A Boy Trimming his Dog’s Coat, Abraham van Dijck (attributed to), c. 1650 - c. 1660

...; collection Émile-Louis-Dominique Calando (1840-99), Paris (L. 837); his sale, Paris (Roblin), 11 December 1899 sqq., no. 188, as Rembrandt van Rijn (‘Etudes de personages et d’animaux, quatre dessins à la plume et au lavis d’encre de chine. Des collections Joshua Reynolds, Richardson, Guichardot.’), with three other drawings, bought in;{According to an inscription on the drawing.} his son Émile-Pierre-Victor Calando (1872-1953), Paris (L. 426b);...; collection Eugène Rodrigues (1853-1929), Paris;{Note RMA.} ...; sale, Paul Mathey (1844-1929, Paris), Paris (Drouot), 28 November 1924, as Rembrandt van Rijn, frs. 3,800, to the dealer Marignane, Paris;{Copy RKD.} ...; collection Isaäc de Bruijn (1872-1953) and his wife, Johanna Geertruida de Bruijn-van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Spiez and Muri, near Bern;{Note RMA.} by whom donated to the museum (L. 2228), as school of Rembrandt, 1949, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum, 1960

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