Old Man Leaning on a Stick, Rembrandt van Rijn (school of), c. 1635 - c. 1640

...; collection Chevalier Ignace-Joseph de Claussin (c. 1795/96-1844), Paris and London;{According to an inscription on the drawing.} ...; collection Étienne Desperet (1804-65), Lyon (L. 721); his sale, Paris (L. Clement), 7 (8) June 1865 sqq., no. 278, as Rembrandt, with one other drawing, 65 frs. for both, to William Mayor (? - 1874), London (L. 2799, effaced);{Copy RKD.} ...; collection Freiherr Max von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (1844-1925), Darmstadt (L. 2870); his sale, Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 25 May 1903 sqq., no. 240, DM 205, to Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB; copy RMA.} by whom donated to the museum, 1906, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum (L. 2228), 1930

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