REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN | SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, HALF-LENGTH, WEARING A RUFF AND A BLACK HAT

Vinot sale, Paris (Mannheim, Chevalier), 26–30 January 1891, to Henry Robert Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden (according to a label on the reverse)

Thence by descent to Leila Emily, Viscountess Hampden, wife of Thomas Henry, 4th Viscount Hampden (d. 1965)

By whom anonymously sold ('The Property of a Lady'), London, Sotheby's, 8 April 1970, lot 20 (as Rembrandt), for £650 to Leegenhoek

J.O. Leegenhoek, Paris

By whom given to his wife

By whom sold in March 1996 to a private collector

By whom sold via Robert Noortman to a private collector, New York

By whom sold to Noortman Master Paintings

From whom acquired for the present collection on 20 September 2005

E. van de Wetering, Rembrandt: The Painter at Work, Amsterdam 1997, p. 4 and reproduced on the title page and inside the dust jacket

G. Schwartz, ‘De herijking van een Rembrandt’, in Het Financieele Dagblad, 5 November 1997, p. 2; and ‘Auteurschap versus kwaliteit in de nieuwe Rembrandt’, in Het Financieele Dagblad, 13 November 1997, p. 2; and in German ‘Holz vom selben Stamm: der Trend hat sich umgekehrt: wieder ein Neuzugang zum Werk Rembrandts’, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 November 1997, p. 41

P. Huys Janssen, 'Rembrandt en zijn werkplaats', in PAN Amsterdam: Art and Antiques Fair of the Low Countries. Catalogue of the annual art fair, Amsterdam 1998, p. 29, reproduced fig. 1

E. van de Wetering, in Rembrandt by himself (Rembrandt zelf), C. White and Q. Buvelot (eds), exh. cat., London 1999, pp. 148–49, no. 34, reproduced

T. Ketelsen in S. Giesen and T. Ketelsen, Rembrandt, oder nicht? Die Gemälde (published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg), Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, p. 9, reproduced p. 9, fig. 1.

E. van de Wetering (ed.), Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, vol. IV, Dordrecht 2005, pp. 199–206, 609–15, Addendum 1, reproduced p. 203, fig. 185, 610, figs 1–7

J. van der Veen, in F. Lammertse and J. van der Veen, Uylenburgh & Son, (published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London), Zwolle 2006, p. 135, reproduced p. 134, fig. 78

E. van de Wetering (ed.), Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, vol. VI, Dordrecht 2015, pp. 514–15, no. 69, reproduced p. 133, no. 69

E. van de Wetering, Rembrandt's Paintings Revisited, A Complete Survey, Dordrecht 2017, vol. 1 p. 133, no. 69, vol. 2, pp. 514-15, no. 69.

V. Manuth & M. de Winkel, Rembrandt, Cologne 2019, pp. 190, 606, no. 151, reproduced

V. Manuth & M. de Winkel, Rembrandt. The Self-Portraits, Cologne 2019, pp. 8, 76–77, reproduced, with detail

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 4–11 November 1997 (exhibition to promote the book Rembrandt: The Painter at Work)

London, National Gallery, Rembrandt by Himself, 9 June – 5 September 1999

The Hague, Mauritshuis, Rembrandt zelf, 25 September 1999 – 9 January 2000, no. 34