REMBRANDT VAN RYN (1607-1669) A YOUNG PAINTER Canvas, 35 1/8 inches by 44 3/4 inches, strip 5 1/2 inches joined

AGED about five and twenty, turned to the right, seated at a table with a red cover, and looking at the spectator; with his left hand he holds some loose sheets of paper before him; his right hand, in which he grasps a pencil, rests on the edge of the table. On his long dark brown hair he wears a broad-brimmed hat, entwined with a trail of blossom, which throws a shadow over the upper part of his face. Closely clipped moustache. He is dressed in a full black coat over a golden green doublet, with a plain white collar and cuffs to match." —Quoted from Dr. Bode's "Rembrandt," Vol. V, p. 365.

Signed at the upper right, below the strip of canvas that has been added, "Rembrandt f. 1647."

Various hypotheses as to the identity of the sitter, sometimes erroneously called Leonhard Bramer, have no secure basis.

Reference to this picture is also made in Smith's catalog Raisonne, Part VII., No. 388, and Dutuit (Supplement), p. 43, No. 314, Wurzbach, No. 164, "singularly noble in expression and action and admirably painted in a light golden tone." Mich, pp. 382, 555; also Waagen's "Art Treasures," Vol. II., p. 280.

Exhibited at the Amsterdam, 1898, No. 70. Exhibited at the New York Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909. Exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1910. Collection: Aved, Paris, 1766. Collection: Earl of Carlisle, Castle Howard, Yorkshire.

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