About This Artwork

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Dutch, 1606-1669

Kostverloren Castle in Decay, 1652/57

Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper
109 x 175 mm
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1961.49

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, "Rembrandt," August 8-October 21, 1956, cat. 173; traveled to Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, May 18-August 5, 1956.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 30, pl. 13a.

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, "Rembrandt 1669/1969," September 13-November 30, 1969, cat. 127.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 80-81, cat. 31 (ill.), by Martha Tedeschi.

Boston, Mass., Museum of Fine Art Boston, "Rembrandt's Journey: Painter - Draftsman - Etcher," October 26, 2003-January 18, 2004; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 14-May 9, 2004.

Publication History

E. Michel, Rembrandt (Paris, 1893), p. 579.

C. Hofstede de Groot, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts (Haarlem, 1906), no. 320.

F. Lippman and Hofstede de Groot, Original Drawings by Rembrandt, IV (The Hague, 1911), no. 23.

M. Eisler, Rembrandt als Landschafter (Munich, 1918), pp. 86-87 (ill.).

Frits Lugt, Mit Rembrandt in Amsterdam (Berlin, 1920), pp. 107-12 (ill.).

Hermann Friese, K. Lilienfeld, and Heinrich Wichmann, Rembrandts Handzeichnungen, III (Dresden, 1925), no. 128.

Otto Benesch, Rembrandt Werk und Forschung (Vienna, 1935), p. 47.

Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt (London, 1957), no. 1270 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1960-1961), p. 19 (ill.).

The Art Quarterly (Autumn 1961), p. 306 (ill.).

Seymour Slive, Drawings by Rembrandt, II (New York, 1965), no. 466 (ill.).

Ownership History

King Friedrich August II of Saxony (died 1854), Dresden, and by descent, to at least 1925 [Lugt 971; Friese, Lilienfeld, and Wichmann 1925]. W. J. R. Dreesman (died 1954), Amsterdam, by 1954 [Amsterdam 1956]; sold, F. Muller & Co., March 22-25, 1960, lot 26, to Richard Zinser, New York; sold to the Art Institute, 1961.