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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 26, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Master Paintings & Sculpture Evening Sale | 26 | $****** - ****** | PORTRAIT OF A SEATED WOMAN WITH HER HANDS CLASPED |
paintings
oil on canvas
Sir Abraham Hume (1749-1838), London, by 1818;
Presumably by direct descent to his great-grandson, Adelbert Wellington Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow (1844-1921), London, by 1899;
With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1900;
E.F. Milliken, New York;
His sale, Christie's, London, 31 May 1902, lot 41, for £5,775, where acquired by Donaldson;
Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925), London;
With F. Kleinberger, Paris, after 1907;
Friedrich Ludwig von Gans (1833-1920), Frankfurt, by 1916;
With Bachstitz Gallery, New York, probably acquired from the above, by 1930;
From whom acquired by Mrs. (Florence) Daniel Guggenheim (1863-1944), New York;
Daniel Guggenheim (1856-1930), New York;
By descent to her daughter, Gladys Eleonor Guggenheim Straus (1895-1980), wife of Roger W. Straus, New York;
From whom acquired by the present owner in 1977.
London, British Institution, 1818, no. 121 (lent by Hume);
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1899, no. 78 (lent by Brownlow);
Paris, Sedelmeyer Gallery, 1900 no. 29;
London, Royal Academy, Old Masters, deceased masters of the British School, watercolours & chalk drawings, 1907, no. 56 (lent by Donaldson);
F. Muller & Co., Amsterdam 1907, no. 36;
New York, World's Fair, Masterpieces of Art, 1939, no. 310;
Yokohama, Fukuoka and Kyoto, Rembrandt and the Bible, 1986-7 no. 10, catalogue by Dr Christopher Brown.
A descriptive catalogue of pictures belonging to Sir Abraham Hume, London 1824, p. 36, cat. no. 113 (here and below as by Rembrandt);
C. Sedelmeyer, Catalogue of 100 Paintings, Paris 1900, vi, cat. no. 29;
J. Herbert Slater (ed.), Art Sales of the Year 1902, being a record of the prices obtained at auction for pictures and prints sold from October, 1901, to the end of the season 1902, London 1903,
W. van Bode and C. Hofstede de Groot, The Complete Work of Rembrandt, Paris 1897-1906, page 564, cat. no. 480, reproduced;
W.R. Valentiner (ed.) Klassiker der Kunst; Rembrandt, Des Meisters Gemälde, 3rd edition, Stuttgart and Berlin 1908, reproduced p. 496;
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, London 1914, vol. III, pp. 1004, 1015, 1017;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné..., vol. VI, London 1916, p. 252, cat. no. 498;
A. Bredius (ed.), The Paintings of Rembrandt, London 1935, vol. I, p. 22, cat. no. 396, reproduced vol. II, plate 396;
J. Rosenberg, Rembrandt, Cambridge Mass. 1948, vol. I, p. 246;
K. Bauch, Rembrandt Gemälde, Berlin 1966, cat. no. 526;
H. Gerson, Rembrandt Paintings, Amsterdam 1968, p. 436, cat. no. 388, pp. 503, 518, 522 (not seen in person by the author);
P. Lecaldano, Rembrandt, L'opera completa, Milan 1969, p. 121, cat. no. 409, reproduced.
