About This Artwork
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, attributed to
Dutch, 1606-1669
Female Nude Reclining with Arm Raisedc. 1665
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper
232 x 180 mm
Margaret Day Blake Collection, 1947.464
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, "Seventy Master Drawings," November 27, 1948-January 6, 1949, n.p., cat. 37.
Rotterdam, the Museum Boymans van Beuningen, "Rembrandt," May 18-August 5, 1956, pp. 170-171, cat. 235; traveled to Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, August 8-October 21, 1956.
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, "Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections," April 27-May 29, 1960, p. 52, cat. 72, pl. 64; traveled to New York, the Pierpont Morgan Library, March 15-April 16, 1960.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 31, pl. XII.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years," October 25-December 7, 1969, pp. 175-176 and 228 (ill.), cat. 136; traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, December 22, 1969-February 1, 1970, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, February 24-April 5, 1970.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 9 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Imaging the Body: From Fragment To Total Display," January 30-April 28, 1992, cat. by Barbara Maria Stafford, p. 28.
Publication History
The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 18 (February 1949), p. 12 (ill.)
Agnes Mongan, One Hundred Master Drawings (Cambridge, 1949), p. 92 (ill.).
Art News, 18 (December 1949), p. 50 (ill.).
Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt V (London, 1957), p. 304, no. 1127, fig. 1423.
J. G. van Gelder, Dutch Drawings and Prints (New York, 1959), no. 70 (ill.).
W. Scheidig, Rembrandt als Zeichner (Leipzig, 1962), p. 59 (ill.).
J. E. Muller, Rembrandt (Paris, 1968), p. 233-234.
Robert Hale and Terrence Coyle, Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters (1977), p. 140 (ill.).
Goldstein, Figure Drawing: The Structure, Anatomy, and Expressive Design of the Human Form, 6 ed. (2004).
Ownership History
M. [Lugt 1841, 1842]. Colnaghi, London, before 1947 [a letter from G. Mayer of Colnaghi dated April 14, 1948 indicates that they bought the picture from a bookseller in London]; sold to the Art Institute, 1947.