Road Along a Canal
Ausstellung von Meisterwerken alter Malerei aus Privatbesitz, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 1926, no. 368d.
Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, March 15-April 16, 1960; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 27-May 29, 1960, no. 51.
Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as Road Along a Canal.
Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 17-March 25, 1990, no cat., as Road Along a Canal.
Städtische Bibliothek, Mainz, Germany, by 1892;
Transferred from the Städtische Bibliothek to the Städtische Gemäldegalerie, Mainz, Germany, 1892-1938 [1];
Exchanged by the Städtische Gemäldegalerie with the dealer Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Lucerne, Switzerland, 1938 [2];
John H. Bender (1884-1963), Kansas City, MO, by 1960 [3];
Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1960.
NOTES:
[1] The Städtische Gemäldegalerie is now the Landesmuseum Mainz. According to Dr. Norbert Suhr, Dept. of Drawings and Prints, Landesmuseum Mainz, in a letter to Gregory Rubinstein, Sotheby’s London, January 22, 1997, this drawing was one of four by Rembrandt that were transferred to the Städtische Gemäldegalerie from the city library in 1892 and exchanged with Gilhofer & Ranschberg in 1938 for “a relief by Carl Theodor van Dalberg and a set of china.” A copy of Suhr’s letter was provided to the Nelson-Atkins by Sheldon Peck and is in the Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
[2] Ibid. According to a history of the Gilhofer & Ranschburg firm published on their website (www.gilburg.com), the firm’s Lucerne branch ceased operations from 1938 until 1956.
[3] John Bender was the owner of Alden Galleries.
Georg Swarzenski, ed., Ausstellung von Meisterwerken alter Malerei aus Privatbesitz, exh. cat. (Frankfurt am Main: Städelsches Kunstinstitut, 1926).
Rudolf Schrey, Stift und Feder, vol. 5 (Frankfurt am Main: Städelsches Kunstinstitut, 1930), (repro.).
Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt: A Critical and Chronological Catalogue, vol. 6, The Late Period: 1650-1669 (London: Phaidon, 1954), no. 1350, (repro.).
Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat. (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1960), (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 181, (repro.), as Road Along a Canal.
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 7, 11, 25, (repro.), as Road Along a Canal.
