An Elderly Man in Prayer
1660s or later
Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
European Painting and Sculpture
An Elderly Man in Prayer, 1660s or later. Follower of Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). Oil on canvas; framed: 119.4 x 106.7 x 15.9 cm (47 x 42 x 6 1/4 in.); unframed: 87.3 x 72 cm (34 3/8 x 28 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1967.16
- Maker/Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 119.4 x 106.7 x 15.9 cm (47 x 42 x 6 1/4 in.); Unframed: 87.3 x 72 cm (34 3/8 x 28 3/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed and dated at middle-right: "Rembrand[t]/ f.166[1]" (Last letter of name and last digit of date are no longer visible).
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1967.16
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1967, Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century, Re-presenting the Baroque, Study purposes for Rembrandt exhibition in May 2002, Study purposes/The Apostle Paul, Rembrandt Paintings in America, Harrach Gallery, Vienna from before 1904 to 1939.<br>Rembrandt und Seine Zeit, Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, 1949: no. 141.<br>Thirty-one paintings of the 15th-18th centuries from a Private Collection, Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, 1952: no. 22, (repr.)<br>Rembrandt Tentoonstellung, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, May-August 1956, Rotterdam, Boymans Museum, August-October 1956, cat. no. 89, repr. p. 182 (as a "Praying Apostle")<br>Munich, Alte Pinakothek (on loan, 1963)<br>The Year in Review for 1967, no. 63, The Cleveland Museum of Art.<br>Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years, Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 25- Dec. 7, 1969, no 19. <br>Dutch Art and Life in the Seveneteenth Century, The Cleveland Museum of Art, July 10- September 2, 1973. (no catalogue)<br>Gainesville, FL: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 10/97 - 4/19/98 Re-presenting the Baroque.(no catalogue)<br>North Carolina Museum of Art (10/30/2011 - 1/22/2012), The Cleveland Museum of Art (2/19/2012 - 5/28/2012), and Minneapolis Institute of Arts (6/24/2012 - 9/16/2012): "Rembrandt Paintings in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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