Reclining Lion, Rembrandt van Rijn (school of), c. 1660

Inv.; …; sale, Dr. August Straeter (1810-98, Aachen), Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 10 (14) May 1898 sqq., no. 1181, as Rembrandt, 1020 mark, to Arnold;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Fürst Franz Josef II von und zu Liechtenstein (1906-89), Vienna, 1906, 1936;{Hofstede de Groot 1906a, p. 354, no. 1511; Old Master Drawings (43) 1936, pp. 51-2 and plate 47.} from whom, with 288 other objects, to the dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zürich, 1947;{Feilchenfeldt 2015, p. 137.} from whom, fl. 2,000, to the museum, 1948

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