Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels
Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)
Framed Painting
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Date: Size: Oil on canvas (signed) “Seated Woman Cooking”
Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels (according to specialists) Rembrand Van Rijn (1606 - 1669) 1650 aprox 125.6 cm x 94 cm
Summary
Summary
Since 1981, this painting has been owned by Francisco Reyes Manzano. It was acquired, together with an important art collection, from Gonzalo Córdova Lara, a Spanish/Guatemalan citizen and direct descendant of Álvaro Guzmán de Lara, Spanish Prime Minister in times of Alfonso XII (king of Spain 1875 - 1895).
The painting has been authenticated on several occasions; among them, twice by Mr. Shehbaz Safrani, a prestigious curator residing in New York City and whose vast Curriculum vitae, as well as contact information, are available upon request. In 2005, the painting was electronically analyzed (using a digital tomography) by European curators (the results of these studies are not available, due to the fact that they belong to a buyer who withdrew from the purchasing transaction).
The painting, wich belonged to the painter's personal collection, is a representation of his companion: Hendrickje Stoffels -already of a certain age- whom he portrayed on several occasions during his life as can be ascertained in books of Rembrandt.
On october 15th, 1996, a purchase intent transaction involving the painting was concluded and the painting itself escrowed at Almacenes Nacionales de Depósitos for 75% of its total worth (at the exchage rate then in force), as per the operating rules of said institution. The operation in question was cancelled due to a baseless accusation against the owner related to tax evasion on the part of the Ministry of Finance, wich then proceeded to seize the painting. This triggered a trial, wich lasted almost four years and concluded with the painting returning to its rightful owner (all documents demonstrating the legal ownership of the painting exists and are available).
The painting is available to any party seriously interested in purchasing it; any such party is welcome to submit it to authentication by qualified Rembrandt experts.
Current State
Note: Photographed
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Related Documents: Autenticity
Original Receipt
Transcript & Translation
Recibí del Sr Don Francisco Reyes Manzano en efectivo y a mi entera satisfacción la cantidad de $1,400,000.00* (Un millón cuatro cientos mil pesos, MN) por la venta total de una pintura, óleo sobre tela que mide 1.19 x .80 mts (1.25 x .90mts) de mi única y exclusiva propiedad.
La referida pintura representa a una mujer rolliza, tocada con un gorro blanco, y cubierta con un manto llamado mantelote de pelo de camello, y un bestido en tono de color verde uniforme, propio del estilo o la usanza Holandeza del siglo XVII en actitud de cocinar sobre un anafre o anafe.
Esta pintura está firmada al pie en la parte izquierda del lienzo; "Rembrandt 1653"
La mencionada pintura la adquirí de mis Señores abuelos, Don Álvaro Guzmán de Lara y de la Señora Doña María Carlota Dardón de Lara por razones de herencia.
Para seguridad del interesado Señor Don Francisco Reyes Manzano, le extiendo la presente a manera de recibo previa escritura notarial en la Ciudad de México, D.F. a 29 deJulio de 1981.
Gonzalo Córdova L.
I received from Don Francisco Reyes Manzano in cash and to my entire satisfaction the amount of $1,400,000.00* (One million four hundred thousand Mexican pesos) for the total sale of a painting oil on canvas measuring 1.19 x .80 mts (1.25 x .90mts) of my sole and exclusive property.
The referred painting represents a plump woman, wearing a white hat and covered with a type of cloak knows as camel fur cloth and an even colored green dress, typical of Dutch usage in the XVII century depicted cooking over a portable stove.
This painting is signed at the bottom left of the canvas; "Rembrandt 1653".
I acquired the aforementioned painting from my grandparents, Don Álvaro Guzmán de Lara and Mrs. María Carlota Dardón de Lara as inheritance.
For security purposes of the interested party Mr. Francisco Reyes Manzano, I am issuing this receipt pending a final certificate from a Notary public.
Mexico City, July 29th, 1981
Gonzalo Córdova L. Esta cantidad representa el saldo por el precio total pagado por la pintura.
* This amount is the last installment of the total price of the painting.
Appraisal
For insurance purposes only
“Seated Woman Cooking”
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Safrani's CV & appraisal certificate
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Certificate of deposit
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Laboratory studies page 1/14
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Notarized certificate of property & no pending incumbrance
Certificate of property
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Supplementary information for the purpose of showing that the Rembrandt painting that concerns us was part of the important collection belonging to the Córdova Lara Family.
Certificate of property
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Supplementary information for the purpose of showing that the Rembrandt painting that concerns us was part of the important collection belonging to the Córdova Lara Family.
Certificate of property
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Supplementary information for the purpose of showing that the Rembrandt painting that concerns us was part of the important collection belonging to the Córdova Lara Family.
Other portraits of Hendrickje Stoffels by Rembrandt van Rijn
Complementary information
Other portraits of Hendrickje Stoffels by Rembrandt van Rijn
Bathsheba
Hendrickje Stoffels, 1664 ?
oil on canvas, Louvre Paris
Hendrickje lived in Rembrandt's house from approximately 1647, at first as a maid, but fast becoming much more. In 1649 Hendrickje returned to Bredevoort for the summer (possibly with Rembrandt accompanying her), and is there mentioned as a witness to a christening mentioned in the Bredevoorts church records. The Eighty Year War was past and peace was finally reaching even the eastern Netherlands. There are several paintings of Rembrandt for wich she is suspected to have modelled.
In 1654 Hendrickje had to appear before the church council for "living in sin" with Rembrandt, who was a widower and 20 years her senior. That she was not only his maid was patently obvious, for she was pregnant with his daughter. On 30 October 1654, Cornelia van Rijn was baptized in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.
Rembrandt did not want to marry Hendrickje, because then he would forfeit the inheritance of his first wife Saskia van Uylenburgh -even with that inheritance he had major financial problems, but without it he would be bankrupt. Hendrickje wanted to strike up a friendship with Titus, Rembrandt's and Saskia's son, and -when Rembrandt's problems worsened- she and Titus came up with the idea of an art dealership run by them, only stocking paintings by Rembrandt. Titus appointed his half sister Cornelia as his heir.
In 1663, a plague epidemic hit Amsterdam, and Hendrickje died of it. She was buried in the Westerkerk in Amsterdam on 24 July 1663.
A woman in bed
Hendrickje Stoffels ?
c. 1645
oil on canvas
81.1 x 67.8 cm.
National Gallery of Scotland,
Edinburgh
Flora
Hendrickje Stoffels
c. 1656
oil on canvas
100 x 91.8 cm.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Hendrickje Stoffels ?
c. 1654 - 59
oil on canvas
101.9 x 83.7 cm.
National Gallery, London
A woman bathing
Hendrickje Stoffels ?
c. 1654
oil on canvas
61.8 x 47 cm.
National Gallery, London
A woman at an open door
Hendrickje Stoffels ?
c. 1656 - 1657
oil on canvas
88.5 x 67 cm.
Germaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Portrait of a young woman
Hendrickje Stoffels ?
c. 1655
oil on canvas
65.5 x 54 cm.
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
Hendrickje Stoffels
Hendrickje Stoffels ?
c. 1654
oil on canvas
72 x 60 cm. Louvre, Paris Juno
Hendrickje Stoffels ?
c. 1662 - 1665
oil on canvas
127 x 123.8 cm.
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Hendrickje Stoffels ?
c. 1660
oil on canvas
78.4 x 68.9 cm.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
