Lion Resting

17th century

Medium	pen and brown ink and brown wash over light sketch in black chalk on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 4 1/8 x 7 15/16 in. (10.5 x 20.2 cm)
Object Number	1955.1697
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

School of Rembrandt van Rijn, Lion Resting, 17th century, pen and brown ink and brown wash over light sketch in black chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1697

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Emile Michel.. Rembrandt, son oeuvre et son temps.. Paris.. 1893.. Cornelis Hofstede de Groot.. Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts.. Haarlem: E. F. Bohn.. 1906.. . Scholastic Teacher.. Nov. 8, 1961..

Provenance

Sir W. W. Knighton, London; J. P. Heseltine, London (L. 1507, on reverse);* Colnaghi, London (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1917). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.