Rembrandt

Illustration number 1001337393
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: panel (oak), oil paint
Shape/dimensions: upright oval 73.5 x 55 cm

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

monogrammed and dated upper right: RHL van Ryn / 1632
inscription upper left: AE 62
inscription on the back: R 49
This inventory number refers to the paintings that were obtained by the Nazi's during the Second World War (Broos 2010, p. 104).

Current attribution: Rembrandt
This painting has generally been accepted as an autograph work by Rembrandt. Only Tümpel doubted the attribution and listed the painting as workshop of Rembrandt (Tümpel 1986, no. A 104).

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: dated 1632 (1632)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Portret van Aeltje Petersdr Uylenburgh
Other (former) title Other title(s) or name(s) which the work of art has had, or by which it is also known. This sometimes involves rejected identifications of the subject or sitter.: Portret van een 62-jarige vrouw
English title: Portrait of Aeltje Petersdr Uylenburgh
Genre: portrait
Keywords: woman's portrait, bust-length portrait, head to the left, body facing left, facing front, wing cap, dish-shaped collar, vlieger (gown)
: In 2000, Van der Veen identified the sitter as Aeltje Petersdr Uylenburgh, the wife of Johannes Sylvius and cousin of Rembrandt's future wife Saskia van Uylenburgh. Since then, this identification has generally been accepted. (auction catalogue Christie's, 2000-12-13; see also Broos 2010, p. 89-107).

Represented

IB number Number related to the portrait iconography collection RKD.: 117312

Aeltje Pietersdr. Uylenburgh ? - 1644

Name

waarschijnlijk Uylenburgh, Aeltje Pietersdr.

Date/place of death

Amsterdam (stad) 1644

Buried

1644

Marriage(s)

Joannes Cornelis Sylvius

Aetatis

62 (linksboven)

Identification based on: provenance; inscription

Artistically related

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

used as model for
Johann Heinrich Roos, Portret van een vrouw, mogelijk Aeltje Petersdr Uylenburgh (?-1644)

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection William G. Coesvelt, Londen (Engeland)
Broos 2010, p. 89-105
the painting was put up for auction on 1828-05-02, but not sold (Broos 2010, p. 89-105)
art dealer John Smith, London
- 1835-07 When J. Smith published the 7th volume of his Catalogue Raisonné in 1836, this painting was mentioned as "Now in the possession of the writer. Price 200£" (Smith 1829-1842, vol. 7 (1836), no. 573). However, shortly before this volume was published, in 1835, Smith had sold the painting to A. Brondgeest (auction catalogue Christie's, 2000-12-13).
art dealer or private collection Albertus Brondgeest, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1835-07 - bought from John Smith July 1835 (auction catalogue Christie's, 2000-12-13)
private collection James baron de Rothschild (1792-1868), Paris
In his 1864 "L'oeuvre complet de Rembrandt", Charles Blanc described the painting as in the possession of James the Rothschild, who had bought the painting at the auction of the "cabinet Périer" in Paris (Blanc 1859-1861, vol. 2 (1860), p. 371). However, according to Broos the painting is not mentioned in any auction catalogue of Périer (Broos 2010, p. 95).
- 1868
private collection Betty de Rothschild, Parijs
by descent from her husband James de Rothschild (Broos 2010, p. 95-96)
1868 - 1886
private collection Alphonse James baron de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris
by descent from his mother Betty de Rothschild (Broos 2010, p. 96-97)
1886 - 1905
private collection Édouard de Rothschild, Paris
By descent from his father Alphonse de Rothschild.The painting was captured by the Germans during the Second World War, but returned to É. Rothschild (Broos 2010, p. 98-99).
1905 - 1949
private collection Batsheva barones de Rothschild, Tel Aviv
by descent from her father Édouard de Rothschild (Broos 2010, p. 99)
1949 - 2000-12-03 end date is date of sale
Robert Noortman Gallery, Maastricht/London
2000-12-03 - 2005 bought by Noortman at the auction of 3 December 2000 (Broos 2010, p. 100); sold to Rose-Marie en Eijk de Mol van Otterloo in 2005 (Buvelot 2010, p. 20-21)
private collection Rose-Marie en Eijk van Otterloo Collection, United States
On loan to the Mauritshuis in The Hague from 2005 until 2008 (Buvelot 2010, p. 20-21) and to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from 2008 until 2017.
2005 - 2017-10 bought from Noortman in 2005 (Buvelot 2010, p. 20-21); donated to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston October 2017
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston (Massachusetts)
gift from Rose-Marie and Eijk de Mol van Otterloo
2017-10 -

