FJK 107

Rembrandt (Harmensz Van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Threes Women on the Threshold of a House Seen from the Inside

ca. 1639
12 29/32 × 7 13/32 in. (238 × 188 mm)

Medium
Pen, brown ink and wash with white highlights on paper prepared with brown wash

Inscription from a collector (?) in brown ink upper right: f

Origin

Thomas Hudson Collection, London (1701-1779) (Lugt 2432)
Sir Joshua Reynolds Collection, London (1723-1792) (Lugt 2364)
5th Earl Aylesford Collection, London et Packington Hall (1786-1859) (Lugt 58)
Sale, Christie’s, London, July 17-18, 1893
Léon Bonnat Collection (1833-1922), Paris (Lugt 1714)
Sold by the latter during the First World War in aid of a sanatorium
Comtesse de Béhague Collection
Marquis de Ganay Collection
Sale, Sotheby’s, Monaco, Tableaux et Dessins Anciens. Chefs-d’œuvre de la Collection de Martine, Comtesse de Béhague provenant de la Succession du Marquis de Ganay, December 1, 1989, no. 71
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 4841
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

LIPPMAN F., OFSTEDE DE GROOT C., Zeichnungen von Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn in Lichtdruck nachgebildet, Berlin:Amsler & Ruthardt, 1888-1910, 4 vol., no. 19, ill.

HOFSTEDE DE GROOT C., Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, Haarlem, 1906, no. 739.

BODE W. and VALENTINER W.R., Handzeichnungen Altholländischer Genremaler, Berlin, 1907, pp. 23-24, no. 2.

VALENTINER W.R., Rembrandt: Des Meisters Handzeichnungen, Stuttgart-Berlin, 1907, vol. 2, no. 780 (ca. 1636).

NEUMANN C., Rembrandt Handzeichnungen, Munich, 1918, no. 13.

MEDER J., Die Handzeichnungen, Munich, 1923, fig. 316.

BENESCH Otto, Rembrandt, Werk und Forshung, Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1935, p. 23.

BENESCH Otto, Rembrandt, Selected Drawings, London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1947, p. 23, no. 61 ill

BENESCH Otto, The Drawings of Rembrandt, London, 1954, vol. II, p. 92, no. 406, fig. 462 (ca. 1635).

ROGER MARX Claude, Rembrandt, Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1960, pp. 162-163, fig. 43.

HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN E., “Review of Benesch,” in KunstchronikXIV, 1961, p. 27 (under Paris, Private Collection).

SLIVE Seymour, Drawings of Rembrandt, New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1965, vol. II, no. 351 ill. (ca. 1635-1645).

BENESCH Otto, The Drawings of Rembrandt, edited by Eva Benesch, London, 1973, vol. II, p. 96, no. 406, fig. 489.

BONNIER Henry, L’univers de Rembrandt, Paris: Screpel, 1975, p. 19,ill.

SCHATBORN P., Drawings by Rembrandt, his anonymous pupils and Followers, The Hague, 1985, p. 62, under no. 27.

Exhibitions

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Exposition d’œuvres de Rembrandt, May-June 1908, no. 413 (loan from L. Bonnat).

Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Le cabinet de l’amateur, February-April 1956, no. 134.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Rembrandt et son temps, Dessins des Collections publiques et privées conservées en France, February 3 - April 27, 1970, no. 152.

New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, May 4 - July 27, 1990; Jan Krugier Gallery, Geneva, April 25–June 15, 1991, Victor Hugo and The Romantic Vision, Drawings and Watercolors, p. 85, no. 1, ill. p. 27.

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, p. 88, no. 37, color ill. p. 89.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 106, no. 46, color ill. p. 107.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 150, no. 59, color ill. p. 151.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 132, no. 54, ill. p. 133.

Vienna, Albertina Museum, Goya bis Picasso. Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2005.

Munich, Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 110, no. 47, color ill. p. 111.

Request for information/loan

The Jan Krugier Foundation is devoted to increasing the impact of the collection of drawings through regular loans to major exhibitions. Loan applications should include a complete presentation of the project.