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Provenance

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736–1810), Paris 1 ; Robert Lebel (1901–86), Paris, by 1968 2 ; with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, and Artemis Fine Art, London/New York, 2000; with Otto Naumann Ltd., New York, 2005, from whom acquired by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan with the permanent collection, 2006; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Drawing Life: The Dutch Visual Tradition , 2009–10, no. 7; Ithaca, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, An Eye For Detail: Dutch Painting from The Leiden Collection , 2015; Paris, Museé du Louvre, Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection: The Age of Rembrandt , 2017, no 33 (entry by Dominique Surh); Shanghai, Long Museum, West Bund, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals in the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection , 2017–18, no. 16; Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts; St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection, 2018-19, no. 55; Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age. Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection and the Musée du Louvre , 2019, no. 43; Amsterdam, H’ART Museum, From Rembrandt to Vermeer: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection , 2025, pp. 112-113

Literature

S. Slive, The Drawings of Rembrandt: A New Study, London 2009, pp. 124, 235 note 52; P. Schatborn, Rembrandt and His Circle: Drawings in the Frits Lugt Collection, 2 vols., Paris 2010, pp. 88, 89 note 9; M. Royalton-Kisch, Catalogue of Drawings by Rembrandt and His School in the British Museum, London 2010 (online), under no. 29, n. 4; M. Royalton-Kisch, The Drawings of Rembrandt. A Revision of Otto Benesch’s Catalogue Raisonné, online, ( https://rembrandtcatalogue.net/ ), under ‘Drawings Not in Benesch’, posted March 2013; Journal of National Museum of China 169, no. 8 (2017), reproduced back cover; P. Schatborn, 'Young Lion Resting', in The Leiden Collection Catalogue , 4th ed. Edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. and Elizabeth Nogrady with Caroline Van Cauwenberge, New York 2023– (online), https://theleidencollection.com/artwork/young-lion-resting/; L. van der Werff, '‘Seecker jonge leeuw’: Historische Datum 30 January 1657, Notaris Jacob de Winter', Alle Amsterdamse Akten, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam Stadsarchief, published October 3, 2018, http://alleamsterdamseakten.nl/artikel/1608/seecker-jonge-leeuw/; P. Schatborn and E. Hinterding, Rembrandt: The Complete Drawings and Etchings, Cologne 2019, pp. 19, 299, no. D474; J.N. Coutré, ed., Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges, exhib. cat., Kingston, Ontario, Agnes Etherington Art Center, and elsewhere, 2019, p. 193, under no. 98.

Catalog summary

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam) Young Lion Resting Black chalk and gray wash, heightened with white, on paper washed light brown 115 by 150 mm; 4½ by 5⅞ in. SOLD TO BENEFIT PANTHERA: THE WORLD'S LEADING CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION FOR WILD CATS Provenance Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736–1810), Paris 1 ; Robert Lebel (1901–86), Paris, by 1968 2 ; with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, and Artemis Fine Art, London/New York, 2000; with Otto Naumann Ltd., New York, 2005, from whom acquired by the present owner Exhibited New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan with the permanent collection, 2006; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Drawing Life: The Dutch Visual Tradition , 2009–10, no. 7; Ithaca, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, An Eye For Detail: Dutch Painting from The Leiden Collection , 2015; Paris, Museé du Louvre, Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection: The Age of Rembrandt , 2017, no 33 (entry by Dominique Surh); Shanghai, Long Museum, West Bund, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals in the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection , 2017–18, no. 16; Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts; St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection, 2018-19, no. 55; Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age. Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection and the Musée du Louvre , 2019, no. 43; Amsterdam, H’ART Museum, From Rembrandt to Vermeer: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection , 2025, pp. 112-113 Literature S. Slive, The Drawings of Rembrandt: A New Study, London 2009, pp. 124, 235 note 52; P. Schatborn, Rembrandt and His Circle: Drawings in the Frits Lugt Collection, 2 vols., Paris 2010, pp. 88, 89 note 9; M. Royalton-Kisch, Catalogue of Drawings by Rembrandt and His School in the British Museum, London 2010 (online), under no. 29, n. 4; M. Royalton-Kisch, The Drawings of Rembrandt. A Revision of Otto Benesch’s Catalogue Raisonné, online, ( https://rembrandtcatalogue.net/ ), under ‘Drawings Not in Benesch’, posted March 2013; Journal of National Museum of China 169, no. 8 (2017), reproduced back cover; P. Schatborn, 'Young Lion Resting', in The Leiden Collection Catalogue , 4th ed. Edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. and Elizabeth Nogrady with Caroline Van Cauwenberge, New York 2023– (online), https://theleidencollection.com/artwork/young-lion-resting/; L. van der Werff, '‘Seecker jonge leeuw’: Historische Datum 30 January 1657, Notaris Jacob de Winter', Alle Amsterdamse Akten, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam Stadsarchief, published October 3, 2018, http://alleamsterdamseakten.nl/artikel/1608/seecker-jonge-leeuw/; P. Schatborn and E. Hinterding, Rembrandt: The Complete Drawings and Etchings, Cologne 2019, pp. 19, 299, no. D474; J.N. Coutré, ed., Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges, exhib. cat., Kingston, Ontario, Agnes Etherington Art Center, and elsewhere, 2019, p. 193, under no. 98.