Auction(s)

Stanley (London (England)) 1828-05-02 - 1828-05-03, lotnr. 37
Contributor through John Smith William G. Coesvelt

, Lugt no. 11730: "The portrait of an interesting old Lady, said to be the painter's mother, at the age of 62"; bought in
Christie's (London (England)) 2000-12-13, lotnr. 52
Contributor Baronesse Batsheva de Rothschild
Name buyer : Maastricht Noortman Gallery , 19803750 GBP

Broos 2010, p. 100

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Les chefs-d'oeuvre des collections privées françaises retrouvés en Allemagne Orangerie des Tuileries , Paris , 1946-06 - 1946-08 , cat. no. 79
Rembrandt's women National Gallery of Scotland , Edinburgh , 2001-06-08 - 2001-09-02 , cat. no. 18
Rembrandt's women Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 2001-09-22 - 2001-12-16 , cat. no. 18
Rembrandt Rembrandt [Frankfurt, 2003] Städelsches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt am Main , 2003-02-01 - 2003-05-11 , cat. no. 12
Rembrandt Graphische Sammlung Albertina , Vienna (city) , 2004-03-26 - 2004-06-27 , cat. no. 80
Uylenburgh & Zoon : kunst en commercie van Rembrandt tot De Lairesse 1625-1675 Museum Het Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam (city) , 2006-09-16 - 2006-12-10 , p. 138-140
Hollanders in beeld : portretten uit de Gouden Eeuw Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis , The Hague (city) , 2007-10-13 - 2008-01-13 , cat. no. 52
Made in Holland: oude meesters uit een Amerikaanse privéverzameling Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis , The Hague (city) , 2010-11-04 - 2011-01-30 , cat. no. 31
Golden : Dutch and Flemish masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection Peabody Essex Museum , Salem (Massachusetts) , 2011-02-26 - 2011-06-19 , cat. no. 48
Golden : Dutch and Flemish masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco , San Francisco , 2011-07-09 - 2011-10-02 , cat. no. 48
Golden : Dutch and Flemish masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection Museum of Fine Arts Houston , Houston (Texas) , 2011-11-13 - 2012-02-12 , cat. no. 48

Literature

Smith 1829-1842 , vol. 7 (1836), no. 573
Blanc 1859-1861 , vol. 2 (1860), p. 451
Vosmaer 1877 , p. 495
Bode 1883 , p. 460
Michel 1894 , p. 435
Bode/Hofstede de Groot 1897-1905 , vol. 2 (1897), no. 85
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 6 (1915), no. 877
Bredius 1935 , no. 333
Paris 1946 (Récupération) , no. 1946
Bauch 1966 , no. 461
Gerson 1968 , no. 127
Bredius/Gerson 1969 , no. 333
Lecaldano/Arpino 1969 , no. 92
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 2 (1986), no. A 63
Tümpel 1986 , no. A 104 , as workshop of Rembrandt
Slatkes 1992 , no. 181
Lloyd Williams/Dudok van Heel 2001 , no. 18
Giltaij 2003 , no. 12
Buvelot 2005 , p. 22-26
Lammertse/Van der Veen 2006 , p. 138-140, ill. 81
Ekkart/Buvelot/De Winkel 2007 , no. 52
Buvelot 2010 , no. 31, p. 90-91
Broos 2010 , p. 89-105
Duparc et al. 2011 , no. 48, p. 246-251
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 6 (2015), no. 75

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001337393)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0001113940)
BD/RKD/1818 - IB/XVIIB on Uylenburgh (img.nr. 0000255247)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000071328)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0001113941)

Project: The Rembrandt Database
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