The Swijgh Utrecht Tower in Amsterdam, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1650 - c. 1655

...; sale, Pieter Oets (1720-90, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (Yver et al.), 31 January 1791 sqq., Album G, no. 51 (‘Gezigt van den Doelen te Amsterdam, fiks met de Pen, door Rembrant’), with two other drawings; ...; sale, Jonkheer Alfred Montaldo Boreel (1849-1912, The Hague) et al., Amsterdam (F. Muller), 15 (17) June 1908 sqq., no. 488, fl. 50, unsold;{Copy RKD; note RMA.} from whom, fl. 200, to Frits Lugt on behalf of the dealer F. Muller;{Note RMA.} donated by Antonius Wilhelmus Mari Mensing (1866-1936), Amsterdam, to Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague (L. 561), 1910;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB.} his sale, Leipzig (C.G. Boerner), 4 November 1931, no. 182, DM 8,400, to the dealer P. Cassirer, Berlin and Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} ...; collection Dr Hans Wilhelm Christian Tietje (1885-?), Amsterdam, 1932;{Amsterdam 1932, p. 92, no. 304.} ...; collection Franz Wilhelm Koenigs (1881-1941), Haarlem, by 1956;{According to Rotterdam/Amsterdam 1956, pp. 144-45, no. 193.} his daughter, Adelheid Karoline Martha Boerlage née Koenigs (1922-2004), Laren;{Note RMA.} from whom purchased by the museum (L. 2228), with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Prins Bernardfonds, 1969

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