View of the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1647

...; collection Joseph Daniel Böhm (1794-1865), Vienna (L. 271 and L. 1442); his sale, Vienna (A.E. Posonyi), 4 December 1865 sqq., no. 1393 (‘Canalansicht mit Brücke, links hohe Häuser. Br. 6 Z., H. 3 Z. [15.8 x 7.9 cm] Geistvolle Kreideskizze’), 750 Austrian Schillings, to Remigius Adrianus Haanen [van Haanen] (1812-94), Vienna;{Copy RKD.} ? his student Hermine Lang-Laris (1842-1913), Munich; from whom purchased, with nine other drawings, by Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague, 1900;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB.} by whom donated to the museum, 1906, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum (L. 2228), 1930

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