Portrait of a Woman
The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
Museum

Portrait of a Woman

1635 or earlier
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) visual detail
ArtistRembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
View artist →

Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price—0 matched observed sales
Observed median—
Observed sales0
Artist index—
No rights-cleared normalized observed sale is attached to this artwork. No synthetic price history is shown.
Artist index unavailableNo completed public artist-index build exists.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
No public-rights comparable sales meet the current evidence criteria. RELICT does not fill the table with research-only or licensed-only facts.

Provenance

Public
Provenance event

Capo de Lista family collection (?) (Padua, Italy)

Provenance event

Barbini-Breganze coll., Venice (1847) cat. no. 204;

Provenance event

Städelsches Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (inv. no. 927), 1847 to 1882;

Provenance event

sold, Paris, May 5, 1882, no. 30;

Provenance event

Charles Sedelmeyer (Paris, France);

Provenance event

Karl von der Heydt (Berlin, Germany) (1906);

Provenance event

A.B. Antik (Stockholm, Sweden)

Source provenance text

Capo de Lista family collection (?) (Padua, Italy) Barbini-Breganze coll., Venice (1847) cat. no. 204; Städelsches Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (inv. no. 927), 1847 to 1882; sold, Paris, May 5, 1882, no. 30; Charles Sedelmeyer (Paris, France); Karl von der Heydt (Berlin, Germany) (1906); A.B. Antik (Stockholm, Sweden) consigned to Knoedler & Co. (New York, and London, England, 1919); sold to Elisabeth Severance Prentiss (Cleveland, Ohio), in exchange for John Hoppner, Portrait of Mrs. Jermingham and Herman Kricheldorf, Still-Life with Lobster, 1919, upon her death, held in trust by the estate Estate of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.

The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%

Exhibitions

Public
Source exhibition text

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955). Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). Rembrandt: His Teachers and Pupils. Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura City, Japan (organizer) (June 13-August 2, 1992). Rembrandt Rembrandt. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (organizer) (November 3, 2002-January 13, 2003). Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29-July 8, 2007). Rembrandt in America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 19-May 28, 2012); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (June 24-September 16, 2012). Exhibition of Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (November 1947- January 1948). Old Masters, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH March-April 1948). Haggin Memorial Galleries, Stockton, California, 1948. Benefit Exhibition of Paintings by Rembrandt, Wildenstein & Co., 1950. Masterpiece Series, Akron Art Institute, April 14- May 17, 1953. Man and His Years, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1954, p. 15, no. 81. Chiba, Japan, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 1992: cat. no. ?. Three Hundred Paintings by Old Masters. Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, France (1898). Austellung von Weken Alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz der Mitglieder des K. Friderich Museums-- Vereins, Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, Germany (January 27-March 4, 1906).

The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Related public works

Visual neighbours

Explore catalog →

Sourced Overview Evidence

At the age of 25, Rembrandt moved from his hometown of Leiden to the bustling city of Amsterdam. Within a few years he had become one of the city’s most successful portrait painters, creating remarkably vivid likenesses that seemed to express the personality and soul of the sitter. Here, Rembrandt used smooth, fluid brushstrokes to recreate the soft texture of the woman’s skin. In contrast, thicker, more textured strokes draw attention to the lavish display of her lace collar and gold jewelry—details sure to please a wealthy client. The extraordinary demand at that time for a portrait by Rembrandt meant that in many cases (including, probably, this painting) he called upon assistants to help complete the work.

The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%

Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 10 structured provenance events · 8 structured exhibitions.

Place Of OriginShort DescriptionProvenance TextExhibition HistoryCredit Line