An old Woman called 'The Artist's Mother'
Possibly among the first paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn to leave the Netherlands (along with the Self-portrait in Long Gallery)
Sale Inventory c.1649-51
WS 265, №156
(Rembrandt)
Head of Old Woman
Walpole Society reference (1972):
Appraisal:
4-0-0
Sold to:
R [reserved]; Bass
Sale date:
19/12/1651 as 'Man's Head'
Appears in Charles II c1666:
Whitehall, № 276, 61 x 53
Identification certainty:
Identified