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ESTABLISHED, 1846.
M. KNOEDLER & Co.
SUCCESSORS TO
GOUPIL & Co.
3555 FIFTH AVENUE Cor 34TH STREET.
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Publishers & Dealers in Works of Art,
Paintings, WaterColors, Etchings & Engravins,
Artist & Appropriate Framings.
PARIS OFFICE.
23 PLACE VENDÔME.
LONDON OFFICE,
15 OLD BOND ST.
New York, January 16, 1907
Sold to Mr. H. C. Frick.
640 Fifth Ave
117 1 Ptg by Rembrandt H. Van Rijn. $225.000-
"Rembrandt seated with a stick in his left hand" Red Book 83 #151
About fifty years old, seated, facing and
looking at the spectator. In a full yellow
gabardine, with a red sash, a brown
cloak with a white neckcloth, and gold
embroidered shoulder-straps.
On his head he wears a dark cap,
under which a brown skull-cap is visible.
He has a short moustache; in his left
hand he holds a stick with a silver knob.
Dark background.
Life size, three-quarters length.
Signed on the knob of the chair: Rembrandt, 1658.
Exhibited in London, British Institution, 1815.
" British Gallery, 1824.
" Burlington House, 1889.
Smith No 225; Michel, pp 434, 558.
Noes, Icon, Bat., No 6693.58
Ill. Dr Bode, Rembrandt page 88
Earl of Ilchester's Coll, Melbury Park, England

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