Seated Actor in the Role of Capitano, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1634 - c. 1636

...; purchased from the dealer R. Dunthorne, London, by Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague, 1909;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB.} his sale, Leipzig (C.G. Boerner), 4 November 1931, no. 168 (‘Ein Schauspielerkönig auf seinem Thron, ein Mann mit einem Beutel kniet vor ihm. Rückseitig ein stehender Schauspieler, eine Geste machend, nach rechts zu einem Manne gewandt, von dem nur Oberkörper gezeichnet ist.’), 6,600 DM, to the dealer P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London;{Copy RKD.} ...; collection Isaac de Bruijn (1872-1953) and his wife, Johanna Geertruida de Bruijn-van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Spiez and Muri, near Bern, by 1932;{Amsterdam 1932, no. 247.} by whom donated to the museum, 1949, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum, 1960

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