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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Young Lion Resting

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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

(Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam)

Young Lion Resting

 

Black chalk, white chalk heightening, and gray wash, on brown laid paper

115 by 150 mm; 4½ by 5⅞ in. 


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Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736–1810), Paris1;

Robert Lebel (1901–86), Paris, by 19682;

with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, and Artemis Fine Art, London/New York, 2000;

with Otto Naumann Ltd., New York, 2005,

from whom acquired by the present owner

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan with the permanent collection, 2006;

Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Drawing Life: The Dutch Visual Tradition, 2009–10, no. 7;

Ithaca, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, An Eye For Detail: Dutch Painting from The Leiden Collection, 2015;

Paris, Museé du Louvre, Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection: The Age of Rembrandt, 2017, no 33 (entry by Dominique Surh);

Shanghai, Long Museum, West Bund, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals in the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection, 2017–18, no. 16;

Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts; St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection, 2018-19, no. 55;

Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age. Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection and the Musée du Louvre, 2019, no. 43;

Amsterdam, H’ART Museum, From Rembrandt to Vermeer: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection, 2025, pp. 112-113

S. Slive, The Drawings of Rembrandt: A New Study, London 2009, pp. 124, 235 note 52;

P. Schatborn, Rembrandt and His Circle: Drawings in the Frits Lugt Collection, 2 vols., Paris 2010,

pp. 88, 89 note 9;

M. Royalton-Kisch, Catalogue of Drawings by Rembrandt and His School in the British Museum,

London 2010 (online), under no. 29, n. 4;

M. Royalton-Kisch, The Drawings of Rembrandt. A Revision of Otto Benesch’s Catalogue Raisonné, online, (https://rembrandtcatalogue.net/), under ‘Drawings Not in Benesch’, posted March 2013;

Journal of National Museum of China 169, no. 8 (2017), reproduced back cover;

P. Schatborn, 'Young Lion Resting', in The Leiden Collection Catalogue, 4th ed. Edited by Arthur K. Wheelock

Jr. and Elizabeth Nogrady with Caroline Van Cauwenberge, New York 2023– (online),

https://theleidencollection.com/artwork/young-lion-resting/;

L. van der Werff, '‘Seecker jonge leeuw’: Historische Datum 30 January 1657, Notaris Jacob de

Winter', Alle Amsterdamse Akten, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam Stadsarchief, published October 3, 2018,

http://alleamsterdamseakten.nl/artikel/1608/seecker-jonge-leeuw/;

P. Schatborn and E. Hinterding, Rembrandt: The Complete Drawings and Etchings, Cologne 2019, pp. 19, 299, no. D474;

J.N. Coutré, ed., Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges, exhib. cat., Kingston, Ontario, Agnes Etherington Art Center, and elsewhere, 2019, p. 193, under no. 98.