Quack Addressing a Crowd 1637?
GB London, Courtauld Gallery, Samuel Courtauld Trust

Benesch 417, Detail

Fig.a. Benesch 147, Detail

Benesch 418 Recto
Rembrandt
A Quack 1636-37?
Canada, Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario

Benesch 418 Verso
Rembrandt
Head of an Old Woman 1628-29?
Canada, Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario

Benesch 418 Recto, enlarged

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.c. Left: Detail of Benesch 133 of
c.1633-35 with (right) detail of Benesch 418A

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 418B
Govert Flinck
Soldiers Playing Cards in an Interior 1638-39?
Private Collection, Descendants of Samuel de Clercq

Fig.a. Govert Flinck, Joseph Interpreting Dreams. Pen
and brown ink, 114 × 135. USA Los Angeles, The J. Paul
Getty Museum

Benesch 418B Enlarged

Benesch 419 Recto
School of Rembrandt (Govert Flinck??)
A Pedlar with a Woman and Child 1638-39?
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 1636-40
Private Collection, Paris

Benesch 423 Recto
Rembrandt*
The Artist Drawing from the Model 1639
GB London, British Museum

Benesch 423 Verso
Rembrandt*
Joseph expounding the Prisoners’ Dreams 1639
GB London, British Museum

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 424
Rembrandt? (Gerbrand van den Eeckhout??)
Pastoral Scene, c.1636-38
P Wroclaw, Ossolineum